Jefferson County formed its own health department a decade later and in 1966, a sparsely populated Douglas County joined up with Tri-County. The county now has more than 350,000 residents.

J.B. Poplawski, a father of two who lives in Parker, said Douglas County is “following politics” in breaking away from the Tri-County Health Department and overriding the mask order.

Douglas County commissioners are pictured at their business meeting on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. County leaders voted Wednesday to let the city-county health department opt out of doing annual ...

The Douglas County Health Department recently retired its COVID-19 dashboard in favor of a Public Health Data Portal, starkly noted by its opposite contrast to the dashboard's dark design.

The Douglas County Health Department received a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help with overdose crisis. The CDC awarded the five-year, $890,000 annual grant to the ...

The Douglas County Board of Commissioners voted in September 2021 to leave the Tri-County Health Department (TCHD) and form their own public health agency amid disagreements over COVID-19 masking ...

Douglas County contributes about $2.5 million to Tri-County’s annual budget. Setting up their own health department could lead to a duplication of some of the costs now shared with two other ...

The Tri-County Health Department is expected to provide all other services through the end of next year. 00:03 02:47 Author: Janet Oravetz (9News) Published: 6:33 PM MST November 12, 2021 ...

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — On Monday, the Tri-County Health Department announced it will mandate masks for every person age 2 and up in schools and childcare facilities, and counties will ...

photo by: Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health Jan. 26 COVID-19 update from the health department. Older residents, workers in a variety of industries and all of the other groups identified in ...

The order, which also raises the threshold for what would trigger a quarantine in the classroom, is the culmination of weeks of recriminations between county leaders and public health and school ...