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Town Council decisions and civic moves worth knowing about.
Douglas County Is Asking the State Supreme Court to Overturn Its Open-Meetings Defeat
An appeals court found the commissioners held 11 secret meetings while pushing a home-rule power grab voters later rejected 71 percent. Now the county wants the Colorado Supreme Court to say it did nothing wrong.
Douglas County's 2026 Primary: What to Watch Tuesday Night, and Where to Follow Results
Polls close 7 p.m. Tuesday. Weiser is leading Bennet, a MAGA outsider is winning the GOP governor primary, and two local races decide Douglas County. Our read on the odds, the money, and where to watch live.
Douglas County Reinstated Stage 1 Fire Restrictions Today. No Backyard Fireworks for the Fourth.
Effective June 29, open burning and personal fireworks are banned across unincorporated Douglas County, Castle Pines, and Larkspur. The pro shows in Castle Rock, Parker, and Lone Tree are still on.
Greg Lopez found the Colorado GOP's clearest path back to the governor's office. The party won't take it.
A former Parker mayor and Republican congressman left his party to run for governor as an independent. The strategy has nearly worked for outsiders in other states. In Colorado it would require the GOP to do the one thing it has refused to do: get out of its own way.
Hartsook vs. Davis: the Douglas County House race nobody saw coming
House District 44 was supposed to be a coronation. Then a 31-year cop got nominated from the floor, and now he is outspending the incumbent House leader nearly nine to one heading into June 30.
Your complete 2026 Douglas County ballot: every race from governor to commissioner
Governor, U.S. Senate, Congress, the statehouse, and the county: every race a Douglas County voter will see in 2026, plus the June 30 primaries that quietly decide most of them.
Diak, Bockenfeld, Bonham: inside the one Douglas County commissioner race actually up for grabs in 2026
Abe Laydon is term-limited, the District 1 seat is open for the first time in eight years, and the June 30 Republican primary will probably decide it, unless a county that's quietly gone purple has other ideas.