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Ten years ago today, after years of planning and $1.2 billion, the A Line opened its sliding doors and whisked passengers out to the airport. Looking back, that day — April 22, 2016 — summed up an era. Colorado’s population was growing at one of its fastest paces...

AURORA - The Colorado High School Activities Association celebrated its 36th Hall of Fame ceremony by officially inducting its Class of 2026 into the CHSAA Hall of Fame on Wednesay night at the DCSD Legacy Campus. This seven-member class includes Bert Borgmann, Gail Crawford, Harry Hollines, Mary Kvamme, Kelly Meek,...

DENVER (KDVR) — A Denver man says his prized show dog was mistakenly euthanized by the city’s animal shelter. David Bustamante says “Niko” slipped out of the family’s northwest Denver home in mid-December. A few days later, Bustamante spotted the 4-year-old A.K.C. Show Dog on the Denver Animal Shelter website. After going down to the shelter […]

DENVER — A home in Denver’s Congress Park neighborhood is missing more than just a yard fixture — it’s missing a piece of family history. Sometime last month, a sculpture was stolen from the front yard of Vinny Del Giudice’s home. He said the piece was created by his daughter, Caroline, about a decade ago when she was still in college.

A former Aurora anti-violence activist took the witness stand Wednesday afternoon to tell his side of the story after being charged in a murder prosecutors say is rooted in revenge. Both sides of the aisle were filled as 47-year-old Lumumba Sayers Sr. took the stand in an Adams County District courtroom, claiming innocence in the […]

Buckley Space Force Base has been selected to operate a nuclear microreactor as part of the Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations initiative.

DENVER — Despite decades of gains under the Clean Air Act, extreme heat, drought and wildfires are making it harder to maintain clean air, the American Lung Association's annual “State of the Air” report released on Wednesday found. The Denver Metro saw some improvements but is still...

An elderly, disabled homeless woman who said she was a guest at the Aurora navigation center has made several serious allegations against the facility, but the director says he doesn’t know what she’s talking about.

A group of residents has filed an ethics complaint with the Thornton Police Department after alleging that a single officer conducted more than 19,000 searches in the city’s license plate reader system over roughly two years, far exceeding the usage of other officers.

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