Colorado’s more than 900,000 public school students learned March 12 that schools would close for at least an extended spring break. It was an abrupt change and not everyone adapted quickly or easily.

Colorado Shakespeare Festival that due to the coronavirus it would no longer continue its 2020 summer season at CU Boulder.

Anyone wanting to buy or sell a home in metro Denver this year needs to buckle up and prepare for a wild ride in the months ahead.

The 4,600-acre estate along the White River sits near Meeker in Rio Blanco County, and was owned for nearly 30 years by billionaire Henry Kravis, co-founder of KKR & Co.

When FanDuel asked, Will the Broncos Make the Playoffs?, 97% of the weekend action among Colorado bettors was on “Yes.” These days, if you can’t trust your heart, trust your gut.

Jet pilots from the Colorado Air National Guard will do flyovers across the state Wednesday evening to salute people fighting on the front lines of the war against COVID-19, authorities said.

Sports fans starved to watch actual competition might be given a reprieve in July with the 2020 edition of The Basketball Tournament.

Metro district developers and home builders in Colorado are major campaign contributors to elected officials where they have developments. Developer Pat Hamill of Oakwood Homes is a major contributor, no more so than the Ebert Metropolitan District in Denver where his company is its developer.

As state officials close countless public gathering places to slow the spread of the coronavirus, cities and towns across Colorado are leveraging the latest technology to continue doing the people's business -- though the efforts at virtual democracy haven't come without fits and starts. Municipalities across Colorado have long broadcast or live-streamed public meetings on the web or on a local cable channel, but recent unprecedented crowd control measures prompted by the pandemic have forced local officials to scramble to keep city and county agendas intact while not violating the requirements of the state's open meetings laws.

Vail Resorts informed the state this week that it has furloughed nearly 2,000 workers effective Monday at its various ski resorts, lodges and hotels, equipment rental stores and shuttle service.

Virtual Easter egg hunts may not be as exciting as squealing kids racing to snatch colorfully decorated prizes off the ground, but they'll do in a pinch.

Colorado State Patrol will crack down on illegal parking on Loveland and Berthoud passes, the agency said Thursday, days after a video showing scores of cars parked back-to-back along the road went viral amid concerns that the drivers were failing to appropriately social distance.

Plus, Colorado Parks and Wildlife closed all of its campgrounds.

Fuel prices in Colorado dropped to an average of $1.85 per gallon, as people cut work commutes, vacations and other travel amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Weather forecasters issued a winter weather travel alert and have urged people to only venture out into snowy, slushy roads if it is essential.

Coloradans should only recreate within 10 miles of their homes, governor says.

If your arms are starting to look puny, we feel you.

Gold's Gym filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week and 24 Hour Fitness is exploring the same option.

After extending the ban a few weeks at a time, state parks decided to just leave the ban up indefinitely.

Van lifers are used to wandering the roads. But now, they're stuck in one spot -- and trying to not draw attention to themselves.

Critics of a plan that makes tracts of public lands in western Colorado available to oil and gas drilling say the final insult is its release in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic when people are dealing with health and economic concerns.

Colorado will delay hearings on a major revamp of its oil and gas regulations by about six weeks, even as concerns mount about how much of the state's petroleum industry will be left to regulate.

Weld County oil jobs are disappearing amid the double whammy of the coronavirus pandemic and a global oil price war.

In 44 seasons as Eaton's head coach from 1972 to 2015, Danley was 807-163-2, a Colorado-best for wins and tied for the nation's top prep winning percentage (83.1%).

Drafted into the Army in 1969 during the Vietnam War, Johnson's first baseball coaching job was managing the 2nd Armored Division for two years on base in Fort Hood, Texas.

Denver Post journalists joined colleagues from more than 40 news organizations across Colorado in a collaborative effort, COVID diaries Colorado: A day in the pandemic.

"The big questions of the day for the workers is, 'I don’t feel safe. Do I have to go back to work?'" a Colorado Department of Labor and Employment official said Monday. "And, as with everything with unemployment, it depends."

The final stage of re-opening under Colorado's "safer at home" coronavirus protocols is set for Monday, when offices across the state will be allowed to bring employees back under strict limitations.

U.S. withdrawal from the international agreement to combat global warming, along with rule rollbacks, have slowed momentum that once inspired emulators abroad.

Mountain lions face an uncertain future under a new state plan to let hunters kill up to 15% a year across western Colorado, and more near subdivisions -- rankling animal rights advocates who favor a live-and-let-live approach to wildlife.

Nearly 3.2 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week as the business shutdowns caused by the viral outbreak deepened the worst U.S. economic catastrophe in decades.

The 4,600-acre estate along the White River sits near Meeker in Rio Blanco County, and was owned for nearly 30 years by billionaire Henry Kravis, co-founder of KKR & Co.

So far, state labor officials have opened investigations into 150 instances of workers being called back to their workplaces or being offered new jobs and refusing, choosing instead to continue requesting unemployment benefits because of coronavirus-related concerns.

Legal sports gambling comes to Colorado on May 1, and despite the absence of most major league competitions, several sportsbooks are ready to bring wagering entertainment to Centennial State residents.

Curl up and enjoy a good book.

Restaurants, bars, fitness centers and movie theaters are among businesses that are not allowed to reopen.

The new numbers came as parts of the state began gradually reopening, including allowing in-person shopping at non-essential retail stores.

Retail stores, hair salons, tattoo parlors and pet grooming services are among a handful of industries allowed to begin operations Friday in much of Colorado.

The Denver Post would like to interview you, the 2008/2009 graduate, and you, the 2020 graduate. We would love to hear the 2008/2009 graduate share what it was like being thrust into an economically fraught time, what that experience taught you and where you went from there.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser on Wednesday forcefully pushed back on new federal campus sexual assault rules which would bolster the rights of the accused, promising to fight the U.S. Department of Education in court.

The decades of disinvestment have placed Colorado universities in a precarious financial position with little margin to maneuver through the coronavirus pandemic. Students are already considering whether to stay home next fall. Raising tuition could cause enrollment to dip further, putting in jeopardy colleges’ main revenue source.

As schools across Colorado closed in March to slow the spread of coronavirus, food service directors and cafeteria workers swung into action, setting up an extensive network that has handed out hundreds of thousands of meals, many of them to families short on food for the first time.

Don't take it to the bank, but it is starting to look like the last flakes have flown across much of Colorado for the winter.

The Loveland man who was arrested after the FBI discovered four homemade pipe bombs in his house served 13 years with the Colorado National Guard in special forces and rose to the rank of captain. 

Gov. Jared Polis took a hopeful, if cautious, look forward Tuesday night at a world in which COVID-19 is no longer a raging force that is occupying the minds and psyches of almost everyone in Colorado.

While no one is arguing that a handmade face covering will ever work as effectively as a medical-grade mask, an increasing number of infectious disease experts and politicians are arguing that some sort of barrier is better than nothing.

Gov. Jared Polis has recently made working with Colorado's neighboring states part of his strategy to emerge from the grip of the coronavirus contagion, mentioning cross-border collaboration more than once during his daily COVID-19 press briefings last week. But the governor has acknowledged that states surrounding Colorado "have different policies" with "different trajectories of the infection."

Dr. Comilla Sasson has learned many lessons on the front lines of COVID-19, including how to stay positive

“We’re just really scared and there's no protections and there's no testing, and we’re just continually exposed.”

Glimmers of normal life twinkled ever so faintly in parts of Colorado on Monday as the state became one of the first in the country to lift its stay-at-home order.