- After closing the books on its first year of legalized sports betting, Colorado collected more than $6.6 million in tax revenue. The programs set to receive that money will start to do so this fall. Voters passed Proposition DD by a slim margin in 2019.
- The short answer: It’s the peak of spring migration season. The long answer has to do with biological clocks and weather. And please turn off your exterior lights if possible.
- The National Endowment for the Humanities has granted History Colorado $400,000 for its new Sand Creek Massacre exhibit which will open next year. The grant will help pay for museum staff to visit with tribal members on reservations in other states to ensure inclusive history.
- The 11-year veteran of the Boulder Police Department ran into the Boulder King Soopers on March 22 after reports of a shooting inside and was killed by a gunman.
- Veronica Markley contracted COVID-19 while pregnant last spring and spent days on a ventilator.
- Evacuating horses is no easy task. Let alone 200 of them. But when the East Troublesome Fire exploded last October, it’s the monumental task ranchers in Granby faced. And the two and a half hour slog was just the beginning. Henri Halle recounts the experience in a new podcast.
- Colorado’s avalanche danger this month has hovered around the moderate and considerable levels, and experts say that’s when most fatal avalanche accidents happen.
- It used to be free for hikers, bicyclists and horseback riders to enter most state parks. That changed last year, thanks to state law. And as of this month, even more of them are charging a daily entrance fee.
- The East Troublesome Fire is now the second-largest wildfire in recorded Colorado history. And on Thursday, there was a chance it would merge with the Cameron Peak fire, which is burning west of Fort Collins.
- “Today’s mission is going to be on life safety, it’s going to be on evacuations and ensuring that people are out of the way of future fire growth,” said incident commander Noel Livingston.
- The new order adds protections for renters, including those whose leases have expired.
- People still spent more than $218 million on cannabis, the state’s second-highest total ever.
- Andrew Wommack Ministries held a conference in July that led to a COVID-19 outbreak resulting in 63 cases and one death.
- The Glenwood Springs Fire Department responded to reports of a brush fire near mile marker 120 on Monday afternoon.
- The state now has two more community COVID-19 testing sites in Adams County and Aurora in addition to the one at the Pepsi Center in Denver.
