The Home Front: Motorist in Colorado ticketed for spewing an ‘obnoxious cloud...
“A driver was cited by Steamboat Springs police Sunday after interrupting a peaceful demonstration with an obnoxious cloud of dark exhaust,” reports The Steamboat Pilot. “The local ‘March For Our...
View ArticleThe Home Front: A ‘very, very bad misunderstanding’ when a house was mistaken...
“A Longmont woman said she had her house ransacked by people who mistakenly thought it was the site of an estate sale that was actually happening a few houses away,” reports The Boulder Daily Camera....
View ArticleThe Home Front: Three students at Greeley high schools killed themselves in a...
“On Tuesday, after three students at three Greeley high schools died by suicide within a week, students filed into the office at Greeley Central searching for something to ease the pain,” reports The...
View ArticleThe Home Front: ‘Rabid skunk’ isn’t the name of a pot product or punk band,...
“An ‘unprecedented’ spike in rabid skunks is gripping El Paso County and the state – even in traditionally uncommon areas like Colorado Springs’ Old North End, Palmer Park and Widefield,” reports The...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Colorado’s Lesley Mumford will be the first transgender woman...
“In January, the Summit County Sheriff’s Office operations commander and SWAT team coordinator, Lesley Mumford, was called into Sheriff Jaime FitzSimons’ office for a sit-down,” reports Summit Daily....
View ArticleThe Home Front: After ‘fights’ with the major telecom companies, Colorado’s...
“It’s finally done, or at least it will be by this afternoon,” reports The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. “That’s when Gov. John Hickenlooper is to sign a bill to give rural Colorado a pool of money to...
View ArticleMeet the journalist who’s ‘like a dog with a bone’ on The Denver Post’s...
In the midst of a savage season of unrelenting newsroom layoffs around the country, including in Denver, one investigative journalist has found an unconventional outlet for focused reporting on the...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Jennifer Carroll’s election as mayor of Erie signal’s town’s...
“Final returns on Tuesday for Erie’s municipal election, billed in recent months as a referendum on the town’s renewed post-Firestone approach to oil and gas regulation, confirmed a wide-margin victory...
View ArticleThe Home Front: 2017 drug deaths in Colorado ‘almost certainly were the worst...
“Colorado drug deaths almost certainly were the worst in the state’s history last year, as the opioid epidemic morphed into a broader overdose crisis. Deaths from methamphetamine exploded,” reports The...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Colorado’s shrinking snowpack means ‘There’s going to be...
“Colorado’s shrinking mountain snowpack — at 66 percent of normal statewide Thursday — forced an expanded federal drought designation covering nearly a quarter of the state with stream flows forecast...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Access to ‘long-acting contraceptives’ credited with decline...
“Widespread access to long-acting contraceptives is credited with declining teen birth rates in La Plata County and across Colorado,” reports The Durango Herald. “It’s been almost a 10-year effort that...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Colorado Springs ‘topped Denver’ in magazine’s ‘Best Places...
“Colorado Springs topped Denver to take the second-place ranking, behind Austin, Texas, in this year’s list of ‘Best Places to Live’ by U.S. News & World Report magazine,” reports The Gazette in...
View ArticleThe Home Front: TABOR lawsuit could ‘delay a critical piece of funding for...
“A years-old lawsuit could delay a critical piece of funding for the widening of Interstate 25 between Monument and Castle Rock, possibly pushing back the start of construction,” reports The Gazette in...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Woman found in a Vail dumpster has been ‘arrested for false...
“A woman found in a dumpster was arrested for false reporting Thursday, April 12,” reports Vail Daily. “Linnea Marlene Hayda, 31, of Vail, was arrested in connection to a March incident in which she...
View ArticleThe Home Front: High winds and a wildfire earns El Paso County a ‘disaster...
“El Paso County signed a disaster declaration Tuesday night and is urging the state to take command of a wind-fueled blaze that started along Interstate 25 in the southern part of the county, burned at...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Air Force to pay $900k for clean water and to ‘remove...
“Nearly two years after toxic chemicals from Air Force firefighting foam were found in water drawn from the Widefield aquifer, the military announced a string of measures Wednesday to deliver clean...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Colorado man, hemp grower, talks at neighborhood meeting...
“The farmer who plans to grow hemp in west Loveland this summer spent two hours Thursday night talking to people at a neighborhood meeting about the unusual crop,” reports The Loveland Reporter-Herald....
View ArticleThe Home Front: Some Colorado lawmakers want to keep juvenile autopsy reports...
“A piece of legislation being considered by state lawmakers aims to keep juvenile autopsy reports from being made available to the public, including the media,” reports The Steamboat Pilot. “The...
View ArticleThe Home Front: To ‘avoid conflict,’ police in Boulder, Colorado let...
“It’s illegal in Boulder to openly carry a firearm unless it’s held in a ‘carrying case’ — a holster for a handgun, for example, or something larger and easily recognizable in the case of a larger...
View ArticleThe Home Front: The Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs is ‘cracking down...
“The Air Force Academy is cracking down on hazing across the campus in the wake of incidents involving the school’s swimming and lacrosse teams,” reports The Gazette in Colorado Springs. “Academy boss...
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