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Boulder man who lost home in Marshall Fire now dealing with parents’ loss of home in LA wildfires
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Boulder man who lost home in Marshall Fire now dealing with parents’ loss of home in LA wildfires

By Nate Belt | KDVR-TV Fox 31 News A Boulder man is stunned to be living through two of the same tragedies twice: His parents lost their home to wildfires in Los Angeles not long after the third anniversary of losing his own home in the Marshall Fire. Christian Maljian was visiting his family in California back in December 2021 when his roommate in Superior texted him smoke was getting close to their home. “Hoping it didn’t burn, like, for hours and hours and found out, you know, the next day when I’d actually flown back to Colorado that it got lost,” said Maljian. READ THE FULL STORY AT KDVR-TV FOX 31 NEWS
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Fences on target to come down this year on Denver’s 16th Street Mall
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Fences on target to come down this year on Denver’s 16th Street Mall

By Maddie Rhodes | KDVR-TV Fox 31 News The 16th Street Mall has been under construction for three years, leaving the heart of downtown Denver covered in fences. While the project still has a ways to go, it’s expected to wrap up in 2025. The 16th Street Mall started construction in 2022 in hopes of improving safety and mobility. Over the past three years, the city has been working on demolishing the street and touching up storm and sewage work before rebuilding the area. By the time the fences come down, the street is rebuilt with a transit way, trees, new curbs at shuttle stops and more. Denver opened up the first part of the mall in the summer of 2024, with four blocks between Market and Curtis Street finished. READ THE FULL STORY AT KDVR-TV FOX 31 NEWS
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Inside DIA’s lost and found: Bags, electronics and even a bag of dried fish
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Inside DIA’s lost and found: Bags, electronics and even a bag of dried fish

By Maddie Rhodes | Fox 31 News  The lost and found at the Denver International Airport became home to thousands of misplaced items in 2024, holding anything from lost luggage to unusual items like a bag with dried fish. According to the lost and found team at DIA, the airport collects around 200 lost items each day, and only 30-40% of the items make it back to their owners. But what those misplaced items are is a mixed bag. The most common lost items at the airport are bags, electronics and wallets. The airport also collected 2,646 earbuds that were turned into lost and found throughout 2024. However, the airport ended up seeing much more than luggage at its lost and found. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31 NEWS
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National Western opens today with kickoff parade in Denver, followed by two weeks of fun
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National Western opens today with kickoff parade in Denver, followed by two weeks of fun

By Maddie Rhodes | Fox 31 News The National Western Stock Show is returning to Denver and bringing cowboys, rodeos, livestock and just about anything Western for more than two weeks in January. The stock show is a 119-year-old tradition that hosts rodeos, youth shows, fiddling, educational activities, livestock shows, food festivals, veterinarian classes, live bands and more for 16 days. Put in place by farmers and ranchers in 1906, the stock show is still bringing in hundreds of thousands of people, and soon it will be back for another year. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31 NEWS
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife to discuss citizen petition to stop wolf reintroduction
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife to discuss citizen petition to stop wolf reintroduction

By Carly Moore | Fox 31 News On Wednesday and Thursday, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission will hold meetings about potentially pausing or changing the wolf reintroduction program.  The program has been met with pushback, especially from livestock owners in the counties impacted.  CPW’s plan is to release 15 more wolves from Canada in January. The counties being considered are Garfield, Eagle and Pitkin. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31 NEWS
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ACLU claims Aurora police may have ‘exceeded their authority’ in working with ICE
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ACLU claims Aurora police may have ‘exceeded their authority’ in working with ICE

By Heather Willard | Fox 31 News The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado is speaking out about the ongoing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement action in Aurora that led to 16 people detained in December. ICE was involved with the investigation of an armed apartment invasion on Dec. 16 and 17 at The Edge at Lowry apartment complex in Aurora where 19 people were initially detained, but ultimately 16 were arrested. Aurora police said the incident began when two Venezuelan individuals were accosted by a large group of armed individuals and forced into an apartment unit. There, the group allegedly tied them up, beat them, pistol-whipped them and stabbed the male victim. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31 NEWS
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Aurora’s mayor questions why Tren de Aragua impacts have been felt less in Denver
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Aurora’s mayor questions why Tren de Aragua impacts have been felt less in Denver

By Heather Willard | Fox 31 News At the same time that the ACLU of Colorado is investigating the Aurora Police Department’s cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Aurora’s mayor is asking Denver’s mayor for clarity on how and why the migrant population spread to Aurora. Specifically, Mayor Mike Coffman wants to know why the ongoing Tren de Aragua gang activity has been largely tied to Aurora when busloads of migrants were sent to Denver from Texas last year. Denver reported over 42,000 migrants, mainly from Central and South America, were sheltered by the city between Jan. 2023 and July 2024. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31 NEWS
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Colfax grocery store owner fed up with frequent shoplifters in the area
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Colfax grocery store owner fed up with frequent shoplifters in the area

By Nate Belt | Fox 31 News A grocery store owner on Colfax is fed up with recurring thefts from his shop, including a repeat offender he’s looking to identify through images from his security camera. Pete Marczyk opened the first Marczyk Fine Foods in 2002, now with two locations here in Denver. At his location on East Colfax, Marczyk said shoplifting is on the rise and his store isn’t the only one on the block that’s been hit. “It’s kind of like mice in a house,” said Marczyk. “If you see one, you know you have more.” READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31 NEWS
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Former, acting U.S. attorneys for Colorado will lead Denver District Attorney’s Office
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Former, acting U.S. attorneys for Colorado will lead Denver District Attorney’s Office

By Heather Willard | Fox 31 News The Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado has announced plans for a new job just months after he assumed leadership of the federal office. Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado Matthew Kirsch is resigning from the federal office effective Jan. 25. Kirsch has been tapped by former U.S. Attorney John Walsh, who was elected to be Denver’s next District Attorney, to be the First Assistant District Attorney in Denver. Kirsch took over as Colorado’s chief federal law enforcement officer in June after then-U.S. Attorney Cole Finegan submitted his resignation in May. According to his biography on the U.S. Department of Justice website, Kirsch became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in 1999 and had held the title of Acting U.S. A...
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Wolf killed in Grand County was shot; federal officials seeking information
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Wolf killed in Grand County was shot; federal officials seeking information

By Jacob Factor | Fox 31 News Federal officials are seeking information in the illegal deadly shooting of one of the reintroduced gray wolves that died in Grand County in 2024. The wolf, one of three that died in 2024, was the adult male wolf of the Copper Creek pack Colorado Parks and Wildlife captured in 2024 that repeatedly attacked livestock, prompting the whole pack’s capture. The male wolf died less than a week after his capture, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said at the time. Parks and Wildlife staff found the wolf already in poor condition, with several injuries to his right hind leg and a body weight nearly 30 percent lower than when he was released. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31 NEWS
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