Mosquito-borne illness kills person in Colorado with more deaths likely as summer progresses
Colorado's first West Nile Virus-related death of 2025 has occurred, involving a Boulder County resident. Denver Gazette reports that the adult who died was from Lafayette. It's also worth noting that nine other cases have been confirmed across eight counties thus far this year, though these cases have not proven...
‘A playground for restless youth:’ Looking back at cruising in Longmont
The year is 1987. It’s a May evening in Longmont, and summer is just around the corner. Local high school graduations are expected to draw heavy traffic downtown. For a brief time that spring evening, Main Street is wide open. That is, until the cars start filing onto the city’s central thoroughfare, motorists taking...
Proposed training-based Denver police discipline policy isn’t really discipline at all, OIM says
Had the independent monitor not made a stink this week about a proposed new Denver Police Department policy, most people may not have known about it until it already was implemented. But now the policy will come back to the council’s Health and Safety Committee of the City Council for a full briefing and public...
Pedestrian dies after being hit by car in Denver’s Hampden neighborhood
A pedestrian died Friday night after being hit by a car in southeastern Denver.
Body found in Westminster open space where human bone was found earlier this month
On Thursday morning, Westminster police detectives found a body with personal belongings in the open space near 122nd Avenue and Park Centre Drive.
Denver leader of large-scale drug-trafficking organization sentenced to 30 years in prison
A Denver man who was convicted earlier this year by a federal jury for his part in a large-scale drug-trafficking organization was sentenced Thursday.
Billings man coping with loss of wife, two children in Colorado car crash
Vernon Smith is the sole survivor of the collision, which occurred while the family was traveling to Arkansas for his mother's funeral.
New Colorado Music Venue Will Be Under a Bridge
Colorado is home to a wide variety of music venues, some of which may be considered unconventional to many. Federal Theatre's New Life As A Music Venue In Denver |. Denver was once home to the Fox Street Compound, which appeared to have once been a lumber yard, and is currently home to The Junk Yard, which, at one...
ICE makes 243 arrests in Denver metro area; two music festivals open today
ICE makes 243 arrests in the Denver Metro in a nine-day operation. According to the Office of Homeland Security, federal immigration agents announced that they had made 243 arrests of immigrants lacking permanent legal status from July 12 to July 20. ICE only provided information on crimes committed by 50...
Denver rent is back to 2022 prices
Apartment rents in the Denver metro continue to slide. The average rent in the area fell 3.7 percent in the second quarter compared to the prior year, according to a new report from the Apartment Association of Metro Denver. Rents started falling at the end of last year, the association’s data show.