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One Year After Its Reopening, Boulder Valley Velodrome Pedals Forward
As one of the country’s only Olympic-size, banked-oval cycling racetracks, the Boulder Valley Velodrome (BVV) should have cemented the Front Range’s status as a cycling destination in 2013, when it was slated to host its first riders. Instead, the south Erie venue suffered a string of setbacks, including a windstorm and flood that all but destroyed the place before construction was finished. Then, just three years after the track finally opened in 2015, the owners put the venue up for sale. After several buyers fell through, the velodrome closed for the season in fall 2019 and never reopened because of the pandemic. Boards rotted, paint flaked, and by 2023, the BVV looked more like an abandoned amusement park ride than a world-class sports venue.
Now's the time to sign up for your county's emergency alerts
COLORADO, USA — Four fires burning in the Front Range have prompted evacuations, and emergency managers using different approaches to alert people of those evacuations. The Alexander Mountain Fire in Larimer County, the Stone Creek and Lake Shore fires in Boulder County and the Quarry Fire in Jefferson County continue to burn throughout Colorado as the state faces a stretch of dry and hot conditions.
Live updates: 3 wildfires burning in the foothills north and west of Denver
Fire crews are spread across the Front Range as hot, dry weather is fueling three wildfires Wednesday in the foothills, forcing thousands of people from their homes. One person has died in the fire near Lyons, according to the Boulder County sheriff. The Alexander Mountain fire started Monday morning west...
Colorado School of Mines football tabbed as RMAC preseason favorite | Colorado Sunshine
Colorado School of Mines claimed the top spot in the 2024 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference football preseason coaches’ poll Wednesday. The Orediggers led the way with seven first-place votes and 79 total points after a dominant 2023 campaign that saw the team return to the NCAA Division II championship game.
Republic or democracy? Colorado Republicans are confused.
Conservatives often insist that the United States is “a republic, not a democracy.” It’s actually both, and many Americans use the terms interchangeably. But what’s irrefutably true is that democracy — rule by the people — was there from the beginning, whatever republican systems accompanied and shaped it. It’s also true that democratic values have […]
Spirit Halloween in Colorado: Here's where the stores are this year
COLORADO, USA — It's the most spooky time of the year. Spirit Halloween has announced the locations of 33 stores in Colorado that will sell its costumes, decorations and accessories this autumn. Colorado Springs leads the state with four Spirit Halloween store locations in 2024. Aurora and Denver each...
Someone bought a lotto ticket worth nearly $6 million in Colorado this week
SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colo. (KKTV) - If you purchased a lottery ticket in Snowmass recently, you may have won nearly $6 million!. The Colorado Lottery is reporting a winning $5,727,684 million Colorado Lotto+ ticket was sold Wednesday night at the Sundance Drug & Liquor in Snowmass Village. If they take the cash option, that will be $2,061,966.
Boebert challenger Trisha Calvarese fights against the odds in Colorado’s 4th District
When Lauren Boebert won the Republican U.S. House primary election in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District in June, news outlets nationwide declared that her efforts to remain in Washington D.C. for another term — which included moving across the state, fending off a scandal at a Colorado theater and courting a different set of constituents — […]
Colorado Day: Honoring the 38th State’s Admission and Heritage
Colorado Day is August 1, observing the day President Ulysses S. Grant signed a proclamation admitting Colorado as the 38th state in the union in 1876. When Salida was incorporated on October 4, 1880, the state was just four years old, and like the rest of the state, it was part of the “Wild West” we see in the old black-and-white movies of the 1940s and ’50s. Interestingly enough, a Coloradan, Marquerite Roberts, wrote several of those westerns, one being “True Grit” which won an Oscar for John Wayne.
Colorado Arts Spotlight: Things to know and do around the state Aug. 2-4
It's going to be another hot weekend. But if you're willing to slather on the sunscreen and brave the overheated elements, Colorado has a lot of open air entertainment on offer. And for those who want to ensure their fun comes with a healthy dose of air conditioning, theaters around the state have plenty of new shows opening up too.
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