Opinion: Homeless hotel diary: Case manager needs trauma training
When you live in a homeless hotel, how you get along with your case manager matters a lot. A good case manager will help you apply for benefits, obtain food, distribute bus passes, and provide other services they are paid to provide. It’s their job.
Cars removed from collapsed Denver parking garage after 10 days; city says work is...
DENVER — Ten days after a parking garage on Yosemite Street collapsed and trapped vehicles inside, some car owners are finally getting their vehicles back — but the city said the stabilization process is still ongoing. The City of Denver said it could not confirm how many cars...
Lakewood police looking for man accused of groping woman, exposing himself
LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Police in Lakewood are asking for the public's help identifying a man suspected of groping a woman and exposing himself. The Lakewood Police Department said that on Sunday, March 29 at around 2:15 p.m., a woman was groped on her buttock by a man on a bicycle who followed her from the Stone House...
Record low snow bodes ill for water in Aurora and the drought-stricken West
WALDEN | Colorado hydrologist Maureen Gutsch trudged through the mud and slush to confirm a grim picture: The state just had its worst snowpack since statewide record keeping began in 1941. Even more troubling, mountain snow accumulations peaked a month early and contained just half the average moisture. As a...
How are golf courses staying so green despite water restrictions?
After Denver7 received several emails with questions about how golf courses will operate this summer, Denver7's Tyler Melito took those questions to Denver Golf's Director of Agronomy.
EDITORIAL: Aurora, state water policies need to reflect reality not a green mirage
Colorado has long sold itself as a land of abundance, with sweeping green lawns, lush parks, tree-lined suburbs and emerald golf courses set against a backdrop of snowcapped peaks. That image is, and always has been, a carefully engineered illusion. Colorado is not a green state. It is a green...
Denver delays scooter contract again, council questions process and last-minute changes
DENVER — Denver city officials on Wednesday again postponed a decision on a plan to overhaul the city’s scooter and e-bike system, as council members raised concerns about transparency, timing and recent changes to the proposed contract. The proposal would replace current operators, Lime and Bird, with a...
Woman sentenced for hit-and-run that killed man on shoulder of I-25
DENVER — A woman who pleaded guilty to a charge stemming from a hit-and-run that killed a man who was changing a tire will avoid prison time. Marisol Infante, 30, was sentenced to six years in community corrections Thursday after pleading guilty in February to vehicular homicide-reckless driving, court records show....
Scavenging for sport: How Trash Panda turns waste plastic into disc golf discs
Jesse Stedman has a diversion project underway in south Denver. Plastics that might have been labeled as waste and thrown into a dumpster are instead being refashioned and thrown into a disc golf basket. Stedman started playing disc golf in 2008, as a ninth grader in Northern California. Over time,...
4-wheeler driver arrested, accused of riding recklessly through streets of Aurora
A group of e-bikes, four-wheelers and off-road bikes was captured on camera disrupting traffic in Aurora.
