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A University of Colorado faculty member who got one of the nation’s top teaching honors this week was nearly turned down when he came up for tenure a dozen years ago...

Grandpa isn’t one to sit idle. Even at 90, he wakes up early every morning and walks at least a mile with Grandma, my...

It wasn’t a real courtroom, but the 200-plus people in attendance took the final verdict seriously. When the word “guilty” finally rang out, it...

New law aims to reduce composting confusion  Gov. Polis signed a bill (SB23-253) on May 17 that sets standards on products represented as compostable to...

The library and the post office. A dozen schools. Hundreds of homes. Parks. Every brewery (oh god). Ten gas stations. The wastewater treatment facility. It can all go up in flames at any minute — and that’s just in Longmont. All you’ll hear is a whistle and a boom...

Boulder Weekly has a tradition: The editorial staff at BW uses the last issue of every year to write a personal essay. These personal...

Last week, in part one of this series, we examined how fracking and oil and gas shale development is likely driving down home values for the millions of Americans living near wells, production platforms, pipelines and other industrial paraphernalia belonging to the ...

Preliminary hearing set in King Soopers shooting trial The defendant in the King Soopers shooting trial, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, is set for a preliminary...

Last summer, June 17 to be exact, one of the volunteers on Margot McMillen’s organic farm in Auxvasse, Missouri noticed something funny about the grapes...

LOS ANGELES — Say goodbye to naked scanner images...

This week’s serialized installment of The curation of discovery begins with a continuation of the conversation between myself and Ava Hamilton, an Arapaho and...

There isn’t a roadmap for the Colorado River crisis.  Lake Mead and Powell reservoirs, vaults of Western water, are historically low. There’s more demand and...