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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

We’re hiring a digital strategist at @denverpost.com. Do you have sharp news judgment and passion for audience engagement, SEO, newsletters, analytics, social media and local news? Details here on the role, salary range and how to apply:

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.

The Denver Art Museum is taking a genuine risk with its new solo show by painter Kent Monkman -- but not for the reasons you might think. Monkman wears both his queer and Indigenous identities on his sensational sleeves, Ray Rinaldi writes.

5 years ago, with few ads and not much upbeat entertainment content, we started running full-page, reader-submitted coloring book pages in the @denverpost.com features section and man, that was a fun distraction during a really un-fun time Submissions were 25% Blucifer, obv

Denver coffee roasters face price increases and supply chain disruptions from both global warming and President Trump's on-again, off-again tariffs. “There’s a manufacturer in China that we use, and that, like, doubled our retail bag price, which is kind of crazy," Huckleberry Roasters says.

Over the next 2-3 weeks, millions of birds will fly through Colorado skies as they migrate north for the summer -- and you can help them get there safely.

Hailed as a champion of the American dream, Ma Kaing came to America to escape violence. It found her in Denver. Her killer was sentenced to life in prison today. www.denverpost.com/2025/05/02/m...

I’ll wait an hour in line for a New Friends breakfast sandwich if that’s what it takes, idk

12 years ago I went to Nashville to shoot, report and run live coverage of George Jones’ funeral at the Grand Ole Opry for newspapers & TV stations in Beaumont + Houston A dream assignment for a 27yo music writer & photographer about to launch her first show on public radio. Rest easy, Possum

Jill Sobule, the Denver-born singer-songwriter whose witty, poignant writing first attracted widespread attention with “I Kissed a Girl,” died in a house fire Thursday. She was 66.

In @denverpost.com's weekly Adventurist newsletter, we include a Dog of the Week segment. In reality, it's a great excuse to get readers to email me photos and personality descriptions of their dogs. But this week I got an 11-PAGE BOOK one man wrote about his dog, Gus V ❤️

“If you want to call it a trainwreck, you can." Colorado research into weather forecasting, drought and wildfires is at risk of grinding to a halt if planned budget cuts by President Trump’s administration come to fruition and eliminate funding crucial to the Colorado labs’ existence.

NEW: Dr. Warren Hern has closed the Boulder Abortion Clinic after 50 years. It was one of the relatively few options for third-trimester abortions, and has been a longtime target of anti-abortion demonstrators and violent threats

Federal judge AGAIN orders a Colorado school district to put 19 removed books — including “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini and Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” — back on library shelves // Story by @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social

Under the Kelly Loving Act, the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act — which includes gender identity as a protected class — would add intentionally misgendering transgender people or deadnaming them to the discriminatory acts covered by the law in public accommodations // by @sethklamann.bsky.social

Neither the University of Colorado nor Colorado State has identified the international students who lost their visas, said what countries they are from, or revealed whether federal officials provided any explanation // Story by @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social

CO school district rejects donation of “banned” books to be returned to library shelves -- except for 1. The district determined "#Pride: Championing LGBTQ Rights" was inappropriate for school libraries but would be kept by the superintendent www.denverpost.com/2025/04/02/e... via @denverpost.com

Big news in Colorado craft beer: Great Divide Brewing Co. has changed hands for the first time in its 31-year history. The founder says it's a good thing for both the beer and drinkers. www.denverpost.com/2025/04/01/g...

Saturday’s not Saturday until I line up in a parking lot off East Colfax to buy chocolate milk and Greek yogurt from the sweetest dogs in the mountain west #sageandjazz #fivefreedoms