In the past couple of years, Colorado has had two major funeral home scandals. In 2023, the operators of the Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in Montrose, Colorado, pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges.

Colorado citizen Samantha Naranjo highlights her mother Dorothy Tardif, who was involved in the recent Colorado funeral home scandals. AP Photo/David Zalubowski ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In May 2024, Colorado enacted two laws that will tighten regulations on the funeral industry. The legislation comes in the wake of several incidents at funeral homes across the ...

David Zalubowski/AP A sign covers the broken back window of the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo., Monday, Oct. 16, 2023.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Tanya D. Marsh, Wake Forest University (THE CONVERSATION) In May 2024, Colorado ...

Colorado lawmakers will propose new regulations for funeral homes during the upcoming legislative session. The move comes after several high-profile incidents in recent years of egregious ...

A Colorado funeral home owner accused of improperly storing cremated remains and keeping a dead woman's body in a hearse for over a year has pleaded guilty, prosecutors said. Miles Harford, the ...

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed two bills into law Friday that overhaul state oversight of the funeral home industry after a series of gruesome discoveries, including 190 discomposing bodies in a ...

Re: “Colorado finally will license funeral home directors,” May 25 news story Rep. Matt Soper would have been correct if he’d referred only to the Return to Nature and Sunset Mesa funeral ...