While tourists during the busy summer travel season typically pay close attention to ticket prices, most don’t consider costs related to the airports from which they’re coming and going. But a new analysis shows there are big differences in terms of expenses from one facility to another, with Denver International Airport winding up as one of the ten best big-city values in the country.
The New York Times released a hyper-local map outlining the 2016 election, and it’s so detailed it almost allows you to see how your friends and neighbors voted.
A lawsuit filed this week in U.S. District Court argues that a new State of Colorado complaint about Masterpiece Cakeshop, whose owner, Jack Phillips, won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June over his 2012 refusal to make a wedding cake for a gay couple because of his Christian views, is essentially harassment that could have dire consequences.
Be sure to consult a health-care professional before choosing which method to try.
Tay Anderson was the youngest person to ever run for Denver’s Board of Education. This week, he announced he’s running again, this time for its at-large seat.
We’ve called hash vaporizers the brown paper bags of toking in public in the past, but one new study shows you don’t even need to go that far to get high on the street.
On Tuesday, August 14, Jena Affinito had just woken up and let her dogs out into the side yard of her home. As she stepped out the door to follow them, an explosion ripped through the roof of the building across the street, the force of which smacked her back into her house.
Late last year, the ACLU of Colorado put together a graphic highlighting six cases of alleged mistreatment of black suspects by members of the Aurora Police Department since 2015. With recent payouts to Omar Hassan and Dwight Crews, the City of Aurora has now settled five of the six cases for a cumulative total of $3.12 million in taxpayer money.
We asked Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald, a veterinarian at Alameda East Veterinary Hospital as well as a star of two past Animal Planet programs, Emergency Vets and E-Vet Interns, and a regular on the Denver stand-up comedy scene, to share some of his rattlesnake knowledge, and the information he provides here is filled with fascinating factoids.
Cliff Willmeng is the Green Party candidate for Boulder County commissioner. He’s also a socialist, and he sees his possible win in the November election as “a game changer…. Coming into office as Boulder County’s first socialist would be historic. I don’t know how else to describe it.”
This sativa-leaning hybrid is much more gentle than you’d imagine.
Ten people have been injured, one critically, following an explosion at a fourplex at Santa Fe Drive and Fourth Avenue likely due to a natural gas leak.
The Gazette acknowledges that Walker Stapleton’s great-grandfather, Benjamin Stapleton — who was a five term mayor of Denver — was a once a Klansman. But in a bizarre twist, the editorial also seems to suggest that Polis may have more of a tie to the KKK than Stapleton does.
Jennie Bunsom has been identified as the sixteen-year-old being charged as an adult for the murder of Jordan Vong, her seven-year-old nephew. And a newly released probable-cause statement in the case maintains that she committed the act in the Montbello home they shared after he became frustrated over her refusal to play video games with him.
In May, Broomfield police arrested an undocumented immigrant named Mario Carlos Amaya Ortega and handed him over to ICE, which deported him to El Salvador. But immigration law experts say the original arrest was illegal.
Denver City Council is about to consider a five-year affordable housing plan. Before a scheduled reading on August 20, we caught up with Councilmember At-large Robin Kniech, who has been the council’s representative on the Mayor’s Housing Advisory Committee and has seen a lot of the considerations – and challenges – in putting the affordable housing plan together.
Colorado’s marijuana black market has become significantly smaller than the rest of the country’s since dispensaries showed up, it hasn’t evaporated.
U.S. News & World Report has just released its 2018 roster for the best hospitals in the country, as well as for each state. The highest finishers in Colorado are mainly clustered in the metro area, with the number one facility ranking nationally in eleven specialty areas and first in the country in one.
Sadly, this looks like more of a trend than a phase.
Tom Upah says he’s been told by his son and at least one person involved in his case that after being diagnosed as mentally ill, Jonathan was kept in solitary confinement at Denver’s downtown detention center for 23 out of 24 hours each day.
A recent study reveals how much money is required to break into the top 1 percent by income in cities and counties across Colorado, and the numbers at the top of the charts are eye-popping.
Jared Polis has made universal health care a cornerstone of his campaign. But what, exactly, is universal health care, and how will he implement it?
