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SWAT arrests Colorado parolee hauling enough fentanyl “to kill 88% of Weld County”

A 44-year-old Aurora resident was recently sentenced to 159 years in prison after he was caught hauling roughly 11 pounds of methamphetamine and 6,000 counterfeit pills containing fentanyl.
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Riverfront Showdown: Denver Printer Fights Quiktrip Gas Stop In South Platte Floodplain

Publication Printers, a longtime Denver printing outfit tucked along the South Platte River, is squaring off with the city over a key sewer and drainage permit that paved the way for a new QuikTrip gas station on a slim riverfront parcel. The company argues the site sits in a FEMA-designated floodplain and is too...
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Downtown Mexican Restaurant Reopens on 16th Street

Otra Vez Cantina, the Mexican joint that opened on what was then the 16th Street Mall back in 2017 and took a very long pandemic break, is finally back. During its soft opening over the weekend, Otra Vez enjoyed a literal warm welcome, with the garage-door front open wide as guests invited or not strolled in off...
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How much snow fell in Colorado over the weekend?

Many Coloradans across the Front Range and Denver metro area woke up Sunday morning to several inches of snow after a warm Saturday.
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Cover All Meltdown: Denver Pols Plot Cuts As Costs Go Off The Rails

What was pitched as a modest expansion of Colorado's safety net has quickly turned into a budget headache. Colorado's Cover All Coloradans health program, created to extend Medicaid-style benefits to children and pregnant people regardless of immigration status, has ballooned in use and spending since it went live on...
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Mystery Midnight Hum Rattles Aurora Reservoir Neighbors Over Fracking Fears

Sleep has become optional for some families near Aurora Reservoir, where a sudden, low droning sound has started cutting through the quiet overnight. Neighbors say the hum is new, unnerving, and likely tied to nearby fracking operations associated with the Lowry Ranch project. A homeowner's audio file captured the...
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Facebook Jewelry Deal Turns Aurora Home Into Crime Scene, Denver Man Gets 75 Years

A Facebook Marketplace jewelry sale in Aurora ended with a decades-long prison sentence for a Denver man, after a jury found he turned an online listing into a violent home invasion while two children were inside the apartment. Frayer Contreras-Gafaro, 24, was sentenced to 75 years in prison after what prosecutors...
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Colorado teen found safe after going missing for 2 days

LITTLETON, Colo. (KKTV) - UPDATE (3/16): A 14-year-old girl has been found safe after going missing for more than 48 hours. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation announced Sunday afternoon that Zoe Jiminez had been located. There had been fears the teen was a danger to herself. __________________. PREVIOUS: A...
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Littwin: Denver Post to City: Drop Dead

It’s bad enough what the vulture capitalists at Alden Global Capital have done to the Denver Post, to its readers and to journalism as we once knew it. But Alden, the rapacious hedge fund that owns/decimates newspapers across the country, including not a few across Colorado, hasn’t stopped there.
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The Turnberry tension: Adams County lawsuit highlights questions around metro districts

Homeowners of a small neighborhood in Commerce City remain confused and irate about the future of their property taxes in the aftermath of a lawsuit between the metropolitan district where they live and a bank. The conflict stems from a 2023 lawsuit in which UMB Bank alleged the BNC2 Metropolitan District No. 2 was...

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