Fifteen years ago, the state crime lab in Connecticut was in disarray. A high-profile, Yale University murder case had been postponed while lawyers awaited DNA and other evidence. A serial rapist had ...

Austen Erblat is a digital producer and assignment editor at CBS News Colorado and is Covering Colorado First. Originally from South Florida, he's been working as a journalist in Denver since 2022.

Just after Christmas 2023, a chemist at the state public health laboratory admitted to her bosses that she had manipulated test results. In the coming weeks her supervisors at the Colorado Department ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, moving to dissolve a research lab that a top White House official described as “one ...

The federal government has laid off 114 employees at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Colorado lab, as well as remote employees, an agency spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday. The layoffs ...