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Joe Hanel
Position: Staff reporter
Phone Number: (303), 839-1765

State air-quality board to tackle gas-and-oil pollution

DENVER – Colorado gas and oil companies could soon face some of the country’s strictest air quality rules. The state air quality board expects to meet four or five days starting W...

Food tax credit advances in House

DENVER – Farmers would get a tax break, and needy people would get healthy food, thanks to a bill advanced by a Durango legislator Monday. Rep. Mike McLachlan’s bill was an easy s...

State won’t act on Mercy’s abortion policy

ACLU requested investigation into doctor’s conversation with patient

GOP’s 2014 gun battle appears to misfire

DENVER – The debate over guns all but ended at the state Legislature on Wednesday, and it didn’t go out with a bang. For the third time in three days, Democrats killed Republican ...

Tipton faces Pueblo challenger

McFayden announces election bid

GOP fails to shoot down gun laws

DENVER – The first Republican attempt to repeal last year’s gun laws failed Monday. The hearing was carefully scripted on both sides, and the outcome was never in doubt. ...

Measure to limit drivers prone to seizures fails

DENVER – Rep. Don Coram got no traction Tuesday with his effort to keep drivers prone to seizures off the road. Coram, R-Montrose, was spurred a Denver-area accident caused by a d...

Bill holds promise of tuition for tribes

DENVER – Native Americans from 48 tribes would be eligible for in-state college tuition anywhere in Colorado under a bill that advanced Wednesday at the Legislature. Rep. Joe Sala...

New ‘Amazon tax’ bill unveiled

Democrats confident of Internet tax

Past and present election bills roil Republicans

DENVER – Republicans stepped up their opposition Monday to the new election system Democrats ushered in last year, calling for a two-year timeout just as school boards are gearing up for the...

Past and present election bills roil Republicans

DENVER - Republicans stepped up their opposition Monday to the new election system Democrats ushered in last year, calling for a two-year timeout just as school boards are gearing up for the...

Republicans lose effort to shoot down gun laws

DENVER - The first Republican attempt to repeal last year's gun laws failed Monday. The hearing was carefully scripted on both sides, and the outcome was never in doubt. ...