By Chase Woodruff | senior reporter
Newsline’s Lindsey Toomer reported this week from inside the Denver courtroom where a state judge is set to decide whether to hold Children’s Hospital Colorado in contempt for failing to resume gender-affirming care for minors. Four families sued when the hospital, amid threats from the Trump administration, stopped offering care like puberty blockers and hormone therapy to transgender patients under 18, and say the hospital hasn’t resumed providing such care despite a June court order to that effect. Newsline reporters also covered developments this week in cases relating to a new gun control law and an attempt to block a new immigrant detention center in Hudson. Below are some of our other top stories from the week.
NYPD officers walk down a street in downtown Manhattan as part of the 25th anniversary of 9/11 memorial on Sept. 11, 2026. (Photo by Shalina Chatlani/ Stateline)
By Ashley Murray, Shalina Chatlani, Shauneen Miranda and Ariana Figueroa
Powerful U.S. officials past and present faced families, survivors and first responders Friday at ceremonies to honor the 25th anniversary of the day 2,977 Americans died in terrorist attacks in Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania. Speakers at all three Sept. 11 milestone anniversary events recounted stories of courage and loss as people found themselves in an unimaginable circumstance.
Global AI is set to create a data center at the former Carestream Health property at 2000 Howard Smith Avenue W in Weld County. (Screenshot from Google Maps)
By Sara Wilson
The Weld County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Wednesday to allow the development of a new data center by an artificial intelligence infrastructure company. The 5-0 vote approved the zoning for a proposal from Global AI to create a 41-acre data center in an unincorporated area of the county near Windsor. It could become the biggest data center in the state. The decision came after a daylong hearing that included hours of public comment, mostly in opposition to the project.
Gas wells operate near Interstate 70 in Garfield County near Parachute, June 9, 2023. (William Woody for Colorado Newsline)
By Chase Woodruff
Two environmental groups sued the Trump administration Tuesday, alleging the Bureau of Land Management violated federal law when it leased more than 134,000 acres of public lands in Colorado for oil and gas drilling earlier this year. In their lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of Colorado, Wilderness Workshop and The Wilderness Society say the BLM’s June 2026 lease sale would “allow the development of oil and gas wells in habitat critical to some of the United States’ largest, and last remaining, migrations of pronghorn antelope, mule deer and elk.”
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