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Dave Williams’ election as Colorado GOP chair has prompted prominent Republicans to announce they are leaving the party and heightened the possibility that unaffiliated Coloradans, who make up nearly half of the state’s electorate, could be shut out of the GOP’s future primaries. Mandy Connell, a conservative talk radio host, tweeted her exit from the GOP on Saturday just after Williams, a 2020 election denier and former state representative, was chosen to lead Republicans for the next two years.

Alocalranchowner,whoenteredintoalongterm lease agreement with Colorado Parks and Wildlife that will expand public access to Fishers Peak State Park, has shared why the ranch entered into the agreement.

The Trinidad Police Department responded to or initiated some 249calls for service between Thursday, March 9, and Wednesday, March 15, including a dog bite, numerous harassment calls, accidents, and menacing. The Las Animas County Sheriff’s Office saw some 127 calls for service during the same time, including fire smoke, a dead animal and an unattended death.

State Rep. Richard Holtorf was still talking when the sun came up.

A Raton sex offender convicted of abusing a child in 2010 faces the possibility of serving a lifetime parole sentence after the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that a district court erroneously imposed an “illegal sentence” during an appeal hearing.