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Several Colorado ski resorts are receiving much-needed snowfall just in time for the weekend, a boost that is especially welcome given that another dry spell is expected next week. A storm that began Thursday and is continuing on Friday is forecast to deliver two-day totals of 14 inches at Snowmass, 13 at Aspen Mountain and Aspen Highlands, 12 at Vail and Beaver Creek, according to the OpenSnow reporting and forecasting service. The storm began Thursday for those areas. Summit County resorts received negligible snow as of 6 a.m. Friday, but Keystone can expect eight inches through the day on Friday, Arapahoe Basin and Breckenridge seven, Copper Mountain six. Winter Park is forecast to receive nine inches, Eldora eight and Loveland seven. Related Articles Five of Colorado’s most difficult (dare we say scary?) ski runs “There’s new snow on the ground, and it’ll snow for a lot of the day in most areas,” OpenSnow founding meteorologist Joel Gratz wrote in his Friday morning up...

Democrats’ priority bills on taxes, unions are up for key votes this week in the Colorado legislature

Welcome back to the Capitol, where Colorado lawmakers will pass the midpoint of the 2026 session later this week. That threshold — the 60-day mark — will hit Saturday, when lawmakers will (likely … hopefully) be home for the weekend. Before that happens, legislators in the House will vote on several bills that have been tabbed as priority measures by the Democratic lawmakers who have near-supermajority control of the statehouse. Today, the House is set to vote on House Bill 1005 and send it to the Senate. The bill would repeal a unique provision of Colorado’s labor law , which requires that newly formed unions pass a second vote before they can begin negotiating the collection of union dues. Colorado lawmakers aim to ‘assert state authority’ amid federal gaps on vaccines, worker safety and other issues The bill is almost certain to pass the House today and the Senate later this session. It's a priority for the unions that form a significant part of the Democratic base, an...

Colorado woman gets 36 years prison time for creating, distributing child sex abuse material

An Aurora woman will spend more than three decades in prison for sexually abusing three children under the age of 5, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Thursday. Charlyna Butterworth, 29, took a deal and pleaded guilty to one count of creating and one count of distributing child sexual abuse material, according to federal court records. The deal dropped additional charges of producing, distributing and possessing child sexual abuse material from her case, court records show. Between November 2023 and January 2024, Butterworth repeatedly abused three children under the age of five while they were entrusted to her care, and created sexual material of the abuse, according to court documents. United States District Judge Gordon Gallagher sentenced Butterworth in November to 25 years for producing the videos and images and 11 years for distributing them, court records show. The sentences will be served consecutively. “This is a serious sentence for a serious crime,” U.S. Attorney for...

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Democrats’ priority bills on taxes, unions are up for key votes this week in the Colorado legislature

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