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“We were training them to take care of themselves, not just be a one time thing, or say we’ll be back in a year and do it again.”

At present, cops employed by the Denver Police Department are routinely allowed to view body-worn camera video before writing reports about officer-involved shootings or in-custody deaths. In a report accessible below, a committee advising the DPD on its use-of-force policy advocates that this policy be changed in order to even the playing field with other witnesses and prevent officers from being able to spin accounts in favorable ways that fit the footage. But Chief Robert White is noncommittal about whether he’ll take this counsel.

We recently revisited one of our most popular posts of 2014 by finding out what Google thinks about ten of Colorado’s biggest celebrities right now. But our fair state has more stars than that, as you’ll see below in our latest look at the questions most frequently posed about Colorado luminaries by people using the search engine.

Every Friday night since 2013, thousands of car enthusiasts have scanned their Facebook feeds, waiting for Manny Rivera to announce the first location and time of the weekly 1320 CC meetup (the club’s name is a reference to the length in feet of a quarter-mile drag race). When the information is live, hundreds scramble to gather for a “cruise.”

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science announced earlier this month that it was closing the eight-year-old City Park weather station due to the ongoing construction there. Almost every news channel in town references the number from this weather station as its official temperature.

Yesterday, November 27, the Denver Post set into motion its latest round of layoffs just over a year after shrinking the newsroom staff by 26 employees through the combination of a buyout offer and supplementary dismissals. Seven positions included in the Post’s contract with the Denver Newspaper Guild are affected, and another four employees working non-union gigs also appear to have been discharged.

The credit score required for renters to get approved in Denver remains among the highest in the country due in part to the still-red-hot housing market in the Mile High City.

What’s causing these amazing sunsets we’ve had through November? A calm weather pattern, which often leads to a cloud formation that can help turn our skies orange and red.

Travelers trying to get out of town for Thanksgiving on Wednesday ran into more than just usual traffic on the roads and the expected large crowds at Denver International Airport.