Commerce City police use Real Crime Center to track drones helping solve crime
The Commerce City Police Department is using what they call a Real Crime Center to track drones in real time that are helping solve crime and prioritize resources.
Here’s Where to Find Third Places (And Community Connection) Around Denver
We’re aiming to raise $20,000 by April 26. Your support ensures Westword can continue watching out for you and our community. No paywall. Always accessible. Daily online and weekly in print. Chandler Bing and friends had Central Perk. Norm had Cheers. Lorelai and Rory Gilmore had Luke’s Diner. But...
Denver Grocer to Take Former Lowe’s Site
An affiliate of grocery giant Kroger has purchased a site at 1171 Dillon St. in Louisville and plans to install a King Soopers grocery store. The former Lowe’s Home Improvement store property in a city northwest of Denver was acquired for $22.6 million. The Denver Business Journal reports DRA...
Taiwan-Based 85°C Bakery Cafe to Open First Colorado Location in Aurora
85°C Bakery Cafe will soon serve fresh pastries and coffee at Parker Commons shopping center.
Denver may eliminate prostitution fines
The Denver City Council Health and Safety Committee will consider Wednesday eliminating fines for people convicted of prostitution as part of sweeping municipal law changes to reduce penalties in most cases and align with state law.
Aurora police plead with parents to stop teens on dangerous e-bikes
Despite a new ordinance fining parents, Aurora police say they cannot stop the growing number of teens riding dangerous, off-highway electric motorcycles on local roads.
While online sales pressure retail, a Denver computer store packs in customers the old-fashioned...
In a day when almost any purchase consumers make starts out with a click online, a retail store that sells computers sounds like a dinosaur — one that should have gone extinct around the time that Tower Records (2006) and Blockbuster video (2010) did. Rather, the parking lot in front of Micro Center, in a […]
Denver Public Schools will seek tax hike after record $975M bond package
Eighteen months after promising voters that passing a nearly $1 billion bond would not raise taxes, Denver Public Schools said it will seek a mill levy override. If approved by voters, the mill levy override is expected to generate $43 million annually, district spokesperson Bill Good said in an email to The Denver Gazette. DPS […]
Good Morning America Is at Pikes Peak Today…but Denver’s Left in the Dark
We’re aiming to raise $20,000 by April 26. Your support ensures Westword can continue watching out for you and our community. No paywall. Always accessible. Daily online and weekly in print. Good Morning America broadcast live from the 14,115-foot summit of Pikes Peak at sunrise today, around 6:30 a.m....
Sheridan teachers union threatens recall of school board as strike drags on
Union leaders behind a teachers strike that began more than a week ago in Sheridan School District say they are prepared to pursue a recall of the district’s four school board members. Educators belonging to the Sheridan Education Association, along with other school staff, parents and students, have walked...
