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Australia may have the solution for I-25 bottlenecks. Colorado’s going to try...
Easing the notorious rush-hour gridlock on Interstate 25 south of Denver will require controlling thousands of motorists’ access to the highway with fraction-of-a-second precision never before seen in...
View ArticleAnimal cruelty ballot measure is invalid, Colorado Supreme Court rules
The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday rejected a ballot measure that would have placed substantial limits on the state’s ranching and meat production industry, ruling that Initiative 16 violates the...
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Wildlife officers remove mountain lion from under a deck in Englewood
Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers tranquilized and relocated a mountain lion that was found under a deck at an Englewood home Thursday night. Officers responded around 9 p.m. to a report of the big...
View ArticleSeven Peaks Festival in Buena Vista canceled for 2021 due to Chaffee County...
The Seven Peaks Festival in Buena Vista, a country music extravaganza scheduled for Labor Day weekend, was canceled Friday due to Chaffee County’s COVID-19 capacity restrictions, which do not permit...
View ArticleJefferson County schools to require masks for students under age 12 to start...
Jeffco Public Schools, the state’s second-largest school district, announced Friday it will require students 3 to 11 years old to wear masks in class at the start of the upcoming school year. The age...
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CDOT’s big challenge: Keeping I-70 open in face of mudslide after mudslide in...
Glenwood Canyon’s been besieged by mudslides since June 26, leading to numerous closures of Interstate 70 that have held up truckers, tourists and locals as steep, fire-ravaged slopes become pathways...
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COVID caused many teachers to rethink their career. These new teachers are...
Barely a month into her first year of teaching last fall, Shayna Goldstein, a science teacher at Thornton Middle School, was asked to take over a class for an older colleague who didn’t want to do...
View ArticleJeffco Public Schools changes mask policy, requires all students to wear face...
Jeffco Public Schools announced late Monday that all students in the 84,000-student district will be required to mask up regardless of vaccination status, following a mandatory mask order for schools...
View ArticleCan millions in federal money help Colorado schools address pandemic-fueled...
Across Colorado, school districts are just starting to figure out how to spend a sizable slice of federal money that’s aimed at helping the education system recover from months during which classmates...
View Article“I am angry today:” Jeffco’s top health official halts mobile COVID-19...
The head of Jefferson County Public Health pulled the agency’s three COVID-19 vaccination vans off the road over Labor Day weekend after nurses and medical staff administering shots to the public were...
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Colorado’s urban-rural divide put to the test in new 8th Congressional District
Outside Eddie Braly’s window, empty fields roll northward from the edge of Adams County into Weld County, marking the spot where Denver’s northern suburbs seem to finally fade into farmland that’s...
View ArticleColorado doubles down on protecting big game animals in new report
In the face of unrelenting development across Colorado, state officials on Wednesday rolled out a plan that aims to preserve as much land — and provide as many migration routes as possible — for the...
View ArticleColorado’s congressional delegation — minus one — urges Air Force to keep...
In a near unanimous appeal, eight of nine members of Colorado’s congressional delegation sent a letter Thursday to the secretary of the Air Force, urging him to suspend the Trump administration’s...
View ArticleCities, counties begin inking approval of Colorado’s $400 million opioid...
A years-long effort to get millions of dollars to Colorado communities hard hit by the opioid addiction crisis is entering its final stage, with Arvada and Commerce City on Monday night becoming the...
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Tri-County’s executive director on the breakup of Colorado’s largest health...
Dr. John Douglas The executive director of the Tri-County Health Department, Dr. John Douglas, has been relatively quiet as the public health agency he has led for more than eight years — far and away...
View ArticleFederal judge stops Douglas County parents from exempting their children from...
Masks will need to go back on the faces of just about every student and staff member in the Douglas County School District after a federal judge on Tuesday ruled that a mask exemption issued by the...
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Elk, deer and a bear already have found safe passage under I-25 using new...
PALMER LAKE — Trying to dodge and weave across six lanes of interstate highway traffic between Colorado’s two largest cities — where 87,000 vehicles a day move through at 75 mph — is not for the faint...
View ArticleDouglas County parent of a child with disabilities vows to fight end of mask...
The battle over masks in schools that has defined much of the fall semester in the Douglas County School District will likely stretch into winter, with at least one parent of a student with...
View Article“Everyone held together”: Denver metro killing spree ends in front of...
Tyler Gunderson, the front-of-the-house manager for The Rock Wood-Fired Pizza restaurant in Lakewood’s Belmar shopping district, was telling one of his dishwashers to go home Monday night when things...
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Police identify 47-year-old man who killed 5 people, injured 2 others in...
The 47-year-old man who shot and killed five people and injured two others during an hour-long killing spree between Denver and Lakewood was previously under investigation by law enforcement, police...
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