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When the city of Boulder issued a press release in December 2011 announcing that it, along with Honeywell International and Tusco Inc., had reached a settlement agreement with the Department of Justice on behalf of the EPA regarding the cost of investigating and ...

The job of journalists is to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” In November 1995, it would have been hard to find anyone in Boulder more afflicted and uncomfortable than Anita Belletti. When Boulder Weekly interviewed Belletti, she was undergoing ...

For years, Seth Brigham was one of Boulder’s gadflies, coloring Boulder’s city council meetings with provocative, uncomfortable pronouncements and, dare we say, unconventional ways of presenting information to elected officials, which included stripping down to ...

Like so many important stories that have appeared in Boulder Weekly, this one started out over beers at a local dive...

The week leading up to Oct. 18, 2012, was a tense one for Boulder Weekly journalists. The grisly murder of Jessica Ridgeway was dominating media coverage and conversation around the state, and a choice had to be made: Continue to cover news that the staff had planned...

First Boulder Weekly scooped the nation by sounding the alarm about the militia movement the day after the Oklahoma City bombing. Then the paper delved into the world of the foreclosed farms and struggling communities of the heartland that had led to the smoking ...

Time and again, Boulder Weekly has brought images to readers that will illustrate a point that can be tough to understand as a simple concept, and in few places has this proved more wise a choice than in the coverage of hydraulic fracturing. One map says it all: a ...

This story experienced the 1997 version of going viral. How big of an impact did the Weekly’s exclusive interviews with fugitive Richard Keyes, who at the time of the interviews was on the run and on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list really have? Big … really big...

Over the last 1,000 weeks, Boulder Weekly has published many memorable stories in a number of categories, including in-depth investigations, long-form explanatory pieces, features that have made our readers both laugh and cry, thought-provoking coverage of arts ...

This story was a classic Boulder Weekly investigation that led to the discovery of corruption within the ranks of the City of Boulder. As a result of this piece, the city made significant changes to ensure that what had occurred could never happen again...

Former Boulder Weekly Editor Pamela White first wrote about the treatment of pregnant women in prison on Aug. 2, 2001. The story was called “Woman in chains,” and it was about an inmate who went into labor prematurely but was denied medical attention — and even ...

Boulder Weekly’s cover story “Why are we so hated?” published in the immediate wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, garnered more mail than any other single story the paper had run up to that time. Letters came from across the United States, from Europe and...