Colorado Winter Storm Warning: Up to 24 Inches of Snow and 55 mph Winds
Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Denver, CO – The National Weather Service in Denver has upgraded parts of the northern Colorado mountains to a Winter Storm Warning, with heavy snow and strong winds expected from late Friday night through...
Denver mayor’s legal bill for sanctuary city hearing tops $1 million
The bill for Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s legal defense for a March 5 hearing before the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on “sanctuary” cities just crossed the $1 million mark. City financial records show that a fourth payment of $250,000 was made to Covington & Burling LLC, the D.C.-based law...
Missing 14-year-old girl last seen on Colfax on Tuesday: CBI
A Missing Indigenous Person Alert was issued by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation Thursday night for a 14-year-old girl who was last seen Tuesday afternoon in Denver.
Denver halts program targeting youth prone to gun violence, for now
A City of Denver program that identified 7,500 of the city’s youth as being prone to gun violence is on hiatus, pending retooling, according to the Office of Neighborhood Safety.
National study reveals widespread drug use on public transit, impacting RTD’s safety strategy
A sweeping new national study is revealing just how widespread open drug use has become on public transit systems across North America.
Aurora undercover operation leads to arrest of man allegedly trying to lure 12-year-old
Aurora police have arrested a man they say tried to meet a child for sex during an undercover operation.
Her murder went unsolved for decades. DNA from paper bags now points to one...
For nearly four decades, investigators in Colorado searched for the person who s**ually assaulted and killed a 30-year-old woman found along a quiet stretch of rural highway south of Denver. Now, a small but carefully preserved piece of evidence — a pair of paper bags placed over the victim’s hands — has finally...
Castle Rock will penalize parents for children driving off-highway vehicles on roads
Castle Rock is mirroring an ordinance from Aurora that fines parents if they allow their child to ride or drive an off-highway vehicle within town limits.
Should this Colfax police station include housing?
The Denver Police Department will soon rebuild and expand its 51-year-old station on Colfax Avenue. However, the plan is missing one obvious addition, according to neighborhood leader Frank Locantore. Like most other police stations, it doesn’t have any affordable housing. Locantore, the head of the Colfax Avenue...
Jeffco SWAT member was drunk responding to Evergreen High School shooting
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office confirmed Thursday that a sergeant who was a member of the agency's SWAT team during its response to the Evergreen High School shooting on Sept. 10 was drunk.
