Early giving starts for Colorado Gives Day, thousands of nonprofits need your support
The statewide movement launched in 2010 has propelled Colorado to a top position in the country for philanthropic giving.
Watch CBS News
Anna Alejo is CBS News Colorado's Executive Producer of Community Impact. She works with the news team to develop more grassroots relationships and original content at the neighborhood and local business level, ensuring a wide range of perspectives are represented in programming. Alejo previously worked with CBS from 1991 through 2007 as an award-winning general assignment and education reporter. She also served as Director of Corporate Communications for Western Union and was the owner of a public relations consulting practice.
The statewide movement launched in 2010 has propelled Colorado to a top position in the country for philanthropic giving.
The father detained with his two children by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Durango earlier this week was wrongly identified by agents, a senior official with ICE's Denver field office said. The family remains in custody.
Tuesday's ballots will determine the direction of Denver Public Schools as four of seven seats on the board will be filled.
Chaos erupted outside of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in southwestern Colorado after agents took a family into custody and Durango police tried to get the children released.
The teacher was authorized to work in the U.S., according to school officials, but ICE said she was in the country illegally. The educator and her family, including minor children, are being held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas.
The court said the government does not have an unfettered right to detain noncitizens.
Candidates discuss variety of issues from academics and school safety to charters and choice.
Academics, declining enrollment, school safety, immigration and all-gender restrooms are among the issues the candidates addressed.
The Chiles v. Salazar case will determine if Colorado's ban on "conversion therapy" for minors violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment.
Eleven candidates are vying to lead the board, watch the candidates state their views on the key issues facing DPS.
Building a food system he hopes will heal communities, as it healed him.
In a new federal court document filed on Monday, the team of attorneys for detained immigrant rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra, and herself an immigrant fighting deportation, asked a judge to grant her immediate release.
For one Colorado family, corn prepared as "elote" is a passion they share with the community.
Denver police say a recent TV ad from ICE has failed to lure any Denver officers away from the department, despite promises of a signing bonus of up to $50,000, student loan forgiveness, and other benefits.
For more than 30 years, Tepeyac has worked to bring high quality, affordable health care to underserved communities in Denver.