Kandace Hyland, a marketing director in Utah, was surprised to learn that daycare staff in the state don’t have to be vaccinated against measles, even amid an ongoing outbreak. “I’m nervous sending her to daycare every day,” she says of her baby. (Amy Maxmen/KFF Health News)
A confined swine feeding operation is shown in this photo. Congress is once again taking aim at state animal welfare laws regarding livestock confinement. (Photo by Kent Becker/U.S. Geological Survey)
From left: Republican Rep. Scott Bottoms of Colorado Springs speaks outside the Colorado Capitol on Jan. 28, 2025; Victor Marx, a Republican candidate for governor, participates in a forum hosted by Colorado business groups in Glendale on May 28, 2026; Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer speaks to the Senate during a special legislative session on Aug. 25, 2025. (Photos by Chase Woodruff and Sara Wilson/Colorado Newsline)
Residents of Cavern Springs Mobile Home Park gather outside Glenwood Springs City Hall after the City Council voted May 7 to support their purchase effort. The residents have until mid-June to raise enough funds to secure a loan and submit an offer to buy their park. Credit: Eleanor Bennett/Aspen Journalism & Aspen Public Radio
U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd, a Grand Junction Republican, speaks at a roundtable discussion on energy policy Wednesday at the Guzman Energy office in Denver. (Photo by Lindsey Toomer/Colorado Newsline)
Colorado Senate Assistant Minority Leader Cleave Simpson, seen here last year at the Colorado Capitol, said this year's competency bill was a good example of "practical results instead of a partisan agenda." (Photo by Lindsey Toomer/Colorado Newsline)
To combat vaccine misinformation, Carol Boigon joined an outreach coalition and is publicly sharing her story about being hospitalized with polio when she was 5. She never recovered full function in her right arm. (Kevin J. Beaty/Colorado Public Radio/Denverite)
Community members protest ahead of a special Box Elder County Commission meeting to discuss the Stratos project, a massive data center proposed for an unincorporated area in Box Elder County, Utah, on May 4, 2026. (Photo by Alixel Cabrera/Utah News Dispatch)
Trees bloom in early spring outside an apartment building in the Bronx, N.Y., in 2026. New York City had the highest number of Emergency Housing Voucher recipients and is scrambling to transition them as the program sunsets. (Photo by Robbie Sequeira/Stateline)
A large garage door sits closed at the entrance to ICE’s Glenwood Springs field office and short-term detention facility in the Midland Center on May 30, 2025. The city’s planning commission will hold a hearing April 28 to decide whether to revoke the facility’s special use permit after multiple detainees were found to have been held there for more than 12 hours. Credit: Eleanor Bennett/Aspen Journalism & Aspen Public Radio
Colorado House Assistant Minority Leader Ty Winter, a Trinidad Republican, on the House floor on Feb. 11, 2026, at the Colorado Capitol. (Photo by Lindsey Toomer/Colorado Newsline)
