How Denver’s trash, recycling and compost system works: They’d rather teach you than fine...
Sean Brown has lived in cities where the trash and recycling police had extremely itchy pen fingers when it came to writing violations. Couple of paper bakery bags mixed in with the vegetable peel compost? Useless loose plastic wrap tossed into the recyclables with the valuable aluminum cans?. That’ll be...
Rider questions RTD’s after waiting more than hour in the middle of the night
Kim Beauchamp is just one of more than 150,000 people who took part in the record-breaking Metallica crowds and she relied on the light rail to get around that traffic.
EDITORIAL: Restore John Evans’ good name to its rightful place
In hindsight, our nation’s bout with “cancel culture” was mercifully short-lived. The rabble that hit the streets of U.S. cities in summer 2020 — toppling statues, burning buildings, silencing public speakers and denouncing, well, everything — was in retreat across much of the country a year or so later.
Nicolais: Alligator Alcatraz assault on detainees eclipses even the worst facilities in Colorado
Who knew the Aurora ICE Detention Center could be considered something less shameful than the Bastille of Colorado? That certainly was not on my bingo card for the Independence Day holiday weekend. Yet due to the bottomless immorality of the current administration, that is the reality. Do not get me...
‘Like Monkeys Trying to… a Coconut’: Black Workers at Colorado Wood Company Fired After...
Seven former Black employees at Woodgrain, Inc., a global wood products manufacturer, allege in a federal lawsuit that they were fired after complaining about racial […] ‘Like Monkeys Trying to… a Coconut’: Black Workers at Colorado Wood Company Fired After Petitioning Management About Racial Slurs and Lower Pay,...
Reader: The Harder You Make Parking, the Fewer People Will Come to Denver
Denver is one step closer to becoming the second Colorado city to abolish minimum parking requirements. Under the city's proposal, developers would be able to choose whether to include new parking spaces in construction projects, and existing businesses and housing complexes would be able to eliminate current...
Severe storms possible Sunday, triple-digit heat likely midweek
An active weather pattern kicks off the week in Colorado, with scattered thunderstorms today and Monday, followed by a dramatic shift to intense midweek heat.
A Colorado trucking school is trying to train drivers to handle the unique challenges...
A multivehicle wreck last month involving two tractor trailers descending westbound from Eisenhower Johnson Memorial Tunnel injured five people — one critically — and closed Interstate 70 for more than eight hours. The driver of one truck, who was later cited for reckless driving, reportedly lost his brakes...
Denver native, Earth, Wind & Fire vocalist Philip Bailey answers fans’ burning questions
Denver native and lead singer of legendary Grammy and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame award-winning funk, soul, and R&B group Earth, Wind & Fire, Philip Bailey, recently talked with Colorado Matters Host Chandra Thomas Whitfield. The legendary band kicked off its 20-plus city tour now underway across North America with a...
Good Samaritan drives man to hospital after he was shot in Aurora
Police are investigating a shooting that occurred on Friday night in Aurora,
