Aurora CO

“We don’t have an officer to send.” New 911 calls reveal what happened during a 3-hour police wait, as Aurora defends its response and considers change.

Jeffco Public Schools, Colorado’s second-largest school district, is looking for its next top leader and hopes to have a candidate selected by March. At a Board of Education retreat Friday, the board discussed the ongoing search, which began earlier this year when previous Superintendent Tracy Dorland resigned in July. Rob Stein, a veteran educator, is […]

The two closures are happening while the Colorado Department of Transportation works on a pedestrian bridge to connect bus stations in the Lone Tree Mobility Hub. Monday night, all of southbound I-25 will close, and Thursday night, all of northbound I-25 will close at Lincoln Avenue.

Thanks to Colorado’s unlikely Republican candidate for governor, exorcisms are having a moment … although Victor Marx says he’s not a fan of the word “exorcism.” He’s a “reluctant exorcist,” he explains, and is really just praying for people who “may be oppressed by forces of darkness or demons.”

Denver Health Medical Plan has disclosed a data breach tied to a healthcare analytics vendor that exposed the protected health information of 238,083 current and former members. The vendor, SquareML, had inadvertently posted an active access key on a publicly accessible website, and it sat there for nearly 14 months before anyone noticed.

Gov. Jared Polis and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston believe the "common application" will speed up the creation of affordable homes by cutting through red tape, which will eliminate redundant requirements for development.

The Denver Police Department is investigating two separate shootings that resulted in victims self-transporting to the hospital overnight on Monday.

I-25 & Auraria Parkway — Reported Site of Pedestrian-Involved Crash. A man died and four other adults were hospitalized after a two-vehicle crash on southbound I-25 near West Colfax Avenue in Denver in the early hours of Sunday. Police said the driver was attempting to pass another vehicle when he collided with the front of that car and was thrown from his own vehicle, dying from his injuries.

DENVER — The next storm system is moving north out of New Mexico and will cross Colorado overnight into early Monday morning. It is then expected to head northeast into Nebraska. Rain will become more widespread across the Front Range, the I-25 corridor, and the northeast plains, especially along and north of I-70. Some of that rain could mix with or change to wet snow on the Cheyenne Ridge and in the western Nebraska Panhandle.

Aspen Grove, the open-air shopping center anchored by Alamo Drafthouse at 7301 S. Santa Fe Drive in Littleton, has new owners. Nuveen, the asset-management subsidiary of financial giant TIAA, purchased the 33-acre mall earlier this month for $55 million, a steep discount from what the previous owner paid nearly a decade ago.