Author: Dennis Huspeni
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Busy travel weekend for Colorado highways looms
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s not exactly a news flash to Colorado residents or frequent visitors, but Colorado highways are going to be busy this holiday weekend. Whether travelers are headed to resort town for Oktoberfests scheduled this weekend, trying to get in one last camping weekend or looking…
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Former Channel 7 building is coming down – story ending piece by piece
Workers this week began demolishing the brown “brutalist”-style architecture building formerly home to Channel 7 at 123 Speer Blvd. The demolition, by general contractor Milender White, is expected to take 12 weeks. There will likely be impacts to traffic on the busy street corner at Speer, Lincoln Street and East 6th Avenue. Developer PMG plans…
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Top Colorado wines chosen for Governor’s Cup honors
The judges sniffed, swirled and tasted more than 250 wines to come up with the best 12 for 2025 Governor’s Cup Collection. The Colorado Wine Industry Development Board announced the winners Thursday. Nine wineries nabbed honors for seven red, and five white wines. And for the first time in the competition’s history, neighboring state wineries…
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Centennial fire shutters four businesses
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save An overnight fire at a Centennial strip mall on Arapahoe Road near Havana Street shuttered four businesses as the building was declared uninhabitable. South Metro Fire Rescue crews were called out to the structure fire just after 1 a.m. Thursday at 11001 E. Arapahoe Place. …
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Didn’t get Savannah Bananas tickets? Here’s how to partake in the fun anyway
Denver is officially going bananas this weekend. The pop culture phenom Savannah Bananas play two sold-out games at Coors Field Saturday and Sunday. But even if fans didn’t get tickets to the games — which sold out in under two hours — there’s events close to the games to get yellow fever going. The famed independent baseball…
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Great American Beer Festival tickets on sale
Grab your lederhosen and pretzel necklaces Coloradans — 2025 Great American Beer Festival tickets are now on sale. Festival goers will get a chance to sample some 2,000 beers by more than 400 breweries nationwide at the annual event, with three sessions at the Colorado Convention Center from Oct. 9-11. Tickets to the general public went on…
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Arsonist who burned Colorado Supreme Court courthouse pleads guilty
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Arizona man who broke into the Colorado Supreme Court building last year pleaded guilty to a felony arson charge on Friday, according to the Denver District Attorney. Brandon Olsen, 46, shot his way into the courthouse early Jan. 2, 2024. He then held a…
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Colorado attorney general sues Mesa County sheriff’s deputy over assisting ICE
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser filed a civil lawsuit against a Mesa County Sheriff’s Office deputy who tipped ICE off — via a routinely used multi-agency communications channel — to a college student who has overstayed her visa. Weiser filed the case before the county’s sheriff has completed…
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Satellite company looking at Broomfield for U.S. subsidiary
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s Economic Development Commission on Thursday approved economic incentives for a European telecommunications and weather monitoring satellite company to open a subsidiary in Broomfield. Dubbed Project SAM — company names are kept private during the competitive location process — could receive up to $110,094 in Job Growth…