The Colorado Department of Transportation is expecting to reopen northbound Interstate 25 near the Dry Creek exit at 5 a.m. today, June 1, in the wake of a massive tanker explosion that closed the highway for well over twelve hours. Southbound I-25 at Belleview reopened at around midnight.
June is the month for a lot of things: it’s Celibacy Awareness Month, National Bathroom Reading Month, and somehow Fireworks Safety Month, which clearly seems like a month too early. You have to wonder what sort of power and money the Fireworks lobbyists must have to have kept that out of July, when apparently it’s Do Whatever with Fireworks Month. But of course, it’s also the first month of summer, so here are ten things for you to remember in June—along with your SPF 100 sunscreen and some shades that don’t make you look like you’re trying too hard.
Yet another survey confirms what we already know: Denver is the most popular place to move to in the United States. At least, so said 1,000 respondents in a recent nationwide survey compiled by the real estate website homes.com. Choosing between six major U.S. cities — Denver, Los Angeles, New York City,…
After last month’s abrupt cancellation of the morning show starring Larry Ulibarri and Kathie J, KS 107.5 has replaced the audience favorites with the crew of Tony V, Cedes and DJ Chonz. It’s a surprising team-up, given that both Cedes and Chonz left the station last year.
Last Friday, Governor Hickenlooper signed a bill finalizing Colorado’s budget for 2017-18. Last year the legalized marijuana industry brought in $200 million in taxes and this budget gives us an idea of where that money is actually going
Sportswriter Terry Frei’s departure from the Denver Post following a tweet in which he announced that he was “very uncomfortable with a Japanese driver winning the Indianapolis 500 during Memorial Day weekend” made for a notably ugly exit. But it’s hardly unprecedented. Indeed, Westword has chronicled a number of bizarre firings or resignations at the paper over the years, involving plagiarism charges, gambling allegations and a previous Twitter scandal spurred by an uncomfortable come-on to a female hockey fan.
A new study maintains that Colorado has the third most serious drug problem of any state, with the highest percentage of both teenage and adult drug users in the country. However, the findings contradict a recent Colorado report showing that teen marijuana use here is actually below the national average. And the adult use statistics don’t take into account the fact that cannabis consumption is legal for those over age 21 in Colorado.
The National Western Center is galloping ahead with plans to become a year-round destination and regional asset, and recently sent a survey to stakeholders, geared toward creating a unified brand for the billion-dollar project.
Representative Ed Perlmutter is currently the biggest name to have announced that he’s running for Colorado in 2018, and the Democrat, who’s represented the state’s 7th Congressional District since 2007, emphasizes his experience and willingness to reach across the aisle in a wide-ranging interview.
The conclusion of an amended autopsy report for John Patrick Walter, who died in Fremont County jail on April 20, 2014, has been changed from “undetermined” to acute withdrawal from benzodiazepine, a prescribed medication that was withheld from him by staff during his incarceration. The findings echo claims made in a lawsuit filed about Walter’s death, and Erik Heipt, an attorney for his family, feels the results would have been known years ago if not for obstruction by Fremont County officials.
The fifth-graders in Michael Diaz-Rivera’s classroom are anxious for summer. The boys in the front fidget under rows of fluorescent lights, and a few students have their heads on their desks. But everyone perks up when the 31-year-old teacher clears his throat and begins class. “As you can see, today…
Longtime Denver Post sports sportswriter Terry Frei has been disappeared from the paper following a tweet in which he announced that he was “very uncomfortable with a Japanese driver winning the Indianapolis 500 during Memorial Day weekend.” But while Frei’s ouster is embarrassing, the incident could also prove beneficial to the Post’s bottom line during a time of financial stress epitomized by its decision to move its newsroom out of Denver.
The 420 Rally has always attracted teenagers, but that doesn’t mean that cannabis use among Colorado’s kids has increased.
On Memorial Day, law enforcement authorities will be setting up checkpoints all over metro Denver. But while it’s easy to test drivers for alcohol impairment, it’s far more difficult to do accurate testing for THC, and the result can be unfair to cannabis consumers,
Denver has seven golf public golf courses, and a reader recently suggested that some of the Denver golf courses be turned into public parks “or opened up for festivals and other special events.” Now another reader responds.
In November, Colorado voters approved Amendment 70, which will gradually increase the state minimum wage from the current $9.30 an hour to $12 by 2020. But the proposal’s success hasn’t slowed the complaints about low wages in Denver, including one pushing the Fight for $15 campaign at the McDonald’s on…
The comments just keep coming about the 420 Rally last month, and the city’s response issued last weekend, which would fine the organizers of the event $12,000, and ban them from applying for another Denver permit in any park for the next three years. The organizers plan to appeal that ruling, and in the meantime, readers are issuing their own verdicts.
As with most things Trump, Alan Prendergast’s Slaughter ’Em: The Trump Plan to Solve the West’s Wild Horse Problem, a story about the president’s plan to control the West’s wild horses population, drew plenty of comments from our readers. Some were sympathetic to the majestic beasts, others not so much. Says…
James Pennington is the kind of person who would probably jump off a bridge if a friend told him to. Earlier this month, Pennington removed the testicles of a transgender woman in a Denver apartment at her behest. Pennington isn’t a licensed doctor in Colorado, according to 9NEWS. He’s a…
A lawyer for Denver residents challenging a $300-million stormwater project says that city officials are being excessively secretive about the case, declining to provide more than 7400 pages of documents and maintaining that the internal processes that brought the project into being should be shielded from outside scrutiny.
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard is a Lakota historian and member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota. In April 2016, she started the Sacred Stone Camp, the first occupation to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline. Allard was named 2017’s Rebel with a Cause Honoree at Conservation Colorado’s Rebel…
Over the past few years, the historic Wyatt Academy in Denver’s Cole neighborhood has had about twenty of its windows replaced and the masonry on the building’s western elevation repaired with the help of a $200,000 grant from the State Historical Fund. The new windows are historically appropriate in appearance…
