Aurora CO

As Colorado faces drought conditions after one of the driest winters on record, experts are encouraging residents to use water-wise landscaping and native plants to help conserve water and avoid water restrictions, which are already in place in Denver.

Commerce City has updated its traffic rules to improve safety with more electric bikes and recreational vehicles on local roads. E-bikes and other street-legal vehicles are allowed on public streets, but off-highway vehicles are not permitted on public roads or sidewalks. More information: https://t.co/7LANQ5c9NE.

DENVER — Austin-based restaurant Paperboy has opened its first Colorado location in Denver’s West Highland neighborhood. Paperboy opens its first Colorado location in Denver’s West Highland. Austin-based restaurant marks its third location and first outside Texas. Menu features breakfast and lunch items including...

Commerce City police made two arrests after a 16-year-old girl was critically wounded by gunfire; she is expected to survive. In a separate case, a suspect driving a stolen vehicle rammed several cars before fleeing on foot and was captured with help from K9 Holland. Another incident involved a burglary victim...

A Denver-area insurance broker is accused of quietly siphoning off nearly $97,000 in workers’ compensation premiums, according to a newly filed indictment that puts his business practices under a harsh spotlight. Court documents identify 55-year-old George Gonzalez, owner of Amerimex Insurance, and lay out 14 felony...

Aurora is encouraging residents to rethink their landscaping as the city pushes for more water‑wise properties.

The Colorado Bureau of Intelligence announced the arrest of a man suspected of murdering his brother in New Mexico. Jaime Gilbert Martinez, 33, faces first-degree murder and tampering with evidence charges in connection with the homicide of his 31-year-old brother, Elijah Martinez, in Sapello, N.M., according to a...

Denver police are investigating a downtown shooting Saturday night that left one person dead near the intersection of 17th Street and Glenarm Place.

A Lakewood man will serve a decade in prison after ramming police vehicles with a stolen truck in Evergreen last fall. Thirty-three-year-old Tyler Young pleaded guilty to single counts of motor vehicle theft, vehicular eluding and second-degree assault at the Jefferson County District Court on Monday morning in...

Eugene Khang has owned the building at Reed Street and West 38th Avenue in Wheat Ridge for more than a decade. He knows every wall, every structural headache hiding behind the drywall, every dollar he’s sunk into the place since he and some partners bought what was then the old Valente’s building and turned it into...