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| Aug 15, 2026 | Extreme drought is frying Colorado. Why do half of its biggest towns lack mandatory watering restrictions? | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Want to water your grass limitlessly without risking a fine? In some Front Range towns, residents still can water without inhibition despite searing drought. A green yard is visible in front of a d... |
| Aug 2, 2026 | How severe drought is affecting Colorado, from record fishing restrictions to threatened power supplies | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Drought has raked its fingers across Colorado. By mid-summer, its mark is difficult to ignore.
Some reservoirs have fallen so low that they instead look more like the rivers they once were. Boat ra... |
| Jul 26, 2026 | Reservoirs are strained. Lawns are crispy. Will metro Denver face more severe summer watering restrictions? | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Water levels across the four reservoirs Highlands Ranch Water taps to serve its 103,000 customers in Douglas County are down by 20% from where they usually sit at this time of year.
Aurora has levi... |
| Jun 29, 2026 | U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on water battle between Colorado and Nebraska | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on a legal battle over one of Colorado’s critical water sources as a neighboring state seeks to use more water from the South Platte River.
The nation’s highest... |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Some Colorado campgrounds won’t have water for visitors this summer | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Campers looking to enjoy Colorado’s wilderness this summer should be prepared to bring extra water for drinking and washing their hands, even when staying at established campgrounds.
Several campgr... |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Three Colorado coal plants are staying open longer. Experts say that only prolongs their impacts on public health. | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado Springs resident Jane Ard-Smith told Colorado state lawmakers in April that granting a request by her municipal utility to keep its coal-fired power plant running three years past its plan... |
| Jun 15, 2026 | CPW salvages over 1,000 trout from Antero Reservoir | CPW aquatic biologists capture trout from drained Antero Reservoir and relocate sportfish
June 15, 2026
Colorado Parks and Wildlife salvages over 1,000 trout from Antero Reservoir
PARK COUNTY, Colo. — Colorado Parks and Wildlife aquatic bio... |
| Jun 14, 2026 | Gross Dam’s $600 million expansion is largely done. Will Denver Water ever get to fill its expanded reservoir? | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
BOULDER COUNTY — Jeff Martin couldn’t sleep the night Gross Dam was scheduled for completion.
In the wee hours of June 3, he got up every hour to check the livestream of workers laying the final la... |
| Jun 4, 2026 | Colorado Gov. Jared Polis declares statewide drought emergency | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado’s state leadership on Thursday declared a drought emergency as this winter’s record-low snowpack and an abnormally warm spring fuel one of the worst statewide droughts on record.
The emerg... |
| May 29, 2026 | Denver Broncos, CDOT finalize $45.8 million Burnham Yard purchase agreement | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The Denver Broncos and the Colorado Department of Transportation have finalized an agreement allowing the football team to buy Burnham Yard, the abandoned railyard at the center of its plans to bui... |
| Mar 28, 2026 | Five questions for Broncos’ Sean Payton, George Paton and Greg Penner at NFL owners’ meetings | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
In 2025, the Joker was the defining character of the Broncos’ offseason. This spring, it’s the Penguin.
After months bandying about the term joker to describe his team’s need for a matchup-threat p... |
| Mar 21, 2026 | Community Editorial Board: Considering the Colorado River | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Members of our Community Editorial Board, a group of community residents who are engaged with and passionate about local issues, respond to the following question: Extended warm weather across the ... |
| Mar 19, 2026 | Colorado’s mountains are likely already at peak snowpack. Now the heat dome will kick off melting. | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado’s mountains have likely already hit peak snowpack, and record-high heat forecast for the coming days will kick off widespread melting even at high elevations — weeks ahead of normal.
A hea... |
| Mar 9, 2026 | Colorado River may deliver just a third of normal water supplies this spring, projections show | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Extended warm weather across the Colorado River basin may reduce the amount of water delivered during the spring runoff to just a third of normal, according to federal forecasters.
Modeling release... |
| Feb 3, 2026 | Broncos push ahead with land acquisitions near Burnham Yard for new stadium | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The Denver Broncos have quietly continued acquiring properties around Burnham Yard, a former Union Pacific railyard and the team’s preferred site for a new stadium, since announcing their plans in ... |
| Jan 25, 2026 | In Colorado’s devastatingly dry winter, hope abounds for big snows to round out the season: ‘It’s not time for panic’ | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Anu Koiv emerged from her Gunbarrel home in the middle of January and spotted something she hadn’t seen in the seven years she’s lived there: pink flowers blooming on a backyard viburnum shrub. In ... |
| Jan 18, 2026 | As upgrades to Broomfield’s water systems continue, some residents remain critical a year after 50% utility bill increase | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Nearly a year after Broomfielders saw a 50% increase in their water bills, the city continues to work toward updating its infrastructure, but some residents are concerned about more increases with ... |
| Nov 16, 2025 | Demise of historic Jefferson County ranch means long-term protection for a critical Arvada water source | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Three of every four gallons of water used by Arvada residents come from Ralston Reservoir.
