Month: August 2025

awesome + uniting

• 200,000 expected in Colorado Springs for Labor Day Liftoff, a weekend-long hot air balloon festival
• More than 3.5 million birds migrated over Colorado in 1 night this week. Residents are being asked to turn out their lights to help them
• Colorado Among Top States to See Significant Drop in Alcohol Use

awesome + controversy

• As the FDA approves new COVID vaccine guidelines for the fall, Colorado might look elsewhere for guidance
• Custer County offers free corn after truck spill
• Most expensive house for sale in America hits Aspen market

awful + uniting

• Black and Gold: Hurricane Katrina survivors, rescuers in Colorado reflect on deadly storm 20 years later
• FBI investigates CU Boulder swatting incident as cases rise across the U.S.
• Pueblo County Coroner Brian Cotter resigns

awful + controversy

• Democrats end Colorado’s special legislative session by completing punt on AI law into next year
• Air Force Academy cancels lecture after discovering speaker disparaged Trump
• Trump administration says Denver school’s all-gender bathrooms violate Title IX

awesome + uniting

• Racing pigs? Funnel cakes? Inflatable corn maze? It must be time for the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo
• ‘It’s awesome to see people just lending a hand,’ 50 volunteers help paint and fix up homes in Pueblo
• It’s A Magical World: Unicorn Festival at Arapahoe County Fairgrounds August 23 & 24

awesome + controversy

• Colorado to feel like fall for several days with cooler temperatures and chance of storms
• Broncos’ starters still working out the kinks in final preseason game vs. Saints
• Bipartisan compromise enables wolf reintroduction to proceed, while rerouting funding for health care costs

awful + uniting

• 96K Coloradans could face health insurance cuts under Rocky Mountain HMO, Anthem HMO: CO Division of Insurance
• Jefferson County investigators say stabbing of Colorado park ranger an “elaborate hoax”
• 6 people found dead during confined space rescue at Northern Colorado dairy farm

awful + controversy

• Taxes, AI and health care: Everything you need to know about Colorado’s special legislative session
• Trump threatens ‘harsh measures’ in another call for Tina Peters’ release
• Republican state representative resigns, sparing him from censure by Democrats in Colorado House

awesome + uniting

• The Denver Zoo has 4 new lion cubs, but you won’t see them for a while
• Colorado homicides fall to lowest level since 2019
• The walking bridge at Denver International Airport is open for departing and arriving passengers

awesome + controversy

• Colorado moving ahead with fast EV chargers despite pause in federal funding
• $280 million at stake if Colorado cities don’t start complying with housing policies
• An experiment cut youth violence arrests in a Denver neighborhood by 75%, now it might be defunded

awful + uniting

• Woman says she’d ‘almost rather be outside’ than stay in Salvation Army-run shelter in Denver
• LGBTQ+ community packs Lakewood City Council to support Jax Gratton, demand independent investigation
• Polis declares disaster emergency for Colorado amid critical fire weather

awful + controversy

• Angry Democratic members of Congress get a planned tour of ICE detention facility, leave with questions
• From dirty bathrooms to fire risks: Public lands feel the pinch this summer
• Legislators in CO Aren’t Letting Go of Epstein, Push Trump To Release ‘Client List’ & More

awesome + uniting

• Bunches of fun! The Savannah Bananas sell out Coors Field this weekend
• Bo Nix struggles in Broncos preseason opener but Denver defeats 49ers 30-9
• Free Ride: New Program Will Cover E-Scooter, Bike Trips to Denver Transit Stations

awesome + controversy

• Denver’s ‘Eat Less Meat’ campaign sparks backlash from ag community, praise from activists
• These are the 200+ Colorado laws that go into effect on Wednesday
• South Park Melts ICE in Second Episode of New Season

awful + uniting

• Colorado businesses to feel impacts of Trump’s 50% tariffs on India
• Aurora police were missing Major Crimes reports dating back decades
• Meeker area besieged by major wildfires

awful + controversy

• Gov. Polis calls Colorado Legislature back to Denver for special session to rebalance budget
• In private group chat, GOP lawmakers made crude jokes about a Democratic colleague’s clothing
• Xcel Energy is considering raising rates in Colorado again; coalition protests proposal

awesome + uniting

• ‘The juice will be running down your face’: Rocky Ford melons are back
• AI-driven recycling plant in Commerce City expected to open in 2026
• Is 3D printing the future of building houses? This Colorado company hopes to cement the model.

awesome + controversy

• Colorado’s new 748 area code is here. Here’s a new song about it
• Anti-Trump demonstrators gather in Denver to ‘Rage Against the Regime’
• There’s at least six wolf pups in one of Colorado’s newest packs, state wildlife officials say

awful + uniting

• Health coverage for Colorado babies and toddlers could be disrupted by Trump administration policy
• Colorado Springs to pay $3.2 million to family of man who died after being tased by police
• Colorado dentist convicted of murder after lacing his wife’s protein shakes with poison, gets life sentence

awful + controversy

• Colorado lawmakers must cut $1 billion from state’s current budget because of GOP federal tax and spending bill
• Conservative podcaster ordered to pay over $90,000 for refusing to cooperate with defamation suit over his 2020 election fraud claims
• ‘We’re going to keep showing up’: Jax Gratton’s friends ask for independent task force to look into her death