Colorado’s Unsung Mountain Town Near Denver Is A Quiet Riverside Getaway With Fishing, Canyons,...
Hidden in the foothills of the stunning Rocky Mountains, Pine, Colorado, often referred to as Pine Grove, Colorado, is a stunning mountain town along the South Platte River. While it may be a small town, home to less than 4,000 people, Pine still packs quite the punch in terms of fishing and other outdoor recreation...
Drone shows light up Independence Day skies in Northern Colorado
Some Colorado communities are opting for drone shows over traditional July Fourth fireworks this year. A fleet of illuminated drones can create a variety of images through flying formations. Colorado-based Brightflight Drone Shows put on a patriotic display at Denver’s Indy Eve event Thursday night. Brightflight...
‘Sky crane’ helicopters replace wildfire planes at Colorado airport
The U.S. Forest Service has shifted aerial wildfire firefighting resources along Colorado's Front Range. Two large 'sky crane' helicopters were moved into position at Broomfield's Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport this week.
Colorado clinicians react with shock and sadness to rate changes for mental health care
This Spring, Michelle Lefco-Rockey, the owner of Creekside Collaborative Therapy in Greenwood Village, said she that got word from the state agency in charge of Medicaid about a possible change in rates. Then, this week, she got confirmation. “It kind of was a shock on Friday morning to wake up,...
ICE arrest of student after traffic stop spotlights Colorado’s non-cooperation policy
On June 5, a University of Utah student was pulled over by a Mesa County police officer for following a semitrailer too closely. Caroline Dias Goncalves was asked where she was born and was released with a warning. But after exiting Interstate 70 at Loma, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents...
Woman suspected in 2009 cold case killing of Bay Area newborn arrested in Colorado
More than 16 years after a newborn girl was found dead in a San Francisco Bay Area dumpster, police have announced a Colorado woman has been arrested and charged with her murder.
Firefighter Who Founded Company to Make Cars Safer for Kids Dies After Taking Scuba...
Greg Durocher died after experiencing "difficulty breathing" while taking a scuba diving lesson in Hawaii
SAFER helped slow the jail-to-streets homelessness cycle. Now, the shelter is closing
Sarah Marie Wright lay in her bed, uncertain where she’d go next. She and the other residents of the SAFER shelter learned on Tuesday that they will be forced to move in just over two weeks. The SAFER shelter was set up by Mental Health Colorado in a Centennial...
Denver will pay $19 million to The Salvation Army to run Denver homeless shelters
For the first six months of the year, The Salvation Army ran Mayor Mike Johnston’s All In Mile High individual shelters without being paid for its work. The organization has been tapping its reserves, essentially floating the city a non-interest loan for millions of dollars while the Johnston administration, the...
Amid threats to liberty, July 4 inspires anew
Thomas Paine in “Common Sense,” which helped persuade colonists to fight for independence from the British crown, faulted King George III for qualities that are all too familiar to Americans today. The king had been “an inveterate enemy to liberty, and discovered such a thirst for arbitrary power,” Paine wrote,...