The painting in question depicted Sen. Michael Bennet as supporting genocide, and Sen. John Hickenlooper with dollar signs over his eyes. The artist, Madalyn Drewno, says it's intended to spur discussion and accountability. Is it censorship? For @denverpost.com

NEW - The Trump admin has disbanded its federal cultural property investigations team and reassigned the agents to immigration enforcement, delivering a blow to one of the world’s leaders in heritage protection, according to multiple ppl familiar with the changes. www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...

It's Election Day, and if you're still contemplating your ballot, here's the @denverpost.com's 2025 voter guide to break it all down

ICE agents mistakenly identified a Durango father when they pulled him over this week, a senior enforcement official testified in court today, but still arrested the man and his 2 kids in an incident that quickly sparked protests in the Colorado mountain town // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social

This was one of those stories you weep through writing. Your local food bank is desperate for donations right now. I know it feels big and hopeless sometimes, but you can make a difference.

For the past few months, I've been digging into the tenuous relationship between Telluride and the enigmatic owner of the town's famed ski resort. Everybody in town has a Chuck Horning story. Here's why locals say it's time for him to go. www.denverpost.com/2025/10/30/t...

At Aurora’s ICE detention center, person after person either requests to be removed from the U.S. or accepts a deportation. With bail serially denied to detainees, voluntary departures have surged in the only immigration court in the US with no dedicated judge: www.denverpost.com/2025/10/22/i...

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This week, we launched a new @denverpost.com newsletter that answers the age-old question: “Where’s all the good news?” Thanks to @tyninfries.bsky.social’s creative direction, Bluebird Day highlights Colorado news that's happy, heartwarming or just downright joyful to read. Sign up here:

Bon Appetit on the best restaurant dish I’ve ever had in Denver — we ordered it twice our first time at Mezcaleria Alma and came dangerously close to ordering a third for dessert

New: A popular Denver brewery known as a hub for the Latino community closed suddenly this week after city officials seized the property’s assets due to unpaid back taxes.

Such fond memories at Mountain Man Outdoor Store and Tadasana Mountain Yoga. The folks at Mountain Man put me on to so many amazing local trails. Sad day for Nederland

“We’re getting to a place where school shooter-ism is actually developing momentum of its own," an extremism researcher says. "Previously, school shootings were a model for people who were lonely, isolated and suicidal. Now it’s almost its own ideology.” // Story by @jessicaseaman.bsky.social

University of Colorado Boulder police shut down student groups’ screening of Palestinian film www.denverpost.com/2025/09/26/c... via @denverpost.com

President Trump said Thursday that he will put import taxes of 100% on pharmaceutical drugs, 50% on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, 30% on upholstered furniture and 25% on heavy trucks starting on Oct. 1.

Here are six local cannabis consumption spaces in Denver where you don’t need to be a VIP to enter the “green” room. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/25/d...

It’s not just that Huntington’s has no cure; there hasn’t even been a viable treatment for the neurodegenerative disease at all — until now

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Social media accounts that appear to belong to the Evergreen shooter show an affinity for mass shooters, particularly the Columbine shooters, whose clothing he copied. He also re-shared Nazi and antisemitic videos and shared an image of a revolver to Twitter: www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

Sheriff's officials say 16-year-old Colorado school shooter was “radicalized through an extremist network” before the attack, but didn't offer details. Two students remained in critical condition in Denver-area hospitals this morning. // Story by @laurenpenington.bsky.social and Shelly Bradbury

For two years, Carol Stires, 64, has been caring for an abandoned wild horse that's living on a sliver of public land on Colorado's Arkansas River, between Florence and Penrose. “I never expected to make friends with a wild horse,” she tells @denverpost.com's Elise Schmelzer

Denver’s best fly-fishing shop recognizes that women do, indeed, fish, too trib.al/pYaK8wa

Scalpers Jack Up Price Of Colorado Rockies Ticket To $11 https://theonion.com/scalpers-jack-up-price-of-colorado-rockies-ticket-to-11/

Authorities believe Callum Heskett stabbed himself in the abdomen with his own pocket knife. Heskett, who told investigators he previously was a Lafayette police officer, claimed a man took his pocket knife and stabbed him after saying something to the effect of “(Expletive) the police."

