Aurora CO

A 17-year-old person of interest in the shooting death of a 16-year-old in an Aurora driveway was found dead of a self inflicted wound, police said on Friday.

The project, anticipated to be a partnership between WM, City of Denver and Arapahoe County, still needs to go through permitting.

Denver Public Schools’ officials entered 2025 promising greater transparency and left the year defending how often they broke it. Board members on two-member committees — which must hold public meetings — met without notice to renegotiate the superintendent’s contract, and revise policy language. The Denver school...

Denver awarded a $30 million, three-year contract to Urban Alchemy to provide operational services at The Aspen, one of the largest city-owned homeless hotel shelters, beginning Jan. 1. Unlike The Salvation Army, which has operated several of the city’s non-congregate hotel shelters under a flat-fee contract, Urban...

THORNTON, Colo. — On a Friday night in Thornton, the chants sounded more like a tailgate than a vigil. Dozens of people, many in orange jerseys, stood along East 120th Avenue, candles flickering near the spot where police say Gabriel “Gabe” Vigil crashed his motorcycle two days before Christmas.

AURORA | Aurora’s municipal courts cancelled 73 arrest warrants for 56 people during an amnesty program held earlier in December. When people don’t attend their court date and receive an arrest warrant for failing to appear, it affects not only the person, but the entire court system, Chief Public Defender Elizabeth...

DENVER — A 5-year-old boy is coming to Colorado after his mother and grandmother were killed during a custody exchange in Georgia this fall. His uncle, a Navy veteran training to become a sheriff’s deputy in Colorado, is in the process of adopting him. David Domingo was about...

AURORA | Police say a teenage boy fatally shot early Sunday in the driveway of southeast Aurora home shot and killed himself. Officers were called to a house in the 3400 block of South Jebel Court at about 12:15 a.m. Sunday after reports of a teenage boy lying in the driveway of a home suffering a gunshot wound.

This story is a part of an occasional series looking at aspects of Colorado’s faltering economy. The small condo was affordable by Denver standards, costing her about $167,000, but it wasn’t easy to land. She had to pay $7,000 over the asking price and made the decision on an alarmingly short timeline.

Beginning in 2026, the Aurora Service Center for Adams County Human Services will no longer be in operation.