Tag: Commerce City
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Teen restaurant employee injured in Commerce City shooting
Commerce City police continue to search for the suspect
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Adams County commissioners award $9M for open space projects
Adams County residents will start seeing the benefits from an Open Space Sales Tax in the form of new playgrounds, ballfields, trails and aquatic center additions. Last week, the Adams County Board of Commissioners awarded $9 million in open space grants for 21 projects in cities and towns including Thornton, Westminster, Bennett, Strasburg and Brighton.…
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Air pollution emissions spike from Suncor’s Commerce City refinery detected
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to add a response from Suncor received Friday. A large spike in levels of sulfur dioxide emitted from Suncor’s Commerce City refinery was detected by air monitoring equipment north of the refinery at 5:18 a.m. Wednesday, according to…
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Commerce City air pollution sources widespread, not just from Suncor refinery
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A year-long Commerce City air pollution study by Cultivando, a non-profit Hispanic health organization, returned some surprising information about the sources of pollution in the area surrounding the Suncor oil refinery located there and thought by residents to be the chief source of pollutants. The…
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Indigenous man missing from Commerce City
Deandre Yazzie was last seen Thursday at 1 p.m. in the area of East 96th Avenue and Peoria Street
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Suncor to reopen part of refinery
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Suncor Energy has begun repair and restart work on one of three plants at the company’s refinery in Commerce City and expects to have it back up and running sometime next week. A Suncor spokesperson told the Denver Gazette’s news partner 9NEWS it will take…
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STEAD School keeps striving for innovative education
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Several sophomores huddled into an office, laptops open, ready to pitch their latest project idea: a flea-market style event at their school selling specialty products made right on campus. They wanted to give peers a way to sell items like honey, beeswax chap sticks and…
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Suncor released potentially unhealthy levels of benzene into Sand Creek after December fire
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Suncor released potentially unhealthy levels of benzene into Sand Creek after a December refinery fire, according to the Colorado Department of Health and Environment. After the two fires that injured two employees at Suncor’s Commerce City refinery, the company shut down the plant for repairs…
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Gas prices likely to rise as Suncor refinery shuts down
Colorado gas prices will undoubtedly rise after Commerce City’s Suncor oil refinery shut down for at least three months after sustaining damage to its equipment, according to company officials. They attributed the damage to “extreme and record-setting weather” in a news release Wednesday. The company will shut the entire facility down for inspection and repair…
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Commerce City crash kills 1, injures another
A vehicle crash in Commerce City killed one and injured another Friday night, police said. Commerce City Police responded to the crash at 6:45 p.m. Friday in the 6000 block of Sandcreek Drive South. According to police, one vehicle occupant was pronounced dead at the scene. An occupant of another vehicle was taken to the…