Transparency and debt defined Denver’s education stories in 2025
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’s performance-based shelter contracts face test with Urban Alchemy
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...
Denver’s condo market has homeowners worried
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.
This Colorado Lake Has History + is Allegedly Haunted
Learn the fascinating history of Colorado’s Carter Lake, including multiple accounts of it being haunted.
Denver’s Most Popular Radio Stations in 2025
Over the course of 2025, Denver radio ratings have been on the move. The latest audience survey shows that Christmas remains king on the local airwaves at this time of year, but the results as a whole have proven to be much more fluid. The Nielsen ratings service tracks numbers...
Boulder County Sheriff’s Office Tackles Wide Range of Tasks: Animal Rescues to Fire Management
The Boulder County Sheriff's Office has been bustling with a bevy of activities aimed at maintaining public safety and responding to a variety of emergencies across the region. A social media post from the Boulder County Sheriff's Office detailed some of the variety of calls their deputies and supporting teams have...
Man dies in stolen motorcycle crash on Christmas
A man died in a motorcycle crash on Christmas in Denver. The motorcycle was later confirmed to have been stolen. The Colorado State Patrol responded to a single-vehicle crash on westbound Interstate 76, just west of Interstate 25 in north Denver, around 2:30 p.m., a spokesperson from CSP told The Denver Gazette. A...
JonBenet Ramsey case could benefit from new DNA technology as police renew commitment
Boulder police renew efforts in JonBenet Ramsey murder case with new chief praising advanced DNA testing, nearly 30 years after the Christmas tragedy that shocked America.
Boulder County holiday bummers: A soon-to-be porky pig, and other bad holiday gifts
The holidays arrive freighted with expectations. There is the hope of togetherness, joy, warmth — and, inevitably, the exchange of presents. Most gifts pass quietly into use or storage. Some disappoint and are quickly forgotten. And a select few, by virtue of their timing, scale or sheer improbability, refuse to...
Put a moratorium on plastic pipes to protect our firefighters | OPINION
It may shock people to learn that cancer is the most dangerous threat to firefighter health and safety. In fact, cancer is the leading cause of fire fighter line-of-duty deaths. The risk from cancer can in large part be traced back to the increased use of chemical and plastic materials in much of our everyday lives....

















