Author: Matt Kyle
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RTD gets pushback over proposed cuts, including end of 16th Street FreeRide service
With RTD looking to reduce bus and rail line services in Denver amid financial constraints, people are rallying against the proposed cuts. RTD’s Operations, Safety and Security Committee during a Wednesday meeting discussed potential cuts and recommended cutting $31 million from the agency’s budget, which would eliminate up to 10% of bus and light rail…
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Wildfire sparks on pass near Steamboat Springs, evacuations ordered
Evacuation orders have been issued for areas near two wildfires burning in Routt County. The orders were issued Sunday afternoon for the Green Ridge fire, burning south of Steamboat Springs near the Stagecoach Reservoir. That fire is estimated at about 8 acres. Pre-evacuation orders were also issued for some areas near the fire. An evacuation…
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Broomfield passes temporary ban on new data center construction
Those looking to build a data center in Broomfield will need to look elsewhere for the next 18 months. The City and County of Broomfield on Tuesday established a moratorium barring new data center construction that is set to last until December 2027, or until City Council passes regulations for new developments. Officials said the…
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Colorado Attorney General sues HUD over changes to homeless funding
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser on Tuesday joined the attorneys general of several other states to sue the federal government over an attempt to cap funding for permanent housing projects. The change would result in tens of thousands of people losing their homes, according to a news release from Weiser’s office and comes after a…
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Unidentified, unclaimed: How the Denver Medical Examiner’s office reunites people with their deceased loved ones
More than a dozen corpses at the Denver Medical Examiner’s Office are unidentified and officials have no idea who they are. Some of these people were found dead within the last few months. Others have waited years, even decades, to be identified. In some cases, investigators managed to piece together their identity, only to find…
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Trump administration warns Jeffco Public Schools it will lose federal funding over transgender issue
The U.S. Department of Education on Friday warned Jeffco Public Schools it has 10 days to correct alleged Title IX violations over the Colorado district’s transgender policy or lose federal funding. The Notice of Impending Action is the latest development in an ongoing saga between the district and the federal government that started last year,…
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Jeffco Public Schools: Boys on girls’ sports rosters were mascots, not athletes
Jeffco Public Schools this week said the boys the Trump administration claimed to have found on girls’ sports rosters were trainers, mascots and managers, not student-athletes. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights announced in March that a months-long investigation into alleged Title IX violations committed by Jeffco found that 61 boys were…
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Arvada woman charged with murder after her teen daughter dies from alcohol abuse
An Arvada woman has been charged with murder after authorities said she supplied her 16-year-old daughter with alcohol for a prolonged period, leading up to her death. Arvada Police Department officers were called at about 8:15 a.m. on March 9 to the 6400 block of West 85th Avenue on reports of an unresponsive teenage girl,…
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‘I thought I was gonna die;’ JeffCo teen shot in face recounts shooting during trial
A Jefferson County teen who was shot in the face when he and his friend were seeking a spot to take homecoming photos said he believed he was going to die as he recounted the shooting during trial testimony on Thursday. The second-degree assault trial for Brent John Metz, 40, a former Mountain View council…
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How a CU Boulder law school program helped free a Denver man after 27 years in ‘shaken baby’ murder case
From the first time she looked at Stephen Martinez’s case, Boulder attorney Jeanne Segil knew she had a shot at getting him released from prison. Martinez, 58, spent 27 years behind bars for a crime he now says never happened. Four-month-old Heather Lynn Mares, the daughter of Martinez’s roommate, died Oct. 17, 1998 after she…