Author: Kyla Pearce The Denver Gazette
-
‘Normal’ wildfire outlook has new meaning as fire season grows
Colorado’s fire risk for the upcoming season is average, Gov. Jared Polis said at a late April news conference. But average means there will be many wildfires in the state and they will likely be large, fire officials emphasized. “Today, it’s more a question of when, not if, a fire will affect our community,” Polis…
-
‘Normal’ wildfire outlook has new meaning as fire season grows
Colorado’s fire risk for the upcoming season is average, Gov. Jared Polis said at a news conference Thursday. But average means there will be many wildfires in the state and they will likely be large, fire officials emphasized. “Today, it’s more a question of when, not if, a fire will affect our community,” Polis said.…
-
Fatal shooting stemmed from possible domestic violence, police say
Aurora police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 41-year-old man that may have stemmed from a domestic violence incident, according to a department notification Friday afternoon. Police responded to the shooting, in the 10700 block of East Exposition Avenue, in the Expo Park neighborhood just north of Mississippi Avenue, around 9:15 a.m. Friday, according…
-
Colorado student and ‘word detective’ to represent state in Scripps National Spelling Bee
Sandhya Ayyar’s palms sweat as she watched her 12-year-old son, Vedanth Raju, hear his next-to-last word during the Colorado State Spelling Bee in early March and cover his mouth. “Oh no, he doesn’t know it,” she thought, fighting the building nerves and thinking back on the hours-upon-hours of work Raju had done to prepare for…
-
Amy Padden swearing in
Amy Padden speaks after being sworn in as the new 18th Judicial District Attorney on Jan. 9.
-
National bird: Best spots to view bald eagles around Colorado Springs
Here’ the best places for eagle watching around metro Denver.
-
Bald eagle becomes official national bird as best viewing season approaches
Here’ the best places for eagle watching around metro Denver.
-
Lift tickets at 3 Colorado ski resorts break $300-level for last weekend in 2024
Tickets at Vail, Beaver Creek and Steamboat Ski Resort are $329 for single-day passes.
-
Winter Park gondola reopens to public after mishap
A CU Boulder student and his dad were two of the more than 170 skiers and boarders who were trapped for hours.
-
Police: Suspects in Aurora kidnapping, torture are Venezuelan TdA gang members looking for cellphone video
The home invasion, kidnapping and torture at a troubled apartment complex in Aurora — perpetuated, the local police chief said, by a Venezuelan gang at the center of a national firestorm over illegal immigration — began with a cellphone video showing two women fighting. That video, the police later said, included “a number of other…