From January 1, 2010 to the end of February 2017, nearly half of 312 homicides that took place in Denver didn’t result in an arrest. Moreover, the victims in cases either closed without anyone being taken into custody or still unsolved were overwhelmingly black or Hispanic.
One of KOSI and 9News star Denise Plante’s undeniable skills is to make the listener or viewer feel as if they know her. But in the following in-depth Q&A, she goes into details about her life and career that may come as a surprise to even some of her biggest fans.
New figures for June 2018 show the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment within Denver’s city limits is just a shade under $2,000 per month, and that figure has been surpassed in a popular suburb for the first time this year.
Tonight will mark the official launch of Caring 4 Denver, a proposed ballot measure that aims to raise $45 million per annum a quarter at a time in order to increase the amount of mental health and substance abuse services in the city.
In recent weeks, Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division has issued two industry-wide bulletins prompted by “reports of licensees making recommendations for pregnancy-related morning sickness.” And while pioneering marijuana attorney Brian Vicente is urging his clients to pay heed to the MED’s new focus on conversations between dispensary staffers and customers, he sees a broader problem.
An expert on water throughout Colorado feels the conditions that have helped fuel the 416 Fire near Durango and other blazes in the state at present could be with us for the foreseeable future.
It’s not often that a TV-news anchor essentially agrees with those calling a leading gubernatorial candidate a liar. But that’s exactly what 9News’ Kyle Clark did in regard to Colorado Treasurer and Republican frontrunner Walker Stapleton in a commentary segment on the June 11 edition of Next with Kyle Clark. He explains why in the following Q&A.
Today, FBI agent Chase Bishop, who became a national laughingstock after he accidentally shot Thomas Reddington while executing a back flip at Mile High Spirits Distillery during the wee hours of June 2, turned himself in to the Denver Sheriff’s Department. He was promptly arrested and is currently being held on suspicion of second-degree assault.
Metropolitan State University of Denver students have a new mission: preventing the Earth from being destroyed by asteroids.
Our updated list of the ten intersections with the most accidents in Denver right now testifies to the changing traffic patterns in Denver. Only two spots on the roster are repeats from our previous most-dangerous-intersections report, published in November.
Alex Landau, co-founder of the Denver Justice Project and survivor of a shocking 2009 beating byDenver police officers, has strong ideas about where outgoing police chief Robert White went right and wrong during his nearly seven years in the post and what he’d like to see from his successor.
This week, Elisabeth Epps, co-lead of the Denver Justice Project, is raising funds for what she’s dubbed the Juneteenth/Father’s Day Bail Out, an initiative that aims to pay bonds for low-level male offenders who can’t afford to do so in time for them to spend the upcoming holidays with their families or loved ones.
Given the move away from brick-and-mortar retail outlets, particularly enormous ones, and the growing popularity of online shopping, will vacant box stores in metro Denver ever be filled?
A new lawsuit claims that two Commerce City Police officers rousted Joshua Condiotti-Wade for legally protesting while carrying signs that read “Fuck Bad Cops” and “Blue Lives Murder.” The problem was compounded, the suit maintains, when one of the law enforcers chased and tased Condiotti-Wade out of apparent frustration that he’d tripped and fallen down without help from anyone.
If whimsical racist and Peter Dinklage stunt double Jeff Sessions is surprised that he’s still the U.S. Attorney General given the number of times his boss, President Donald Trump, has said he wishes he’d never given him the job, he didn’t let on during a peppery address at the Western Conservative Summit this afternoon.
A short time ago, President Donald Trump said he would “probably” support the Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States Act, a bill introduced yesterday by the political odd couple of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Colorado Senator Cory Gardner that gives states the right to determine their own marijuana policies without federal interference.
Frontier’s pilots are the most underpaid in the industry by a wide margin. After years of fruitless negotiations, they’re ready to strike right now, on the cusp of the busy summer travel season.
Sources who’ve spoken to Westword think odds are good Channel 2’s local news operation will be eliminated, possibly as soon as year’s end, in favor of right-wing news programming produced nationally by conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group.
An expert from Colorado, where sponsoring highways is among the only promotional platforms open to marijuana dispensaries, worries that some limits put in place via the National Advertising Standard offered by the National Association of Cannabis Businesses are overly severe.
At a press conference that concluded moments ago, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Colorado Senator Cory Gardner, a political odd couple if ever there was one, explained why they’ve teamed up to introduce a marijuana-related bill called the Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States Act.
The Colorado River has already reached its peak flow for the season, and that’s lousy news when it comes to fire danger, water supply for farmers and residential users, recreational opportunities and the health of numerous fish species, among other things. And while Victor Lee, an engineer with the Bureau of Reclamation, isn’t ready to hit the panic button yet, he concedes that bad can still turn worse.
House flipping, as its known, is commonplace in today’s red hot Denver housing market, as shown in new numbers that reveal the metro-area zip codes where it’s happening most frequently and the often huge windfalls that can result.
