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Colorado is tackling a surge in eating disorders with its acting governor signing two bills to address the mental illness. The bills signed Tuesday will create a state program dedicated to addressing the mental illness, limit the use of body mass index in determining treatment and restrict the sale of diet pills to minors.

Experts are hopeful a new state law will lead more facility schools to open. Meanwhile, school districts are creating their own programs, and creative and skilled educators are finding ways to meet students’ needs in traditional classrooms.

The special schools have no central oversight and instead are the responsibility of multiple state agencies. A new law aims to increase accountability.

Three teens accused of throwing large rocks at passing cars, one of which investigators say killed a 20-year-old woman, have been charged with murder and other crimes.

Three Colorado teens accused of driving around and throwing large rocks at passing cars, one of which investigators say killed a 20-year-old woman, allegedly circled back to take a photo of her crashed car as a "memento."

Three teenagers have been arrested on first-degree murder charges in connection to the death of a Colorado woman, who was struck by a rock that investigators say was thrown through her windshield while she was driving.

The Center for Native American Youth is collecting survey data to better understand the lives and needs of American Indian and Alaska Native youth.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the highest levels of suicidal thoughts among teenage girls in over a decade.

Several bills that aim to identify mental health issues in students and offer them support are working their way through the State Capitol as last year’s mental health funding is still being distributed.

Cassandra Armas is a frontline worker fighting to rein in a crisis. Her job, as an in-school therapist was created by a community-wide effort in Eagle County to change the bleak narrative of rural childhood mental health in the region by putting therapists in the schools. Today there are 17 therapists who see students at every school in the district. In 2017 there were none.