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Payton Mathelier sat motionless in her blocks. It’s that moment when the world ceases to spin. The Mountain Vista junior shot out of the blocks like the nonexistent bullet in the starter’s gun. She pushed the pedal all the way to the floor, accelerating faster than a Dodge...

Police are investigating two overnight motorcycle fatalities in Aurora and Englewood. At approximately 12:04 a.m. Sunday, officers of the Englewood Police Department responded to the area of 1900 W Dartmouth Ave., according to a social media post.  Officers discovered a motorcycle rider who was later pronounced dead at the scene.  A preliminary investigation determined the […]

Nuggets and Avalanche fans are gearing up for another playoff run, but with ticket prices still steep and Live Nation freshly hit with an antitrust ruling, many are finding a free way to cheer.

Aurora police say a man was shot during a struggle over clothing he was selling outside his home late Friday night.

In the long-running turf battle between jets and critters on the plains, Denver International Airport logged at least 863 collisions between aircraft and wildlife last year, the second-highest total in the airport's history. Airport records put strike-related repairs at roughly $1 million. In one standout incident in April 2025, a white-tailed jackrabbit was sucked into a Boeing 737 engine during...

With the Broncos stadium awash in a pink sea of Lionel Messi jerseys, Denver was transformed into a fútbol town as rowdy as Buenos Aires or Barcelona. On a Saturday when Nikola Jokic raised the roof in the Nuggets’ home arena and Shohei Ohtani filled a ballpark in LoDo, both those sports giants were dwarfed […]

17-19 In 1920…snow fell across the city continuously for 57 hours… From the early morning of the 17th until 11:40 am on the 19th. The heavy wet snowfall totaled 18.2 inches with the greatest accumulation on the ground of 12 inches. Winds during the storm were strong with sustained speeds in excess of 27 mph for over 40 consecutive hours…which...

In Monday night’s Aurora City Council study session, councilmembers will discuss a resolution that, if passed at a future regular meeting, would state that the City Council “stands in mourning” with people who have lost loved ones to officer-involved shootings. The resolution comes to a study session just over a week after an officer shot […]

Police are investigating a deadly crash involving a motorcycle in Aurora on Saturday evening.

A Saturday night motorcycle crash at East Mississippi Avenue and South Moline Street in Aurora turned fatal, police say, shutting down the entire intersection, snarling local traffic, and forcing drivers onto nearby east-west detours. The collision happened at about 8:15 p.m., according to officials. What police are saying. According to...