Issues reflect entire city in race for south Denver District 7 City Council seat

The South Platte River splits south Denver's City Council District 7 nearly down the middle, but its halves are hardly mirror images.

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Baker's refusal of service not discrimination, court rules

DENVER – A Castle Rock religious leader said he plans to appeal after the Colorado Civil Rig ...

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Metro State's Breanna Hemming prefers to be powered by ambition

At her family's dinner table one night when she was 8 or 9 years old, Breanna Hemming announced she was going to the Olympics someday. She just hadn't decided which sport to pick.

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Local Briefs

Colo. author to make his local rounds Craig Childs, a western Colorado author who writes about people, animals and the outdoors, will make a couple of appearances Saturday in Durango:Childs will present the keynote address at the annual La Plata Democrats Jefferson Jackson Dinner and Auction at 5:30 p.m. at the Henry...

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Colo. River not helping Calif. drought worries

DENVER – Drought-weary Californians can’t expect much encouragement from mountains elsewhere in the West: Snow that fills the Colorado River is lagging, too, officials said Friday.The snowpack in the Colorado and Wyoming valleys where the river originates now ranges from 51 to 79 percent of normal, said Brian Domonkos,...

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Climate change threatens goats

DENVER – The American mountain goat has been called the greatest mountaineer the peaks ever have known, but now that high altitudes are warming – at a rate two to three times faster than the rest of the planet – the animals’ future is less than certain.Bruce Smith, a wildlife biologist and author, spent three...

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Begging the question

The city of Grand Junction has paid more than $100,000 in legal fees for a panhandling ordinance that has never been enforced.

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