That key water source will gain new protection in January, when a 230-acre purchase of historic ranch land... |
| Nov 14, 2025 | Experts share their favorite winter birding destinations in Colorado | It’s hard to believe Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat used to be a gravel pit. Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat attracts plenty of wildlife, including a large number of migrating birds in the winter. (Ben Siebrase, Special to The Denver Post)
The... |
| Nov 9, 2025 | Amid ‘a transparency desert,’ states look likely to blow past Colorado River deadline. What’s next? | Negotiators tasked with hammering out the future of the shrinking Colorado River — and the 40 million people who rely on it — are once again careening toward a deadline imposed by federal authorities, with little progress to show publicly.
... |
| Sep 27, 2025 | Colorado Green Business Network announces 24k Gold Award and Innovation Spotlight Awards to honor businesses | Denver (September 26, 2025) – Today, the Colorado Green Business Network awarded Arapahoe Basin Ski Area with the 24-Karat Gold Award for its commitment to sustainability and the success of the resort’s comprehensive waste reduction program... |
| Sep 21, 2025 | Move over, green lawns. Drier, warmer climate boosts interest in low-water landscaping | By CALEIGH WELLS and BRITTANY PETERSON
LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) — When Lena Astilli first bought her home outside of Denver, she had no interest in matching the wall-to-wall green lawns that dominated her block. She wanted native plants — the ... |
| Sep 21, 2025 | Colorado’s water war with Nebraska comes to a head over South Platte River | JULESBURG — The town hall in the far-northeastern corner of the state wasn’t billed as specific to one topic, but as soon as Colorado’s attorney general opened the floor to questions, there was clearly a dominant one on the minds of many in... |
| Sep 14, 2025 | What stands between Broncos and a stadium at Burnham Yard? A community deal, council votes and land cleanup | The Denver Broncos may have finished their search for a new stadium site, but it’s just the beginning of a long process to make the team’s new home at Burnham Yard a reality.
There will be community negotiations. There will be an environmen... |
| Aug 13, 2025 | Denver Water approves $2 million purchase of property near Burnham Yard amid stadium talks | The utility will purchase the land for about $2 million, according to the purchase and sale agreement. The land is appraised at $1.7 million, according to Denver property records. A company called 1801 West 13th LLC, which is based in Color... |
| Jul 31, 2025 | Denver may soon have multiple stadium districts along the South Platte River. Can the city support them all? | “It is a boon,” Torres said. “It is also kind of blasting open the doors for everybody else’s interests as well. And that can happen — that can kind of steamroll community, in a lot of ways that makes me really worried.”
Clustering such dis... |
| Jul 2, 2025 | Front Range concerns over purchase of Colorado River rights on Western Slope to get hearing | The river district has repeatedly said it plans to maintain the status quo and will not use more water than has been used in the past. Disputes about the amount of water historically used under a water right should be settled in water court... |
| Jun 21, 2025 | CU Boulder team deploys sensors in Boulder Creek to enhance water quality monitoring | Boulder’s Urban Water Quality Program Coordinator Michael Lawlor said the city has been monitoring bacteria in Boulder Creek for about 30 years. He said the city was interested in the CU Boulder team’s sensors because they give Boulder a re... |
| Jun 10, 2025 | Denver Water plans appeal of judge’s ban on filling expanded Gross Reservoir | Federal regulators failed to properly analyze the project’s environmental impacts or analyze less harmful options for Denver Water to meet its water supply needs, the project’s opponents argued.
Arguello in October issued a ruling agreeing ... |
| Jun 9, 2025 | 3 in 5 Colorado third-graders had cavities or a history of tooth decay | According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 409 of Colorado’s 947 water systems have fluoridated water, though some, such as Colorado Springs, don’t need to add the mineral because the water picks up naturally occurring flu... |
| May 30, 2025 | Gross Dam construction can continue, but Denver Water can’t fill enlarged reservoir, judge rules | Arguello agreed with some of the environmental groups’ arguments and on April 3 ordered Denver Water to stop construction on the $531 million project because the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated federal environmental law in its permitt... |
| Apr 19, 2025 | The Battle Over Water: Denver's Gross Reservoir Expansion Faces Legal Storm | In the heart of Colorado, a fierce battle brews over water. Denver Water is pushing forward with the expansion of Gross Reservoir, a project that promises to triple its capacity. This expansion is not just about water; it’s about survival. ... |
| Apr 16, 2025 | Denver Water forges ahead on Gross Dam construction — for now — while project remains in legal jeopardy | Expanding Gross Reservoir is critical to add water storage capabilities on the north end of the utility’s water supply system and to create more of a safeguard in case the much larger south end of the system becomes impaired, according to D... |
| Apr 8, 2025 | Judge allows Denver Water two more weeks of Gross Dam construction before court-ordered halt | f construction is delayed, the utility will not be able to meet that deadline, exposing it to financial penalties, the loss of its hydropower license or criminal prosecution, Denver Water’s attorneys wrote.
