| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.01.2025 | Tensions Rise Over Housing and Traffic Decisions in Boulder County | Boulder County is a tapestry of communities, each thread woven with unique concerns and aspirations. Recently, two significant issues have emerged, igniting debates among residents and officials alike. The first revolves around the allocati... |
| 04.01.2025 | Local News | Some Niwot residents unhappy about Monarch Road median closure | “I’ve never considered that intersection dangerous in the least,” Winter said of Colo. 119 and Monarch. “You have turn-off and turn-on lanes; you have great visibility in both directions.”
Winter said he’d like to see the county conduct a s... |
| 21.12.2024 | Navigating Colorado's Winter Roads: A Guide to Safe Travel Amidst the Storms | As winter blankets Colorado, the highways transform into a battleground of snow and ice. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is bracing for a surge in traffic, particularly on the notorious I-70 corridor. With over a million ve... |
| 19.12.2024 | CDOT braces for holiday surge in traffic — and winter storms — on I-70 and other highways | In December 2023, CDOT counted 1,068,736 vehicles rolling through the Eisenhower tunnel. Traction law violations that month led to 60 traffic backups and 208 hours of delay.
CDOT analysts have calculated that one hour of delay along I-70 ca... |
| 14.12.2024 | Colorado's Road Safety Crisis: A Call for Action | Colorado's roads are a battleground. Every day, lives hang in the balance. Advocates are sounding the alarm. They argue that tougher laws could save lives. The statistics are stark. Distracted driving and impaired drivers are a plague. Vuln... |
| 12.12.2024 | Crime and Public Safety | One dead and another in hospital after crash southeast of Longmont | One person is dead and another is in the hospital after a crash Thursday morning that occurred southeast of Longmont in unincorporated Weld County.
According to Mountain View Fire Rescue’s Facebook post, around 7 a.m., emergency crews were ... |
| 10.12.2024 | Tougher seatbelt, distracted driving laws would improve Colorado’s yellow card road safety score, advocates say | “You never think it will happen to you, until it does,” advocate group president Cathy Chase said in Thursday’s news conference.
Downing said one of Colorado’s biggest problems is protecting vulnerable road users — pedestrians, bikers and l... |
| 06.11.2024 | Crime and Public Safety | Sheriff’s office: Pedestrian hit by car while crossing Colo. 128 | A motorist struck a pedestrian crossing the street in the early evening on Tuesday at Colo. 128 and Ridge Parkway near Broomfield, according to the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office.
The pedestrian received serious injuries in the crash aroun... |
| 24.10.2024 | Crime and Public Safety | Police arrest suspect in connection with stolen vehicle crash near Valmont Road | Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a crash around 1:58 p.m. Thursday involving a stolen vehicle near Valmont Road and North 95th Street, according to the Colorado State Patrol.
Colorado State Patrol Trooper Sherri Mendez said... |
| 18.10.2024 | Crime and Public Safety | Pueblo man made fake kidnapping report, prompting Amber Alert, to find stolen truck, police say | TV station KOAA reported that Reyes’ arrest affidavit states he told investigators that he knowingly made the false report to try to speed up the process of finding his stolen truck. The Denver Post was not immediately able to obtain the af... |
| 03.10.2024 | Crime and Public Safety | Driver taken to hospital after crashing into Colorado National Guard maintenance facility near Firestone | One driver was taken to the hospital Thursday after crashing into a maintenance facility for the Colorado National Guard near Firestone.
According to Mountain View Fire Rescue’s Facebook post, just after 12:30 p.m. Thursday, a call came in ... |
| 01.10.2024 | Colorado pedestrian fatalities increased by 161% over the last 10 years | “There is a national trend of roadway traffic fatalities increasing. Are people just being more careless? I don’t know. But a lot of this has to do with the variety of roadway users out there,” CDOT spokesman Sam Cole said in January. “We s... |
| 07.08.2024 | Navigating Change: Colorado's New Motorcycle Filtering Law and Traffic Safety Initiatives | In the heart of Colorado, a new law is revving up conversations about motorcycle safety and traffic management. The recent enactment of motorcycle filtering legislation marks a significant shift in how motorcyclists navigate congested roads... |
| 06.08.2024 | Crime and Public Safety | New motorcycle filtering law goes into effect in Colorado | According to the American Motorcycle Association, legislatively, there has been activity on lane splitting in several states, but only California has enacted a law.
“Statistics show these types of laws do not increase motorcycle crashes,” C... |
| 28.07.2024 | Navigating the Streets of Safety: A Dual Approach to Crime and Traffic in Denver | In the heart of Denver, two pressing issues collide: crime and traffic safety. The city grapples with rising violence on public transit while simultaneously striving to reduce pedestrian fatalities. Both challenges demand immediate attentio... |
| 26.07.2024 | Crime and Public Safety | Fewer pedestrians killed on Colorado roads in 2024; still “a long way to go,” officials say | Denver Streets Partnership Executive Director Jill Locantore said while she wasn’t ready to get out the pom-poms, the state data is a good sign.
“We’re always cautious with just one year’s or a partial year’s worth of data, whether that tru... |
| 08.05.2024 | Politics | Colorado is close to outlawing all hand-held cellphone use behind the wheel after lawmakers pass bill | The bill, which covers all electronic devices, initially would have made hand-held use by drivers a primary offense, like failure to wear a seat belt under many states’ laws. That would mean police could stop and cite violators without evid... |
| 11.03.2024 | Colorado car insurance rates among fastest rising in country and more increases expected | Kyle Shirley put off a marketing plan for his roofing company after insurance premiums for his work trucks shot up 55%. Becky Brinkerhoff’s insurance bill has doubled and she is checking with other companies for a better deal. Stephanie Ran... |
| 02.03.2024 | Crime and Public Safety | Boulder County Mountain View Fire Rescue workers to drivers: Slow down | Emergency workers at Mountain View Fire Rescue are calling on drivers to slow down in accident zones after several recent close calls, including at a crash on Colo. 66 near Linda Vista Drive in January.
“When I was on the scene at that cras... |
| 19.08.2023 | Crime and Public Safety | Boulder County sees four motorcycle fatalities this summer as state numbers rise | On Aug. 3, Owen Eldridge was riding his motorcycle down 30th Street in Boulder when he collided with an SUV and died. Nine days later, Brett Christiansen was riding in south Boulder when he was killed at an intersection.
While Eldridge and ... |
| 11.01.2023 | Crime and Public Safety
Crime and Public Safety | Five indicted by statewide grand jury in metro-area auto theft and burglary ring | A statewide grand jury indicted five suspects in connection to an alleged auto theft and burglary ring that operated in the metro area, including parts of Boulder, Weld and Broomfield Counties, and into Clear Creek County.
The five defendan... |
| 09.05.2022 | Crime and Public Safety
Crime and Public Safety | Thefts of catalytic converters are skyrocketing. Why? And what are lawmakers and law enforcement doing about it? | When Alan Bucknam’s teenage child started the Toyota 4Runner to drive to school, it sounded like a Harley Davidson revving up.
“I figured either the muffler fell off or the catalytic converter was taken out,” Bucknam said.
He looked underne... |