By Quentin Young | editor
Our voter guide gives you everything you need to cast a ballot in the 2026 general election. The guide offers a look at candidates and their positions. It describes ballot measures in plain language. It explains how to register to vote, and how to vote. It also contains two special features:
Build-your-own-ballot: Just just enter your address, and the tool will display the candidates and measures on your ballot, wherever you live in Colorado.
Colorado Tradeoffs: Understand not just what’s on the ballot, but what could happen afterward. Test your choices, see the budget implications, and decide how you would respond.
Then-Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters attends the Western Conservative Summit in Aurora on June 4, 2022. (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline)
By Lindsey Toomer
A former U.S. Department of Justice attorney said Monday that former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters met with President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss “election integrity” and plans for upcoming elections. Ed Martin, who left his position with the Justice Department to take on legal work related to upcoming elections, told Real America’s Voice that Peters, a Republican who was convicted of multiple felonies for her role in a security breach of her office’s election equipment, met with Trump to talk about federal involvement in the November midterm elections.
Frisco Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation Center manager Michael Sirochman scans a cub with a PIT tag reader to make sure the implanted tag is working correctly. The tag allows Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff to know where a bear came from, and if it has been handled before. (Photo courtesy of John Livingston/CPW)
By Sharon Sullivan
Colorado Parks and Wildlife is rescuing more abandoned black bear cubs this year after environmental conditions strained food sources that bears rely on to fatten up before winter. “Extreme drought conditions have limited natural forage in the higher elevations,” said Rachael Gonzales, Colorado Parks and Wildlife Northwest Region spokesperson. Other environmental factors have also contributed to an unusual number of orphaned bears.
U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans, left, a Fort Lupton Republican finishing his first term in Congress, and Manny Rutinel, a Commerce City Democrat and former state legislator, debated Wednesday in Berthoud ahead of their race to represent Colorado's 8th Congressional District. (Photo by Lindsey Toomer/Colorado Newsline)
By Lindsey Toomer
The two candidates running to represent Colorado’s most competitive congressional district met Wednesday for their only debate ahead of the November election, sparring over federal immigration policy, affordability and the economy, and healthcare. U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans, a Fort Lupton Republican finishing his first term in Congress, and Manny Rutinel, a Commerce City Democrat and former state legislator, faced off at a debate in Berthoud. Evans called Rutinel “the most radical person to ever be nominated to run for Congress in the state of Colorado” while Rutinel said Evans “only responds to one man, and that is Donald Trump.”
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