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Parker is giving its history a second look

Parker's starting over on how it tells its story. Zoom in: The town spent the past 45 years growing into a destination — a 72,000-resident suburb with schools, sprawling trails, ever-developing neighborhoods and a new, $400+ million Mainstreet transformation. Yes, but: Parker's struggled to explain how this place becam
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Skip I-70: Boulder’s Better Mountain-Day Routes

The drive from Denver’s western edge to the Eisenhower Tunnel should take less than an hour. An Outside reporter timed it at two hours and fifteen minutes from the Dino Lots to the tunnel—on a stretch that should take less than an hour without traffic. She skied Copper Mountain, checked the map for the drive home and f
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Hundreds Of Bears Euthanized in Colorado This Year

Far too many bears have been euthanized this year in Colorado
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Could we get a green arrow light at 120th and Tower to get through...

Jennifer from Brighton says the intersection at 120th and Tower has become very busy and is frustrated with the single lane and long line of cars to get through the light.
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Denver commits $50M to restore Sloan’s Lake

Denver is investing $50M to restore Sloan's Lake, targeting algae, sediment, and water quality. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston's office announced a $50 million investment to restore the lake.
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Drought increasingly driving hungry bears into metro area communities — video

DENVER | Patrick Sullivan was sure it was a “crazy neighbor” honking a car horn nonstop while Sullivan was up feeding his infant son at 3 a.m. one night this summer. It was a neighbor all right, but not a human one. A black bear had opened the...
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Wyoming irrigation, Colorado reservoir go to court amid ‘$819 million bathtub’ warning

"Ranchers and farmers are likely going to be subject to being forced to send water downstream."
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“Why go to 16th Street when there are places like Tennyson?”

Is downtown back up? Not yet, but Westword Editor Emeritus Patricia Calhoun has been spending time on 16th Street and around Lower Downtown lately, and she sees a lot of potential. Potential and results are two different things, though, and downtown Denver remains in the “trying” phase as it fights a sustained COVID dr
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It’s not just Flock. These license plate readers may also be in your Colorado...

Backlash against Flock cameras has been growing in recent months, but the surveillance equipment company isn't the only one that may be operating in your neighborhood right here in Colorado.
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Synthetic kratom 7-OH led to two Yampa Valley deaths

As she plans this weekend’s celebration of life for her only son, who died in May in Steamboat Springs, mom Stephanie Rausser remains “enraged.”. “The fact that this substance is so toxic and readily available, there is not even room for all that rage yet,” said Rausser, speaking of the synthetic drug known as 7-OH, or

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