Alexis Kenyon

Kroger executives have testified in Denver District Court in defense of their $25 billion merger with Albertsons arguing that the merger would help them compete with retail giants like Walmart and Costco. Colorado AG Phil Weiser argued that the grocery store consolidation would further strain farmers across Colorado, who already operate on razor thin margins.

Fort Garland in the San Luis Valley was built to protect and help early white settlers colonize the American West. Buffalo soldiers: reVision, an exhibit by History Colorado, seeks to reframe the story of Fort Garland to also include the stories of Native people, and the hundreds of formerly enslaved Black Buffalo soldiers who lived and served there in the late 1800s.

The proposed merger between the country’s two largest grocery chains drew a packed house in Denver on Wednesday. U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan joined Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and members of the public for what was billed as 'a community listening session.'

In the aftermath of the Marshall Fire, an outpouring of donations flooded to victims who lost everything to the largest wildfire in Colorado history. The Community Foundation, a Boulder nonprofit, took up the reins for collecting these donations which amounted to about $43 million. It is more than many communities get after a natural disaster, but only about 2 percent of the Marshall Fire’s destruction.

Weather in the Arctic is getting so weird that researchers are changing the grading system.

State Ballot Proposition 121 asks Colorado voters if they would like to decrease the state income tax rate. Supporters say the cut will put money into people’s pockets. Opponents say the tax decrease is actually a tax increase for most Coloradans. They are asking voters to weigh in on another measure, Proposition GG which will add a table to all income tax-related ballot measures in an effort to clarify how taxpayers will affect different socioeconomic groups.

Dr. Daniel Kaffine, a professor of economics and a fellow at the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute at CU Boulder, discusses increased tax incentives and the substantial price decrease in the past 10 years that is incentivizing more people to install solar panels on their homes.

This November, voters in Colorado will weigh in on a ballot measure to fund universal school meals for public school students in the state. The funding for the so-called Healthy School Meals For All measure would come via a limit on state income tax deductions for those earning more than $300,000.

Thousands of people came out to two separate rallies in support of reproductive rights at the state capitol in Denver this week.