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Boulder shows solidarity with Dakota Access pipeline protesters
On Tuesday Sept. 13 and 14, more than 200 separate protests were held across the country against the Dakota Access pipeline.
The protests, three of...
Boulder County news roundup: Climate protest, arrest bill pulled, and more
Protesters demonstrate against threat of climate bill veto
A group of protesters are donning red robes and clock-face masks outside the state Capitol this week...
Anywhere but there
Araceli Velasquez fled El Salvador by herself in 2010 when she was 19 years old. She left to escape the grip of an ex-boyfriend...
Victor’s heart
Victor, who emigrated from Guatemala in 1999, always carries a letter from his doctor, just in case. From Salud Medical Center in Longmont, Victor’s...
Tracking down the trafficked
In 2012, the FBI recovered 49 girls who were victims of sex trafficking in Denver. Some were runaways from broken homes, homes with a history of child abuse. Some may have been in and out of state care, including juvenile detention facilities, and had already been ...
News briefs: Oil and gas ask for bailout money, Boulder County...
The Trump administration met with oil and gas companies on April 3 to discuss how the federal government could benefit the industry during the...
To drill on Colorado public land, feds will need to assess...
About 150,000 acres of public land in Colorado and Utah previously pegged to be leased for oil and gas operations will need to undergo...
Little fires everywhere, outdoor dining here to stay
Tourists, residents and workers loved Boulder’s pandemic-prompted proliferation of al fresco dining. That’s according to a survey of 836 people from earlier this year...
37 crows, a pile of West Nile virus research, and one...
Since 2013, Dr. Greg Ebel and a team of researchers at the Colorado State University Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases laboratory, or the Ebel Lab,...
‘Until we’re all home’
It’s a clear Friday evening in Lyons — the first day of this year’s Rocky Mountain Folks Festival — and a silver-bearded man in...
Longmont’s City Council election gets rough
Municipal elections are supposed to be quiet, nonpartisan events that revolve around things like city council seats, libraries, and maybe the tile in the locker rooms at the local recreation center. In fact, municipal elections are perceived by many to be so ...
A queer kind of love
Earlier this year, Boulder was named one of the queerest cities in the U.S. — number 10 in a list of 15, to be exact — by Adovcate.com. This list was intended to highlight “the queerness of some less expected locales...


















