David Kats was sentenced Tuesday to 36 years to life in prison after a Douglas County jury convicted the man on a dozen counts of sexual assault in December, court records show.

David Feil took a deal and pleaded guilty in March to child sex exploitation, dropping four felony charges of child sex assault from his case, Douglas County court records show.

A passenger train hit a tanker truck on Colorado’s Western Slope on Wednesday morning, causing the tank to split and spill an estimated 6,000 gallons of oil onto the ground.

New technology allows the Colorado Department of Transportation to detect when a vehicle illegally enters and exits express lanes and violators will begin receiving fines Thursday.

A Friday morning crash in southern Colorado killed two people and trapped a 5-year-old girl inside a crushed truck for more than a day, according to law enforcement.

The defense for a Colorado man who is being prosecuted in a 1994 Boulder killing said Friday that the decision to retry him after his original conviction was overturned in 2025 was about politics, not justice.