2026 in Colorado
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Incumbents
State Government
- Governor: Jared Polis (D)
Events
January
- January 6 – The Department of Health and Human Services announces it is halting $10 billion in social service programs to Colorado and four other Democratic states.[1]
February
- February 13 – Four people are killed in a small plane crash near Steamboat Springs.[2]
- February 17 – Five people are killed in a crash involving over 30 vehicles on Interstate 25 south of Pueblo.[3]
March
- March 16 – About 3,800 workers begin a strike at a Swift Beef Co. plant in Greeley.[4]
- March 27 – Four of the seven law enforcement officers in Costilla County, as well as a former deputy, are indicted by a grand jury in two unrelated cases. The sheriff and a former deputy are charged with mishandling human remains, allegedly taking only some of the remains reported by a citizen and leaving the others behind in October 2024. In a separate case, the undersheriff, a deputy, and a sergeant, who is also the sheriff's son, are charged with assault for allegedly tasing a man who was undergoing a mental health crisis in February 2026.[5]
- March 31 – In Chiles v. Salazar, the Supreme Court rules that a Colorado ban on conversion therapy should be sent back to the lower courts to determine if the ban violates the First Amendment.[6]
April
- April 2 – An appeals court orders a resentencing for election denier and former county clerk Tina Peters, who in 2024 was sentenced to nine years in prison for seven charges related to election interference in the 2020 presidential election.[7]
- April 11 – The Denver Pioneers beat the Wisconsin Badgers 2–1 to win the 2026 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament. It is their third title in five years.[8]
Predicted and scheduled
- November 3 – 2026 Colorado gubernatorial election[9]