Jennifer Brown

Jeannie Ritter retired from Denver’s community mental health center, where she tried to get people to open up about their struggles.

Colorado has some of the least restrictive abortion laws, but advocates say women in rural and mountain towns often lack reproductive health care access.

People without an acceptable form of voter ID can apply for a free Voter Authority Certificate to show at the polls.

Steamboat Resort and Breckenridge Resort opened child care centers for the kids of their employees this season.

Jared Polis was criticized by fellow Democratic mayors of Chicago and New York City for sending migrants on chartered buses

Personalized license plate requests — which have been rejected for being offensive, vulgar and rude — are weeded out by an automatic flagging system

During the pandemic, the Brighton Housing Authority started new programs to tutor school children and find emergency housing for victims of domestic violence

A project to get hospital emergency departments to dispense naloxone was so successful that organizers are now focused on labor and delivery units

The primary reason adoptions in Colorado fail is “child’s behavior problem.” How do you fix reactive attachment disorder or adoption-related loss?

Colorado voters pass Proposition 122 on Election Day, meaning psilocybin mushrooms will be legalized in the state.

The closure of Seasons Birth Center leaves Colorado with just six birth centers, which are struggling to stay profitable despite popularity.

A plant-based diet rich in isoflavones alters the composition of the gut microbiome in a way that reduces inflammation and appears to provide some protection against multiple sclerosis-like disease in mice. The new findings from the University of Iowa lab of Ashutosh Mangalam, PhD, UI associate professor of pathology, were published recently in Gut Microbes.

A Walden rancher who lost cows to wolves and a wolf advocate who teaches strategies to protect cattle tried to work together. Their falling out shows just how controversial wolves are in Colorado.

A report ordered by the legislature to examine Medicaid reimbursement rates for mental health providers has further annoyed therapists in private practice.

At the Meeker Mustang Makeover, wild horses that recently roamed free on the prairie walk through obstacle courses and show off ranching skills ahead of an auction.

The Children’s Hospital Colorado research looked at electronic health records for nearly 660,000 kids, comparing symptoms of those who had COVID with those who didn’t

The new group is using lived experience to connect. “We’re not professionals. We’re experts.”

Fried chicken sliders, meatballs and ravioli and rice pudding: Best things we ate this week  The Advocate