It’s been nearly a week since Frontier Airlines’ meltdown following a Denver snowstorm, and remarkably, ripple effects from the rash of delays and cancellations (and resulting passenger frustration) continue to be felt across the country. Examples? Yesterday morning, the Arizona Republic reported that Frontier had cancelled flights to and from Phoenix’s Sky…
A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that Colorado is the seventh fastest-growing state in the country, having added 91,726 new residents (or almost 10,000 per month) between July 1, 2015 and July 1, 2016 to bring the overall population to 5,540,545. And as evidenced by traffic on I-25…
Plenty of drinking takes place at Mile High Stadium, particularly during Denver Broncos games like the team’s painful loss to the New England Patriots this past weekend — and fans Denver police officers feel have over-indulged frequently find themselves in detox under the auspices of Denver CARES, a behavioral health…
Kevin Pitts, a 48-year-old Longmont resident who worked in marketing for Oracle, is the first person to die at a Colorado ski area during the 2016-2017 season, which got started late but has turned deadly earlier than the previous one. Pitts died after a crash on a black run at…
The City of Denver has agreed to pay $65,000 to settle a complaint filed by Luke Askin, an inmate who was punched by Denver Deputy Thomas Ford at Denver’s Downtown Detention Center in 2014 in an incident captured on video.
At 10 a.m. today on the west steps of the Colorado State Capitol, Jason Salzman, the former Rocky Mountain News media critic who currently runs the website BigMedia.org, is calling on lawmakers in the state to sign a “Fake News Pledge,” described as “a promise not to knowingly spread fake news…
At this writing, the chaos over delayed and cancelled Frontier Airlines flights at Denver International Airport has finally calmed down, after yet another day filled with long lines and misdirected baggage. But passenger anger continues to linger over the way the carrier reacted to a snowstorm that hit Denver this…
For our recent post highlighting the spectacular $18.5 million Telluride property owned by novelist/actress Roxanne Pulitzer and her husband, Tim Boberg, which remains on the market after five years but is being rented this winter for the first time, we spoke to Sotheby’s listing agent Matthew Hintermeister about the challenges…
Former Denver quarterback Brock Osweiler was benched in the second quarter of the Houston Texans’ win over the Jacksonville Jaguars yesterday, offering Broncos fans a ray of sunshine on an otherwise dark day. Shortly after Texans backup Tom Savage led his squad to a comeback victory over the Jags, the…
Once upon a time, DIA was portrayed as an “all-weather airport.” But back in 2009, a Denver International Airport spokesman conceded that there’s no such thing an an all-weather airport. And this truism was underscored over the weekend, when more than 100 flights were canceled and many more were delayed…
For years now, we’ve previewed games between your Denver Broncos and the New England Patriots in the traditional manner — with memes created by people who truly loathe Tom Brady, the Pats’ ultra-talented but exceedingly irritating quarterback. And since the Broncos and the Pats are scheduled to face off on…
Update: Last year, a series of bank robberies perpetrated by men wearing masks familiar from the movie Scream culminated in a massive manhunt for three suspects, one of whom wound up on the FBI’s ten most wanted list. All three of the suspects — Miguel Sanders, Tyrone Richardson and Myloh Mason —…
This morning, the board of directors for Colorado’s Economic Development Commission approved a rebate of $300,000 for Freak Power, a movie about writer Hunter S. Thompson’s gonzo 1970 run for sheriff of Pitkin County to be written and directed by Bobby Kennedy III, grandson of the late Senator Robert F…
Update: In October, we previewed a lawsuit to be filed against the State of Colorado over reports of shocking abuse at the Pueblo Regional Center — claims that included strip searches and genital manipulation of mentally disabled residents. See our previous coverage below. Now, the suit has been filed (it’s also…
Chauncey Billups, a Denver native, is the greatest basketball player ever from Colorado — a star for the CU Buffs and the Denver Nuggets, one of several NBA teams for which he played in a long and distinguished career (including the Detroit Pistons, with whom he won a 2004 championship…
Update: In October, Tyrone Adair Jr., best known to members of the local hip-hop community as BossMan Goodie, was shot to death outside Cold Crush, a venue that was temporarily closed as a public nuisance after the incident; see our previous coverage below. Now, the Denver District Attorney’s Office has announced…
Early next year, Mitch Morrissey will end his term as Denver district attorney — an office he assumed in January 2005. Morrissey’s twelve years in office are among the most eventful of any DA in Denver’s history. Over that span, he earned national attention for his office’s use of DNA…
Denver Broncos lovers like to think of themselves as the best and biggest fans anywhere — but the folks at Fansided don’t agree. A Time Inc. website, Fansided has published the Fandom 250, an unusual project that essentially rates apples against oranges. Rather than using specific categories (fans’ favorite sports…
Our recent post about the Colorado cities that spend the most and the least on the holidays drew from information compiled by WalletHub — and seasonal budget information only scrapes the surface of its data. When we contacted the folks at the site, they provided us with lots of unpublished facts…
Despite providing a home for Mile High Stadium, among Colorado’s most iconic venues, Sun Valley is Denver’s lowest-income neighborhood according to data shared by the office of the city’s mayor, Michael Hancock. But the area has been targeted for economic transformation. Hancock has announced that Sun Valley will receive one…
Comedian and Denver favorite T.J. Miller, who was born and raised in the Mile High, has had a busy past few days. Early Friday morning, according to TMZ, Miller, who is currently co-starring with Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston and plenty of other notables in Office Christmas Party, was arrested in…
As our Chris Walker reported, videos of Denver police officers taking the blankets and tents of homeless people went viral, prompting a letter from the ACLU demanding that such practices end immediately — and over the weekend, Denver mayor Michael Hancock ordered the cops to cease the actions. But it…
