The reward being offered for information about the person or persons who killed Travis Mason, a former Marine who was fatally shot while working as a security guard at a marijuana dispensary in June 2016, has been increased to $55,000, more than triple the original amount. Authorities hope the increase will help break the case that’s remained unsolved for more than a year.
Gerrymandering, or the drawing of political voting maps to benefit a political party, is getting major national attention because of its perceived impact on legislatures that are skewed heavily toward one party.
Long before light rail came to Denver, there were streetcars. Now University of Denver graduate student Ryan Keeney has documented and digitized every streetcar line that ever existed in Denver, from the system’s start in 1872 to its end in 1950.
Samuel Brunelus, a 23-year-old from Florida, has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and more in relation to the deaths of two men to whom he allegedly provided heroin laced with carfentanil, an extremely powerful synthetic opioid best known as an elephant tranquilizer.
According to a new study, the number of high-poverty neighborhoods in the Denver metro area nearly tripled over a fifteen-year period, due in part to high housing costs. In addition, poverty is increasing more quickly in the suburbs than in the city itself.
Five years ago today, James Holmes killed twelve people and injured seventy others during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises at the Century 16 theater in Aurora. In the 24 hours afterward, Westword published twenty stories that, when viewed in retrospect, capture the terror and confusion unleashed by this horrific crime.
Still trying to figure out what this 7/10 thing is? Our Stoner is here to clear things up.
The dream of a world-class speedway was kept alive on Tuesday, July 18th by an Aurora judge, who ruled in favor of a recent city council charter amendment that would remove the 1999 ban on speedway subsidization while paving the way for a massive “entertainment district” in Northeast Aurora.
This morning, Denver City Council members Robin Kniech and Paul Lopez introduced a draft of a bill that they’ve been working on that would codify and clarify Denver’s practices around federal immigration enforcement and interacting with ICE. Kniech and Lopez held a listening session with the public to answer questions…
The National Cybersecurity Center has its origins in an economic development trip that Governor John Hickenlooper took in 2015, when he visited Tel Aviv and learned about an Israeli cybersecurity center that brings together government officials, university researchers and private businesses to trade knowledge about preventing cyberattacks.
The July 10 death of William Anderson, a forty-year-old inmate at Denver’s main jail, has led to a war of words between the Denver Sheriff Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Anderson died during a fight with fellow detainee Ricardo Lopez-Vera, nineteen. But while the Denver District Attorney’s Office declined to charge Lopez-Vera in the incident, his undocumented status led to detention by ICE, which claims the DSD released him without properly informing the federal agency even though there was an immigration hold on him.
Coloradans will unwrap one big gift this Thursday, July 20, when the Levitt Pavilion begins its first season of nearly thirty free concerts and shows at Ruby Hill Park. Colorado Harvest Company dispensary chain CEO is especially excited to attend the first show, partly because it’s one he helped create.
William Scott Planer, who was accused online of violent activity and affiliation with white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups in the Capitol Hill neighborhood late last year, has been arrested in Colorado Springs. He was initially charged with a misdemeanor for placing an anti-Semitic sticker on the door of a synagogue, but he is currently being held on a $500,000 bond related to a felony charge in California, where he allegedly attacked a protester during a white supremacist rally in California last year.
KNUS morning host Peter Boyles is among the last people still standing from the golden age of Denver radio, and he’s not planning to lay down anytime soon, as he makes clear throughout a wide-ranging interview in which he defends many of his most controversial views while offering a very personal history of a medium whose future prospects remain very much in flux.
The 66-year-old man who died in a kayaking accident on the Yampa River on July 15 has been identified as Michael Brinks, a resident of Craig.
Juicy Fruit, or Juicy Fruit Thai in some circles, is a classic hybrid strain from Sensi Seeds that combines the pure landrace genetics of an Afghani indica and a Thai sativa.
Aurora has taken the advantage of $900,000 in marijuana revenue in opening the Aurora Day Resource Center. The space, an old gym for the Aurora Police Department, is intended to give the homeless have a place to go during the day, when they cannot be in overnight shelters like the neighboring Comitis Crisis Center.
The Globeville, Elyria-Swansea Coalition Organizing for Health and Housing Justice released a comprehensive survey that finds that residents of GES are in the early stages of experiencing mass displacement as a result of the influx of development in their neighborhoods.
Recently declassified documents reveal that Colorado computers were amount the earliest targets in the first confirmed intergovernmental cyberwarfare campaign: a two-year-long operation carried out by Russia against the U.S. in the late ’90s that was dubbed “Moonlight Maze.”
Former El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa will be retried in relation to four corruption charges on which a previous jury was unable to reach a verdict. Selection of a new jury is scheduled to get underway on October 3, the same day that Undersheriff Paula Presley, a former romantic partner of Maketa’s, will be put on trial for accusations that emerged from the sexy scandal.
So many streets are experiencing lane shutdowns or complete closures because of construction in the Denver area right now that getting from one point to another without sprouting an epic migraine is practically impossible. If a team of experts spent months trying to create the perfect formula for inspiring road rage, they couldn’t do better than this.
Herbal Imports, a retail shop selling kratom and other imported herbs, has doubled down on Denver’s need for leafy remedies by opening a second location in Glendale.
