KUSA - A special presentation of Balance of Power airs Sunday morning at 9 a.m. on 9NEWS.

KUSA - Employees at Level 3 in Broomfield took the opportunity to go gas free and test-drive electrical vehicles.

DENVER (AP) - Colorado Democrats are closer to an intraparty showdown over labor rights. The Democratic state House has approved a firefighter labor bill that the Democratic governor has threatened to veto.

FORT COLLINS - Former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter was passed over as the nation's next energy chief on Monday by President Barack Obama.

DENVER (AP) - Gov. John Hickenlooper says he cannot support the current version of a bill that would make it easier to unionize firefighters in Colorado.

DENVER - Colorado's embattled energy development office is plagued by misspending, sloppy accounting and high turnover.

DENVER (AP) - Gov. John Hickenlooper will join Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Bender, Attorney General John Suthers and former Gov. Bill Ritter to dedicate the new Ralph L. Carr Judicial Center.

DENVER (AP) - Colorado Democratic lawmakers and firefighters say they're proposing allowing collective bargaining for firefighters without local government approval.

9NEWS, DAY 8 - The state Department of Human Services is making progress in its attempt to improve the child welfare system in Colorado.

DENVER (AP) - Gov. John Hickenlooper has reappointed Republican James K. Tarpey to the Public Utilities Commission of Colorado.

KUSA - What does Governor Bill Ritter think of stay-at-home dads? And, most importantly, how many ties has he gotten for Father's Day?

DENVER (AP) - The Colorado Court of Appeals says that when former Governors Bill Ritter and Bill Owens made proclamations of a state Day of Prayer from 2004 to 2009, it was unconstitutional.