The epidemic’s proportional cost to rural counties in human and fiscal terms is enormous compared to urban areas. 

Proponents of net neutrality say it is essential to economic and educational opportunity—and good health—and are gearing up for a long battle to reinstate it.

In the first year of implementation, virtually all people exercising their right to die were white, already in hospice care and living in the Front Range.

Farmers and ranchers face some of the highest rates of suicide. Can a new push for mental health services in rural Colorado help?

Debtors’ prison-like practices are rife in Colorado city courts, according to a recent report, and those living in poverty bear the brunt of them.

Congress just failed to reauthorize Child Health Plan Plus and other health-related funding. Here’s what that could mean in Colorado. 

Broadband internet access is still lacking in much of rural Colorado, with serious impacts on education, income and health prospects for residents.

Colorado’s multi-year minimum wage increase is now underway, and researchers and policymakers will be closely monitoring its impacts on health and well-being.

Colorado voters overwhelmingly approved the state’s new aid-in-dying statute. But fair and equal access to such rights under the law already appears unlikely.