New Mexico author Forrest Fenn considered ending the search for a hidden treasure after the death this month of Grand Junction pastor Paris Wallace, the second Coloradan to perish looking for it over the past eighteen months. But he has now concluded that the hunt should go on in part because of a life he says was saved by the quest.
A reader wants to know why his cottonmouth lasts so long after smoking. Our Stoner breaks down why.
Metropolitan State University has been on a building binge. Metro has recently added a Student Academic Success Center, a Marriott Springhill Suites location with an academic hospitality school, and a massive sports complex for both collegiate teams and student exercise on the Auraria campus. On Thursday, June 22, Metro celebrated the completion and opening of its latest project, the Aerospace and Engineering Sciences Building.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether Denver’s Masterpiece Cakeshop discriminated against a gay couple, Charlie Craig and David Mullins, by refusing to make them a wedding cake just over a year after the case was rejected by the Colorado Supreme Court. Attorneys for Masterpiece owner Jack Phillips argue that a Colorado Civil Rights Commission ruling in favor of Craig and Mullins violated his rights as an artist not to create works that violate his personal beliefs, and they may find a find that Neil Gorsuch, a Coloradan who ruled in favor of religious freedom in an important case prior to being appointed to the Supreme Court, has sympathy for this view.
Part pub crawl, part group therapy, the Denver HowdyCon was not so much a convention as an informal meet-up of Scientology dissidents, united by a history of similar experiences and traumas.
Walliver, Water World’s new mascot, joins a lineup of Colorado mascots good and bad. Here are the five best and the five worst.
Welcome to Denver, the worst place in these United States for people who drive under the speed limit in the fast lane.
The city of Thornton has only allowed one dispensary for each of the city’s four geographical quadrants, setting the stage for open recreational dispensaries as early as late summer. Although Thornton city officials say none of the stores are close to finishing construction, the locations and licensees are set, and they’re all familiar brands to consumers used to buying cannabis in Denver or Aurora.
Molly Berkenhoff, who was rescued after a terrifying fall at Boulder Canyon on June 21, remains hospitalized a week later as a result of injuries to her spine. And according to her sister, Eileen Mervish, “Molly will have a long road of rehab and recovery ahead of her.”
Cannabis event will be busting out all over Colorado in June, with the debut of a new weekly series, a regular Sunday showcase and employee training courses.
The recent arrests and legal actions against a former Marijuana Enforcement Division official and several marijuana industry license-holders here in Colorado has been touted by Attorney General Jeff Sessions as an example of why this industry is not working. In actuality, a regulated system like the one in Colorado has created a boom for us in the areas of job creation, revenue generation and increased law enforcement support.
A dozen years after Westword did its first profile of Broadway, we returned to this “magnificent thoroughfare” and detailed how Denver’s booming economy has affected the road from top to bottom. But there’s no development that captures the public’s imagination — and anger — more than the pilot bicycle-lane project,
During his visit to Denver Health’s methadone clinic, this recovering addict reflects on a disease that is as deadly as cancer, yet often ignored.
There’s no question that cannabis prices are going down in Colorado…but what’s happening to quality? Readers disagree about whether lower costs equate to lower quality.
Colorado is used to seeing marijuana sales tax dollars spike in April thanks to the 4/20 holiday on April 20, but that wasn’t the case this year, according to sales tax data from the Colorado Department of Revenue.
President Trump’s current budget proposal includes sweeping cuts to long-distance train services, gutting the Amtrak budget by $630 million.
The Onion, the satirical publication that calls itself “America’s Finest News Source,” features edgy and humorous takes on everything from pop culture to politics. On June 22, it took on Frontier Airlines.
When price is definitely an object, there are some go-to spots where you can always count on finding at least two or three decent strains available for $25 an eighth — no shake, no popcorn buds, no coupon required.
State officials say there’s no danger that the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo will be shutting down any time soon, despite the recent departure of its director and a finding by federal regulators that patients faced “immediate jeopardy” as a result of a severe staffing shortage.
Only days after the release of a study saying that collision claim frequencies in Colorado are about 3 percent higher overall than would have been expected without marijuana legalization comes a competing report stating that the crash fatality rates haven’t changed significantly. These seemingly contradictory findings leave one marijuana reformer confused but certain that the sky isn’t falling.
Since longtime 9News sports personality Drew Soicher left the station late last year, many news programs on that outlet and other local network affiliates have been de-emphasizing traditional sports coverage despite Denver being one of the country’s most sports-crazy cities. A veteran anchor who left a net for cable says the reason has everything to do with the rise of online sports media at the same time station budgets are getting tighter and tighter.
Jana Koretko, an author and publisher of erotic books, has been arrested on accusations that she systematically ripped off a slew of fellow writers for more than $125,000 in total. The result is an alleged criminal gang-bang that no one enjoyed in the end.
