Colorado Department of Transportation

Colfax is moving quickly -- and we're going along for the ride

Jerome Boulay was buried in snow for hours but survived deadliest avalanche in fifty years

Earlier this week, we shared the shocking news of an avalanche near Loveland Pass that killed five people taking part in a fundraising event for the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, with a sixth, Jerome Boulay, somehow surviving after being buried in the snow for four hours. Now, the CAIC has ... More >>

Michael Hancock announces stock show will stay here in Denver -- but which here?

Mayor-elect Michael Hancock hadn't even moved into his office in City Hall when he learned that claim jumpers were trying to woo one of Denver's longtime institutions: the National Western Stock Show. That discovery quickly followed the revelation that Aurora had been working with Gaylord Entertainm ... More >>

Photos: Meet the Eisenhower Tunnel crew trying to prevent you from getting stuck in gridlock

As part of this week's feature, "Rocky Mountain High," we went inside the control room of the Eisenhower Tunnel, the world's highest vehicular tunnel, which famously crosses the Continental Divide. More than 300 million cars have passed through since 1973, and the rate today is twice what is was thi ... More >>

NORML exec predicts THC driving bill's return, hopes for improvement

Update: As we reported below, the much-debated THC driving bill died because Senator Nancy Spence, whose vote made the difference between passage and failure, was on vacation. But even as opponents of the measure celebrate this left-field victory, Allen St. Pierre, executive director of NORML, which ... More >>

Gaylord hotel project: Meet the locals in love with it (and one guy against it)

Frank Gray is president of the Castle Rock Economic Development Council in Douglas County. Yet at a public hearing yesterday on six projects vying for big-bucks state tourism incentives, Gray eschewed his county's own project and, like many of the 23 people who testified, spoke in favor of Gaylord E ... More >>

Rocky Flats land swap on the rocks after Golden files suit to stop it

Jacob Smith.​Last month it looked like the last roadblocks would be removed to a Rocky Flats land swap that would make 600 acres currently owned by the State Land Board on the southwest corner of the former plutonium-processing plant part of what's now a federal wildlife refuge -- and the U.S. ... More >>

Plans for the Jefferson County Parkway are kicking up lots of dust

Here are your 2011 Denver #WebAwards news winners

​Here are the winners of the 2011 Denver #WebAwards in the category we're loosely dubbing "news," which means Westword scribes report on the happenings in these beats, right here on Latest Word. These are the winners only; for a complete list of finalists go here: "Here are your 2011 Denver #W ... More >>

2011 Denver #WebAwards winners announced!

Photos: 2011 Denver #WebAwards party

Christo's Over the River is over the hump

Christo, Over The River, Project For The Arkansas River, State of Colorado Photo: Wolfgang Volz, © Christo 2008​ Word came down yesterday from the Bureau of Land Management in favor of large-scale installation artist Christo's Over the River project slated to cover areas over a 42-mile stretc ... More >>

THC driving limit: Task Force member says no recommendation wouldn't stop new bill

​Yesterday, the Drug Policy Task Force met to consider THC driving limits. The DUID-marijuana working group studying the subject couldn't agree on a proposal last week, and Task Force member Senator Pat Steadman thinks its inability to do so may prevent THC-driving legislation from being bless ... More >>

Xcel's plan to convert its coal plants sparks an energetic debate

A few of our favorite things

We love the people who love Denver; here are few of their personal bests.

Neo-Nazis' adopt-a-highway sign on the move: Department of Transportation says, "Oops! Our bad!"

This sign is headed down the road a piece.​On Monday, we told you about the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group, taking part in the Colorado Department of Transportation's adopt-a-highway program -- and CDOT's conclusion that stopping it from doing so was impossible. Now, a new deve ... More >>

2009 Hall of Shame

Denver's latest traffic plan depends on getting you out of your car

Wake-Up Call: The week ahead, December 15-21

While the Obama cabinet carousel -- Ritter! Salazar (Ken)! Salazar (John)! Michael Bennet! Salazar (Ken, again)! -- continues to go 'round, with a name thrown out each week (although now, with Ken Salazar back in the ring for Interior, we're on repeats) -- Colorado's top Dems will gather at t ... More >>

A Denver Health paramedic fakes his license, and his boss keeps it under wraps

Union Station may become Denver's gateway again -- if it stays on track

Ray Ruybal Made His Mark

The longtime head of Denver's graffiti unit fought to clean up the city -- until he felt he was beating his head against the wall.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of 9/6/2007

Mouthpiece

Onetime Post city editor Evan Dreyer has gone from covering the news to helping make it, as Bill Ritter's communications director.

Down but Not (Yet) Out

Where there's smoke, there's ire.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of December 15, 2005

My Way for the Highway

North Denver neighbors get a crash course in I-70's future.

Paving the Way

Central City gambles on its future. Again.

Beneath the Beast

A tile mural by Martha Daniels aims to ennoble an ignoble public space.

The Alternative Voter’s Guide

The Legislative Council’s ballot-analysis booklet has inspired so many fights, it should be called the black-and-blue book. Here’s our cure.

Off Limits

Dialing for attention

Off Limits

Pressing engagements

Mr. Stanley, We Presume

It's ready, fire, aim for the Libertarian candidate for Senate.

Weather or Not

Despite advances in forecasting technology, predicting the weather is often a crapshoot.

Crosstown Traffic

Community-radio advocates and the Colorado Department of Transportation wind up in gridlock.

Downhill to Disneyland

The slopes are crowded, so why aren't Colorado resorts rolling in cold cash?

Penned In

Tired of trying to get around the Stock Show, Globeville residents want the Stock Show to get around them.

Off Limits

Party crechers

Off Limits

Rocky Mountain hype

A Hard Drive

Gordon Ulrickson wants to open a computer museum, but he doesn't have the storage.

Ridden Out on a Rail

There's no room for rail on CDOT's road to the future.

What You See Is What You Get

The anatomy of a newscast.

Hammer Time

Up, up and away with Denver's most entertaining traffic reporter.

Rough and Ready

Riff Raff at The Ralph Waldo Emerson Center.

Going With the Flow

Glendale gets a lesson in the politics of pollution.

It's the Rail Thing

For some Lakewood homeowners, RTD's proposed light-rail line looms too close for comfort.

Unfinished Business

Keeping track of the political--and personal--agendas at stake in RTD board races.

LETTERS

LETTERS

ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD

AFTER YEARS OF TENDING TO TRAVELERS, THE STATE LINE CAFE GETS READY FOR SUPPER.

SICK TRANSIT

HE'S LEFT A TRAIL OF ANGRY CREDITORS AND ONCE SUED THE STATE AFTER FALLING OFF A BRIDGE. DAVID SHORTRIDGE SAYS HE'S A NATURAL CANDIDATE FOR THE RTD BOARD.