On Tuesday afternoon, attorneys for six underage plaintiffs will be arguing that the state’s oil-and-gas regulators should be doing more — a hell of a lot more — to protect Colorado’s children from the real and potential ill effects of the fracking industry.
Roberta Smith, occupational health program manger at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, hasn’t heard of anyone dying in an industrial accident at a Colorado marijuana business. But she says dispensaries, grows and the like present unusual safety risks.
Our Stoner gets the definitive answer on how many pot plants are allowed in Denver.
Ever Valles, one of two men arrested after the February 7 RTD light-rail station murder of Tim Cruz, is due in court today after being formally charged with murder and more by the Denver District Attorney’s Office. The case has garnered national attention, especially in the conservative press, thanks to the revelation that Valles, who’s from Mexico, was released by the Denver Sheriff Department in December 2016 after his arrest for another crime despite him being targeted for deportation.
Tumbleweed Express is set to open in Parachute, Colorado, in March and it’s going to have something no other dispensary in the state does — a drive-thru.
The Aurora Police Department is actively investigating a murder attempt allegedly committed by Richard Darling a year before his 2015 arrest for an incredibly brutal Halloween night slaying in which he’s accused of dismembering and “filleting” the body of his victim before stuffing it into a barrel and setting it ablaze.
As executive director of the Harm Reduction Action Center, Lisa Raville knows a lot about the community of injection drug users in Denver. The harm-reduction method calls for promoting a syringe-exchange program, including clean needles and safe disposal sites for those needles. Raville wants to bring medical-level facilities to the…
During a recent inspection by the Denver Fire Department, the Salvation Army’s Crossroads Homeless Shelter, which houses more than 550 men per night on average, was found to be in violation of several fire codes. According to Denver Fire Department spokeswoman Melissa Taylor, the shelter on 29th Street has been…
Denver International Airport has reached a decision that will ease taxi congestion and level the playing field for Denver cabbies vying for airport fares.
Joel Bryant is exploring what it would take to open a full-service restaurant in the Lumber Baron Inn, the bed and breakfast in Denver’s Potter Highlands neighborhood he purchased last year for $1.7 million.
A bill introduced in the Colorado Senate last week would allow you to get weed delivered to your house. Dispensaries would have to apply for a delivery endorsement and then have an employee or approved contractor drive recreational or medical cannabis, or cannabis products, right to your door.
The Presidents’ Day holiday inspired a number of political rallies at the State Capitol and Civic Center Park, and the Not My President’s Day protests against Donald Trump were just the start of the action this week.
Whatever your feelings of the current commander and chief, it’s hard to deny the flurry of protest activity ignited by President Donald Trump and his administration.
As discussion of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies heats up, so does the debate over whether Denver is a sanctuary city – especially now that news of Jeanette Vizguerra seeking shelter in a local church has gone national.
Concentrates are a popular variation of cannabis. Whether you prefer budder, shatter, wax or oil, concentrates dominated the market in 2016 and were the top-selling marijuana product in Colorado. Here’s a look at some of the most beautiful concentrates from Colorado:
Plans by Colorado Department of Transportation officials to make a formal presentation on I-70 expansion plans quickly fell by the wayside as opponents crowded into the Swansea Recreation Center to make their own case for the project to be stopped or re-routed.
A memo sent under the name of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and shared below says that National Guard troops could be deployed in Colorado to round up immigrants. And while the spokesman for President Donald Trump has declared the document to be “not true,” the prospect of troops known in Colorado for actions like helping victims of the 2013 Lyons flood being used for such a purpose is likely to send shock waves through the community.
Hundreds of Denver residents contacted Mayor Michael Hancock’s office following President Trump’s executive order, issued on January 25, that threatens to pull federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities that protect undocumented residents from federal immigration enforcement. Through a Colorado Open Records Act request, Westword obtained data about the number of…
The medicinal uses of marijuana span a wide variety of diseases and disorders, but a recent study conducted by Colorado State University indicates cannabis may not be as useful for treating depression and anxiety.I
Rachel Einspahr, 29, has pleaded guilty to several charges associated with one of the most bizarre bank robberies in recent memory. She now admits to having attempted to hold up a financial institution in the company of two kids she was babysitting at the time.
Kat York, co-owner of Boosted E-Juice, is going to Washington, D.C., next week to meet with Colorado representatives and fight for a change in vaping regulations. The vaping industry could cease to exist by August 2018 if regulations do not change.
In late December, mere weeks after 9News anchor Adele Arakawa announced that she would be leaving the station in June 2017 while blasting a blog post that had predicted her exit, the outlet’s longtime sportscaster, Drew Soicher, disappeared from its airwaves. Since then, a permanent replacement for Soicher hasn’t been announced, and there’s no plan to name one in the future.