Denver Water planned to raise the... |
| Apr 4, 2025 | When heavy rainfall threatens flooding, you can protect yourself. Here’s how | Should you try to evacuate or stay put?
If there are local orders to evacuate, you need to heed them. Gather important documents, get enough gas to drive out and prepare to be away for an extended period of time, said Jeannette Sutton, asso... |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Judge orders Denver Water to halt Gross Reservoir expansion in Boulder County | “Denver Water rolled the dice with ratepayers’ money, which was a mistake,” Gary Wockner of Save the Colorado, the lawsuit’s lead plaintiff, said in a statement. “We remain open to negotiations to find a mutually agreeable path forward.”
De... |
| Oct 19, 2024 | Colorado's Snowy Weekend and Legal Battles Over Water: A Tale of Nature and Law | Colorado is a land of contrasts. This weekend, the state is bracing for its first significant snowfall of the season. In the mountains, snowflakes will dance down, painting the landscape white. But beneath this serene surface, a storm brews... |
| Oct 17, 2024 | Feds’ approval of Gross Reservoir dam expansion violated environmental law, judge rules | Denver Water began the permitting process for the project in 2002 and began construction on the $531 million dam project in 2022. Already, workers have partially deconstructed the existing dam to prepare it for expansion, dumped fill materi... |
| Aug 29, 2024 | Why do the flaming carcasses of electrocuted birds keep starting Colorado wildfires? | On July 31, the West Metro Fire District responded to a small brush fire in Jefferson County near Morrison after a bird was electrocuted by overhead power lines, caught on fire and fell to the ground, igniting the grass and brush below, the... |
| May 3, 2024 | Local News | Denver Water launches next phase of Gross Reservoir expansion | Martin said the water utility will raise the dam using roller-compacted concrete, made from a blend of cement and fly ash, which occurs naturally but is also a by-product of coal burning.Workers are at a test site for the roller compacted c... |
| Apr 29, 2024 | Local News | Boulder County launches survey on Gross Reservoir lawsuit settlement | Boulder County is asking the community to weigh in on how part of the money from the Denver Water v. Boulder County settlement agreement should be spent. According to a release, $5.1 million of those funds are meant for purchasing land in t... |
| Sep 7, 2023 | Environmental groups renew legal challenge of massive Denver Water reservoir expansion | A years-long legal battle over the expansion of one of the reservoirs holding Denver’s water supply entered a new chapter this week when environmental groups asked a judge to invalidate the federal permits underlying the $464 million projec... |
| Jun 27, 2023 | Colorado News
Colorado News | Boulder County meeting to distribute $5M in funds to residents impacted by Gross Reservoir construction | The Boulder County Commissioners will host a public meeting Thursday to determine how to distribute $5 million in funding to residents impacted by Denver Water’s expansion of Gross Reservoir.
Attendees can join the meeting, set for 3 p.m. T... |
| May 18, 2023 | Why Crystal Dam in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison is releasing billions of gallons of water | Billions of gallons of water are rushing this week out of the Blue Mesa Reservoir on Colorado’s Western Slope, through the Black Canyon of the Gunnison and ultimately into the Colorado River.
For the first time in a few years, Colorado has ... |
| Jun 30, 2022 | Outdoors
Outdoors | Paddleboarding in Colorado: Where you can go, where you can rent, and tips for a fun day on the water | Paddleboarding has become a quintessential summer experience in Colorado.
But before you head out for a day on the water, plan ahead. Here are some things to consider:
Can you use your own board, or must you rent a board at the site?
Where ... |
| Jul 8, 2021 | The best ways to explore metro Denver by bike | It’s no secret that cycling is one of the trendiest ways to get around Denver. With nearly 200 miles of on-street bike lanes and more than 80 miles of off-street and multi-use trails within city limits, the options to explore via two wheels... |
| Jul 5, 2021 | The best ways to explore metro Denver by bike | It’s no secret that cycling is one of the trendiest ways to get around Denver. With nearly 200 miles of on-street bike lanes and more than 80 miles of off-street and multi-use trails within city limits, the options to explore via two wheels... |
| Mar 16, 2020 | Denver residents to get reprieve from evictions, utility shutoffs during coronavirus crisis | Cash-strapped Denver residents who are at risk of having their utilities cut off during the coronavirus crisis — or even losing their homes — will get a reprieve, city and utility leaders said Monday.
“Now is not the time to be evicting peo... |
