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DENVER — The statewide unemployment rate in Colorado was unchanged from October to November at 6.4% but likely doesn’t include the full extent of job losses caused by several counties moving to Level Red COVID restrictions. The data, released Friday morning by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, showed 6,900 non-farm payroll jobs were lost between the two months to just more than 2.68 million, the first time that has happened since May. Those losses were led by 6,400 job cuts in the leisure and hospitality industry, followed by 3,800 cuts in education and health jobs and 2,00...

A sign encourages mask wearing in downtown Breckenridge. Colorado has started scaling up a program that allows local businesses struggling under the weight of Level Red coronavirus restrictions to apply for permission to operate at a lower level of the state’s COVID-19 dial. In a Friday news conference, Gov. Jared Polis announced the Department of Public Health and Environment had approved its first application—Summit County’s—to enter its so-called “5-star program.” It gives local public health officials the power to award special certifications to businesses that go all-out wit...

Colorado officials say avoiding Christmas spike key to hitting finish line on COVID-19 fight News5 has the latest on COVID, including promising news on another vaccine, the status of El Paso County cases, and how we can all help each other during the holidays. By: Blake Roznowski and last updated 2020-12-18 20:58:56-05 COLORADO SPRINGS — State epidemiologist Dr. Rachel Herlihy said if Colorado avoids a COVID-19 spike from Christmas and New Year's Eve activity, the state is on track to see numbers similar to the spring in time for school to reopen in January. The latest st...

UpdatedSat, Dec 19, 2020 at 9:32 am MT Reply More than 3,400 people have died due to COVID-19 in Colorado since the pandemic began, according to public health data. (Shutterstock) Colorado has begun to see a decline in coronavirus case rates over the past two weeks, according to the latest public health data. Between Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon, 3,693 new cases of the coronavirus were reported in Colorado, according to public health data. As of Thursday, 304,107 people had been infected with the coronavirus in the state among 2,012,614 people who have been tested since the outbrea...

When COVID-19 swept into Colorado, few industries were as swiftly devastated as gyms and fitness studios. Who wants to grunt and sweat in close proximity to others during a global pandemic? It’s no wonder, then, that these businesses closed early and remained shuttered until June, when they were allowed to reopen at reduced capacity—25 percent or 50 people per room, whichever was fewer. By mid-November, though, as Colorado’s third wave of cases swelled above April’s peak and forced local counties to move to the revised Level Red, restrictions tightened further. As of December 18, gyms...