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one-year anniversary of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 with a moment of reflection on Friday, March 5. Additionally, city buildings displayed the color magenta, representing universal love, compassion and kindness, to commemorate the lives lost to this pandemic. Colorado has lost nearly 6,000 people, including 740 in El Paso County, to COVID-19. Josh Carrier, a former Colorado Springs Police officer, lost a bid to have his 70-years-to-life sentence reconsidered. He was convicted of molesting boys at a Colorado Springs School District 11 school during the 2010-11 school year. The Uni...

The luck of the Irish ran out last year on St. Patrick's Day, normally one of the busiest times for bars and pubs. March 17, 2020, was the first day of a two-month-plus-long COVID-based lockdown in Colorado, which closed restaurants to in-house dining and made bars that couldn't come up with some way to serve food strictly verboten. Just a few days earlier, Denver's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade had been canceled, though incautious revelers still packed bars in trendy neighborhoods that weekend (since social distancing and group- gathering rules hadn't yet been imposed in the state). A year...

The resorts will now be open until mid-April.

and last updated 2021-03-09 09:31:44-05 DENVER — The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is relaxing some COVID-19 restrictions under an amended public health order issued Sunday. The changes include increased capacity for restaurants and an expanded last call to order alcohol for counties on Level Blue and Level Yellow on the state's COVID-19 dial. The amended order is also bringing changes to the dial. While the levels — green, blue, yellow, red and purple — remain the same, the changes will give counties more wiggle room before they are bumped up and restric...

Colorado’s dial framework standardizes different levels of “openness” at the county level, CDPHE's website says