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“For city-slickers eager to get their cowboy on, the aroma might have been a little overwhelming. But for those who live in the world of rodeo and agriculture, it’s the smell of a way of life.”

Tomorrow morning, the second of three community meetings concerning the new Denver Police Department use-of-force policy draft will take place in west Denver. But even before attendees get a chance to weigh in about the document, which critics have excoriated in part because it was assembled without input from community members or Denver’s Office of the Independent Monitor, the Denver Justice Project has released a list of six changes or additions that organization would like to see.

The Colorado the Beautiful initiative, launched under the auspices of the state’s Department of Natural Resources, has what project manager Chris Kehmeier calls “an overarching goal: to have every citizen of Colorado live within ten minutes of a trail, park, greenway or open space that they can get out and recreate in.” And the first sixteen trails planned for construction under the program will go a long way toward turning this vision into reality.

An administrative law judge has ruled that Texas teacher Maryam Roland can’t be suspended after testing positive for marijuana she says she smoked legally while on vacation in Colorado.

We take a closer look at five additional Denver zip codes, including ones that correspond to Cherry Creek, Baker and Green Valley Ranch. On top of that, we compare and contrast Capitol Hill and Five Points, which are just two digits away from each other zip-wise, but with plenty of other differences.

Michael Sura, the defendant in a lawsuit over a ski accidet at Snowmass, is 72-years-old. Yet the complaint filed on behalf of Stuart Pendleton, a resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, contends that Sura was racing another skier at the time of the crash at what the complaint, on view below, describes as a “fast and uncontrolled speed.”

Citizens interested in the state’s $1.8 billion plan to expand I-70 through a ten-mile stretch of north Denver and Aurora had a perplexing choice to make last night. They could attend a “community town hall event,” organized by opponents of the project and co-hosted by Denver city councilman Rafael Espinoza and former city auditor Dennis Gallagher. Or they could join a Facebook Live session with Colorado Department of Transportation executive director Shailen Bhatt, which was peppered with questions and concerns about the highway expansion, wedged between other queries about mountain traffic and HOV lanes.