A schism at a Denver Catholic church is a microcosm of issues within the local archdiocese, parishioners told the Post. Hundreds of churchgoers at Most Precious Blood are petitioning their priest, alleging a "loss of psychological safety" www.denverpost.com/2025/08/21/m... via @denverpost.com

Forever sharing my love of this intimate, 500-person Denver music venue with projection-mapped visuals and direct-sale tickets with only a $6.75 fee (!)

DoBetterDNVR bills itself as a “citizen journalist" but critics say it relies on shock and conspiracy to build its platform on Instagram and X. The account's anonymity, lack of transparency and absence of public ethical standards undermine its credibility, one expert said.

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Reading @tineywristwatch.bsky.social’s work each day is like watching a butterfly land on a sunflower: you just feel a little more glad to be alive than you were 10 minutes ago

KGNU, Boulder’s flagship public radio station for more than 40 years, expects to lose 15.5% of its operating budget after Congressional Republicans eliminated federal funding for public media for the next two years // Story by @bamesjurky.bsky.social

First reported by the Washington Post this morning, Jeff Small told clerks he was working on behalf of Stephen Miller. Though no clerk agreed to grant access to the machines, Small told some that their colleagues had already done so. Unauthorized access to voting systems is a felony.

A former Trump appointee with Colorado ties called at least 10 Republican county clerks here last week seeking access to secure voting machines on behalf of the White House and the Department of Justice. The request alarmed the clerks, all of whom rejected it. www.denverpost.com/2025/07/16/c...

"In the end, I want my heart to be covered in stretch marks." Andrea Gibson — Colorado state poet laureate, queer activist and spoken-word artist — dies at 49 www.denverpost.com/2025/07/14/a... via @denverpost.com

Hearst to purchase Dallas Morning News 👀 www.houstonchronicle.com/business/art...

These MSU Denver archaeology students are digging up artifacts at the site of bygone brothels to document 19th century sex work I think it’s important you know I tried to get “discovering booty” in the headline. Reach for the stars, kids. www.denverpost.com/2025/06/20/m... via @denverpost.com

“My uncle was someone who walked in excellence,” Grammy-winning jazz singer Dianne Reeves says. “He was about being the best at what he did and I witnessed that. Staying at his house, 4 in the morning before the birds started chirping, he would be practicing.” // Obit by @katielang.bsky.social

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BREAKING: Boulder police officers were responding to an attack reported on the Pearl Street Mall on Sunday afternoon near the Boulder County Courthouse, according to the department. Several victims were reportedly injured in the attack

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A woman died in a Denver public housing building in 2023 after her apartment soared to 127 degrees. She wasn't the only one. www.denverpost.com/2025/05/29/d...

Bar Max is an underrated Denver cocktail bar that wears its values on its sleeve, @bybethrankin.bsky.social writes. The menu denotes spirits made in Colorado or by women-, POC- or LGBTQIA-owned businesses and offers discounts for educators, health care workers, artists and abortion-care workers.

The boom in e-book popularity is accompanied by a rise in cost, forcing some Colorado libraries to limit who can access their highly sought-after digital collections. https://trib.al/M6xk8cm

One day after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill restricting gender-affirming care, Gov. Jared Polis today signed into law legislation that requires health insurance plans in Colorado to cover the treatment // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social

How bad are the 2025 Colorado Rockies? Enter: the Rockies Futility Tracker Each Friday, The Denver Post provides an update on the Rockies’ path to becoming the worst MLB team in the modern era.

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Colorado law now explicitly protects transgender people from being “deadnamed” or misgendered in certain places under legislation signed into law Friday by Gov. Jared Polis. The new law is named for Kelly Loving, a trans woman who died in the 2022 mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs.

In this story you'll find death threats, lions & tigers & bears, odors, eagles abducting dogs & housing development. Lions roaring at 2 a.m. & beer cans in the bear exhibit: Wild Animal Sanctuary frets over housing development next door www.denverpost.com/2025/05/16/c... via @denverpost.com

Adriana Smith, a pregnant 30-year-old mother and nurse, was declared brain-dead in February but has been kept on life support for 3 months because doctors say they are not allowed to remove the devices keeping her breathing due to Georgia’s strict anti-abortion law.

Pilots flying into Denver International Airport on Monday couldn’t communicate with air traffic controllers for about six minutes after multiple radio transmitters failed, according to reporting from Denver7.

INVESTIGATION: 7-year-old Isaiah Stark died from ingesting too much sodium, the coroner found, likely due to drinking olive brine. The parents had used olives and olive brine as a form of punishment, a mandatory reporter later told a child abuse hotline.