Colorado Weather Alert Today: Light Snow and Slick Travel Develop Near Denver Through Friday...
Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Colorado – Thin clouds slide over the Front Range this morning as cold air pools along the plains. Tires hum on dry pavement now, but conditions will change quickly in the mountains and north of the metro....
Judge denies bond for family of Boulder attack suspect
An immigration judge recently denied bond to the family of the man accused of carrying out the Boulder attack.
Power returns to more than 4,000 customers in Lafayette, Louisville areas
Power was restored to over 4,000 people who were without power in the Lafayette and Louisville areas Wednesday night. Power initially went out at about 6:55 p.m. for 4,308 Xcel Energy customers, according to the utility’s online outage map. The map later showed two outages, one affecting 389 in...
Tax Tsunami: Colorado Homeowners Walloped By Surprise Bill Spikes
Colorado homeowners opening their property tax notices this winter are finding out the hard way what happens when temporary breaks expire. The short-term valuation discounts that softened bills over the last two years are gone, and many residents are staring at increases of 20% to more than 40%. For people on fixed...
Colorado DMV services will be down on these days for system upgrade
Coloradans who need to register or renew registration for their vehicle in February are encouraged to do so sooner rather than later as some Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles services will be disrupted in the middle of the month.
Denver DJ, civil rights advocate James “Dr. Daddio” Walker dies, family say
Starting in 1989, Walker owned and operated KDKO Radio, a Black-owned radio station that historically played R&B, soul, and blues, as well as talk radio programming.
Front Range students plan walkouts as part of nationwide anti-ICE protest
Montbello High School students marched Thursday while Brighton High plans Friday demonstration as part of nationwide protest movement
Weeks before Broomfield school fire, district sued over building failures
BROOMFIELD, Colo. — A December fire that shut down Thunder Vista P-8 in Broomfield and displaced hundreds of students may be tied to building problems the school district had already warned about in court. Lawsuit filings show Adams 12 Five Star Schools had accused the school’s architect and contractor of failing to...
Watch: Truck breaks through smoke shop front door, allowing thief to rob it
Commerce City police are looking for suspects after a truck drove into a smoke shop's front door, which later gave easy access to a thief who robbed the store later that night.
For years, Colorado Medicaid mistakenly paid a program’s providers several times too much —...
In November, Colorado Medicaid officials corrected a mistake. Five years earlier, they’d told contracted transportation providers in metro Denver to bill the state as if the providers were specialty ambulances. By 2022, those providers were billing the state for more than $640 for every pick-up. By 2025, the rate...

















