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Aerial view of four lane highway with traffic and interchange construction area, surrounded by a suburban city landscape.

Nighttime road closures and detours slated for I-25 in Pueblo this weekend

By Shanna Lewis

A woman with long blond hair is seen standing in a kitchen. She is wearing a grey and white sweatshirt with black lettering.

Colorado nonprofit BikerDown supports injured motorcyclists and families as risk to riders increases

By Chandra Thomas Whitfield

Mt. Princeton in the Collegiate Peaks, seen from near Buena Vista

Motorcycle deaths continue to rise in Colorado; State Patrol says ‘distracted driving’ to blame

By Chandra Thomas Whitfield

A woman in a bright yellow vests uses clippers to cut a barbed wire fence.

Barbed wire fences dot the West. There’s a growing movement to take them down — for wildlife

A view of I-25 in Pueblo

On and off ramps connecting southbound I-25 to U.S. Highway 50B near downtown Pueblo are closing

By Shanna Lewis

A woman in glasses and a navy blue hat that reads "Crossing Guard" holds up a big red stop signs as she looks at the camera. She is wearing earrings that are little traffic cones and the yellow reflective vest of her job.

Distracted drivers, defiant parents: Denver’s crossing guards get de-escalation training

By Jenny Brundin

road crew works near a cliff face with orange cones set up

Long delays expected for traffic on a five mile stretch of Highway 50 along the Arkansas River in Fremont County

By Shanna Lewis

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Multiple roads, I-70 closed near Morrison Wednesday morning due to hazardous material leak

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Colorado Wonders

Animal crossing signs line roads all across the state. How do the signs with lights know when to turn on?

Denver Public Schools buses

Drivers! There’s a new rule about what to do near a stopped school bus

By Jenny Brundin

Highway 50 crosses Blue Mesa Reservoir

Mediocre: Colorado receives C- grade for state infrastructure

Deer at Little Book Cliffs northwest of De Beque on Colorado’s Western Slope

Chaffee County works to address high instances of wildlife related car crashes

By Briana Heaney

A bronze statue of a person on horseback stands on a stone pedestal at a street corner, with a red brick building and several cars at an intersection in the background.

Part of Boulder Street in downtown Colorado Springs closing for Palmer High School renovations

Grand Junction's first protected bike lane on Fourth Street

Government and Politics

Bike-lane backlash? Grand Junction City Council winners shared aversion to recent downtown changes

By Tom Hesse and Stina Sieg

Scene of a light rail train crash at night

1 dead in crash on RTD light rail track in Lone Tree

By Nathaniel Minor

Close-up of a bright red "PRESS" button on a motor vehicle seat belt

Colorado Wonders

Coloradans don’t use their seat belts as much as other Americans. How do we snap out of it?

Trucks piled up on Interstate 70 after a dust storm in Kansas

‘I couldn’t even see the hood of my car’ Colorado family caught in deadly 71-car pile-up caused by Kansas dust storm

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8 people died on Colorado’s roads this holiday weekend

By Shanna Lewis

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