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The University of Denver is aiming to become a global hub for scholarship on the Holocaust, abuses of power, racism, hatred and antisemitism, with a goal of spurring…
Read more University of Denver creates professorship in Holocaust and antisemitism studiesTraffic deaths in Colorado increased in 2025, reversing a decline in recent years, with about one in three deaths related to impaired driving, according to state data released…
Read more Colorado traffic deaths increased in 2025, reversing declineUpdated 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17: Hundreds of demonstrators marching through downtown Denver on Saturday afternoon caused rolling road closures, police officials said. Streets around the state Capitol…
Read more Road closures lifted through downtown Denver as protest winds downDENVER – A pedestrian died following a crash on Interstate 25 near Yale Avenue early Saturday morning, according to the Denver Police Department. The Denver Police Department first…
Read more Pedestrian killed in I-25 crash near Yale Ave.LITTLETON – For deer, the fall time change Sunday morning means trouble: a 16% spike in collisions with vehicles over the following week, despite years of safety campaigns…
Read more Vehicle collisions with wildlife spike 16% in Colorado after fall time changeENGLEWOOD — Metro Denver budtender Quentin Ferguson needs Regional Transportation District bus and trains to reach work at an Arvada dispensary from his house, a trip that takes…
Read more RTD ridership still falling as state pushes transit-oriented development: ‘We’re not moving the needle’Police have arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly assaulting a middle-aged man who interjected himself into Denver’s downtown No Kings demonstration, shouted expletives and a slur, then fell…
Read more Denver man arrested in assault of pro-Trump ‘No Kings’ counter-demonstratorThe Denver Board of Ethics has cleared Denver International Airport CEO Phil Washington of using his position for private gain when he flew himself and eight other executives…
Read more Ethics board clears Denver airport CEO over flights costing as much as $19,000, but is ‘appalled’ by responseRTD directors faced a barrage of public opposition and were locked in debate Tuesday night over how to restructure the agency’s Access-on-Demand service, which provides free rides to…
Read more RTD directors face barrage of opposition, set fare for Access-on-DemandFederal immigration arrests in Colorado surged this summer as the Trump administration charged ahead with its plans to mass-deport undocumented immigrants. But as arrests have spiked, law enforcement…
Read more ICE arrests climb in Colorado this summer, but people detained are less likely to have criminal backgroundsUpdated at 4:43 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024 Homelessness increased by 10 percent in the metro Denver area this year, according to Metro Denver Homeless Initiative’s annual…
Read more Homelessness is up in Denver, but fewer people are sleeping outdoorsAs Colorado’s universal preschool program moves into its second school year this month, officials are hoping to leave its rocky rollout in the rearview mirror. By the end of…
Read more After universal preschool’s rocky start in Colorado, “things are much better” in year two — though challenges remainColorado is set to see the warmest weather of the year so far Friday as temperatures creep into the mid and upper 80s, according to the National Weather…
Read more Colorado weather: Hottest temps of the year Friday mean it’s beginning to feel a lot like summerToo few parking spaces, lengthy queues for open spots, cramped designs that can’t handle crowds — Denver-area drivers brace themselves for headaches when they try to navigate the…
Read more Where are Denver’s worst parking lots? Here are the city’s biggest offenders — and a few in the suburbs, too.People gathered in Civic Center Park in downtown Denver to celebrate the Cinco de Mayo Festival at Civic Center Park in Denver on May 28, 2024. The annual…
Read more PHOTOS: 2024 Cinco de Mayo festival and parade in downtown DenverFormer Edgewater police officer McKinzie Rees hopes to serve and protect again, but first she must get her name removed from a so-called “bad cops list” maintained by…
Read more Colorado lawmakers’ latest police oversight bill would protect whistleblowers from retaliationA new nonstop Turkish Airlines flight from Denver International Airport will carry travelers 6,152 miles between Denver and Istanbul — the longest flight from DIA. The recruitment of…
Read more Denver International Airport adds new nonstop destination — the longest direct flight from DIADenver police are investigating after a man was shot and killed in the city’s East Colfax neighborhood Wednesday night. Denver officers were on the scene of the shooting…
Read more One dead in overnight Denver shooting on Colfax Avenue, police investigatingOn Saturday morning, March 16, 2024, thousands of parade goers flocked to lower downtown Denver to enjoy the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade which had over 120 floats…
Read more PHOTOS: The Denver St. Patrick’s Day Parade marches onHomeowners associations’ foreclosure filings on thousands of Coloradans’ houses over unpaid fines and fees have spurred fresh attempts by lawmakers to better regulate HOAs and metropolitan districts with…
Read more Colorado lawmakers target HOAs with more restrictions to protect homeowners from foreclosure
