Following a summer that saw destructive wildfires sweep through Larimer and Boulder Counties, Sen. Janice Marchman, D-Loveland, who represents the Estes Valley, is sponsoring a pair of bills that would address fire mitigation and emergency information.Listen to story on the EVV Podcast here:One would make it easier to carry out prescribed burns on private land. The other would consolidate emergency information and county wildfire updates into an existing state website.Both bills result from Marc...

DENVER — In a special session of the State Legislature lawmakers passed a bipartisan package of bills that will cut property taxes for all Colorado homeowners for the 2025 tax year. The bills result from negotiations between Gov. Jared Polis, bipartisan state leaders, and conservative backers of Ballot Initiatives 50 and 108. The measures would have significantly reduced tax revenues for state and local government budgets.House Bill 24B-1001 lowers the property tax limit for local governments ex...

Less than two weeks after the Sundance Film Festival announced its 2027 move from Utah to Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis signed HB25-1005, a new refundable tax incentive bill that will support the film industry in Colorado.The bill creates two refundable tax credits. One will provide the Sundance Film Festival with $34 million in incentives doled out over the next decade. The other will provide $500,000 annually to support small film festivals in the Centennial State.In 2024, nearly 73,000 people at...