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Gov. Jared Polis declared that he will pardon Coloradans with past state convictions for possession of psilocybin at the 2025 Psychedelic Science conference and trade show in Denver last week. Listen to "Morning Edition" backup host Emma VandenEinde discuss this story with BizWest's Managing Editor Lucas High and then read the full story using the link below.

An office building and adjacent warehouse that have been home to a Christian publisher may be acquired by the City of Loveland to house its utilities department. The City Council on Tuesday will consider an ordinance allowing the city to pursue the $12 million purchase.

A Weld District Court judge has granted the Town of Firestone’s request for a temporary restraining order that prevents the Central Weld County Water District from cutting off water service to the town.

Greeley will not move forward with the purchase of the JBS USA headquarters building in the Promontory business park, with the city focusing instead on funding of a new civic campus downtown.

Not that long ago, travelers to Erie encountered dirt streets, few amenities and a sparse population. Today, the town’s location — straddling Boulder and Weld counties — has brought new retail, restaurants, employers and residents — enough of the latter to rank this once-sleepy town as the No. 15 fastest-growing city in the nation.

Weld County is taking the Town of Hudson to court in an attempt to keep construction of a planned truck stop along Interstate 76 from further damaging a heavily traveled county road. Learn more from BizWest.

Leaders with the Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce and Boulder Chamber have joined state and local business groups from around Colorado in signing onto a letter urging President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick to preserve funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s national network of Cooperative Institutes and NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research.

A U.S. District Court judge has denied Future Legends LLC’s request for a temporary restraining order against the Town of Windsor over the pending expiration of temporary certificates of occupancy, but the owner of the troubled sports complex on Friday appealed the town’s decision to let the permits expire Sunday night.

The Colorado Economic Development Commission gave its blessing Thursday to a plan by Louisville officials to establish a CHIPS Zone in the city that would encompass the Colorado Technology Center business park and Redtail Ridge. Louisville is now the fourth city in the Boulder Valley and Northern Colorado with an approved CHIPS Zone designation, joining Longmont, Broomfield and Fort Collins.

The Greeley City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to authorize the city attorney’s office to bring legal action against the neighboring community of Windsor, claiming that the smaller community has ignored a 17-year-old intergovernmental agreement on infrastructure.