By Quentin Young | editor
“This new law ensures that vendors who falsely label their produce as Colorado-grown can be held accountable for deceiving consumers and harming Colorado producers.”
– Colorado state Rep. Matthew Martinez
An image from the DraftKings website. (Illustration by Colorado Newsline)
By Sara Wilson
Dozens of new laws passed during the Colorado legislative session this year go into effect Wednesday. They range from proper produce labeling to artificial intelligence in health care settings. According to legislation on sports betting, people who gamble in Colorado will no longer be able to use credit cards to make deposits on sports betting apps like FanDuel and DraftKings. They will also be limited to six deposits per day. The law also prohibits sports betting companies from advertising to people in Colorado under 21 years old.
Low water levels on Lake Granby, a reservoir on the Colorado River and part of the Colorado-Big Thompson water storage project, are pictured on July 8, 2026. (Photo by Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline)
By Chase Woodruff
A record-breaking stretch of high temperatures late last month was Colorado’s worst heat wave in the 75 years that such records have been collected, state climatologists said Tuesday. The four-day period from July 25 to 28 included the first- and third-hottest days in Colorado’s recorded history, as measured by the statewide average temperature. The statewide average of 78.75 degrees Fahrenheit on July 27 exceeded the previous daily record, set in 2005, by more than 1.5 degrees. That one-day average included a high of 113 degrees Fahrenheit in the Eastern Plains town of Burlington, just two degrees shy of the state’s all-time record high.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans, a Fort Lupton Republican, held a press conference Tuesday after they participated in a roundtable with Colorado farmers and ranchers at Bobcat of the Rockies in Henderson. (Photo by Lindsey Toomer/Colorado Newsline)
By Lindsey Toomer
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans on Tuesday defended funding cuts and work requirements Republicans added to federal food assistance programs that have led to thousands of Coloradans losing benefits. Rollins and Evans, a Fort Lupton Republican, hosted a roundtable with Colorado farmers and agricultural producers at Bobcat of the Rockies in Henderson. At a press conference after the roundtable, which was closed to the media, the pair talked about challenges farmers in Colorado face and how the federal government supports them and the agriculture industry.
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