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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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Teen pleads guilty to second degree murder in shooting at Longmont car rally
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Teen pleads guilty to second degree murder in shooting at Longmont car rally

By Christa Swanson | CBS Colorado A teen charged in a fatal shooting at a car rally in Longmont pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Friday. Christian Mendoza, 17, was charged as an adult after he fatally shot 16-year-old Robert Maldonado in the Longmont Hobby Lobby parking lot in March 2024. Officials said an altercation at the car rally between Mendoza and Maldonado turned physical. When Maldonado turned to head back towards the vehicle he arrived in, Mendoza shot him in the back right side. Maldonado fled the rally in his vehicle and crashed nearby. He later died from his injuries at the hospital. READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS COLORADO
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Lakewood sued by developer, as expected, over controversial new open space law
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Lakewood sued by developer, as expected, over controversial new open space law

By Catie Cheshire | Westword As members of Lakewood City Council predicted when they passed a controversial new open-space law last November, the City of Lakewood has been named in a suit claiming that the law is illegal and being applied unfairly to a planned development next to Belmar Park. In September, Lakewood residents successfully petitioned to eliminate the city’s option to allow developers to pay a fee to build parks instead of dedicating parkland for each development; the council had no choice but to either send the issue to a special election or turn the petition into law. As a result, every project must now dedicate 10.5 acres of parkland for every 1,000 people expected to live at a new Lakewood development. Kairoi Properties filed the lawsuit ...
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Colorado Springs firefighters have been assigned to Zuma Beach in Malibu
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Colorado Springs firefighters have been assigned to Zuma Beach in Malibu

By Dara Korn | KXRM-TV Fox 21 News The Colorado Springs Fire Department (CSFD) reported that crews deployed to assist with the fires in California have arrived and received their assignments on Sunday morning, Jan. 12. According to CSFD, crews have been assigned to Zuma Beach in Malibu for an initial attack on the fires. READ THE FULL STORY AT KXRM-TV FOX 21 NEWS
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Lawsuit filed against town of Palmer Lake, officials over Buc-ee’s plan
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Lawsuit filed against town of Palmer Lake, officials over Buc-ee’s plan

By BRETT FORREST | The Gazette, via KOAA Several nonprofit organizations are suing the town of Palmer Lake, its mayor and other city officials over a controversial plan to annex land to open a Buc-ee's convenience store. The lawsuit, filed Friday, alleges a multitude of complaints including improper land annexation agreements, restriction of free speech and violation of open meeting laws for matters surrounding the development of the popular Texas-based chain, which opened its first Colorado location near Johnstown in 2024. Nonprofit Integrity Matters filed the suit along with Westside Watch, TriLakes Preservation, Inc, United Congregational Church, and other individuals and business owners in the Palmer Lake area. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE GAZETTE
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Passenger rail advocates push state to connect southern, western Colorado
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Passenger rail advocates push state to connect southern, western Colorado

By David O. Williams | Denver Gazette Passengers or petroleum products? That’s one of the key questions being bandied about in a renewed effort to revive part of the long-dormant Tennessee Pass rail line linking southern Colorado to the state’s Western Slope. As the Polis administration continues to focus almost exclusively on planning for passenger rail in the northern Front Range and through the northern mountains between Denver and Craig, some rail advocates, experts and elected officials are urging the state to study the out-of-service Union Pacific rail line between Pueblo and western Eagle County that last saw freight trains in 1997. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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DA George Brauchler launches new 23rd Judicial District with tough-on-crime approach
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DA George Brauchler launches new 23rd Judicial District with tough-on-crime approach

By Olivia Young | CBS News For the first time in over 60 years, Colorado is getting a new Judicial District. The change will happen on Tuesday. For decades, the 18th Judicial District has encompassed Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln counties. As those communities grew, the district became the largest in the state. A political divide also emerged between left-leaning Arapahoe County and the other conservative communities. In 2020, a bipartisan effort in the state legislature split the district, leaving only Arapahoe County in the 18th Judicial District and creating a new district for the remaining counties, the state's 23rd. READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS COLORADO
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Denver home prices are falling, but does that mean buying a house is affordable?
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Denver home prices are falling, but does that mean buying a house is affordable?

By Catie Cheshire | Westword Denver had the seventh-highest drop in home prices in 2024, according to Realtor.com. But that doesn’t necessarily mean buying a home in Denver is affordable. Though the median list price of a home in Denver was down 5.35 percent in December 2024 compared to December 2023, the median list price is still $577,350. Still, real estate experts are taking the news of the drop as another sign that markets are leveling out from pandemic-induced, skyrocketing prices. “Austin, Denver, Phoenix and Nashville were the darling markets of 2021 and 2022 and places where prices went wild,” says Joel Berner, Realtor.com senior economist. “Now, with more homes on the market, prices are returning to where they belong.” READ THE FULL STORY AT WESTWORD...
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Bill McCartney, winningest Buffs football coach of all time, dead at 84
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Bill McCartney, winningest Buffs football coach of all time, dead at 84

By David Plati | CUBuffs.com Bill McCartney, one of the most visible and successful head coaches in all sports in the University of Colorado's 135-year athletic history, passed away peacefully here after a long illness shortly after 9 p.m. Friday evening with family members by his side.  He was 84. When "Mac" first set foot on the CU campus in Boulder in June 1982, little did he – or anyone – know at the time that just over a dozen years later he would retire as the winningest coach in CU football history. He orchestrated a turnaround with a program that had won just 14 games over the previous six seasons to one that claimed three Big Eight Conference titles and the 1990 consensus national championship. He is one of 11 with CU ties in the College Football Hall of Fame, as he was indu...
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