Tom Morello leads the crowd in ‘Killing in the Name’ at First Ave 🎸🎶 🎥: @chrisrstrib.bsky.social

Bruce Springsteen and Tom Morello play ‘Ghost of Tom Joad’ together at First Avenue in Minneapolis 🎸 🎥: Jon Bream

“Even kids can tell this is wrong,” said Levi Caufman, 17, a student from Denver's Northfield High, referring to the stepped-up ICE tactics in Minneapolis

"To our fellow Coloradans: If this can happen in Minneapolis, Chicago and Portland, it can happen in Denver, Durango and the Western Slope." — @denverpost.com op/ed from a former Homeland Security assistant secretary and a special agent

At least a dozen restaurants and coffee shops across metro Denver will close for service on Friday, Jan. 30, joining businesses in a nationwide general strike and ICE Out protest decrying the tactics of immigration and border agents in Minneapolis this month.

NEW: Great American Beer Festival is leaving Colorado Convention Center, moving outdoors, dropping prices for 2026

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal ICE memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches.

ICE agents ate lunch at a family-owned Mexican restaurant in Minnesota -- then came back several hours later and detained three people who work there, per @startribune.com

Breaking: President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act allowing him to deploy troops as protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement persist in Minneapolis.

As of 2:30 p.m., the strongest winds recorded in Colorado included a 96 mph gust at the NCAR Mesa Lab southwest of Boulder, 93 mph at an Arvada weather station on Colorado 93 and 87 mph at the Boulder airport. #cowx

As many as 500,000 customers along the Front Range could lose power, Xcel said. Here’s what you need to know.

What exactly can Denver police drones see? Watch this series of videos taken by the Denver Police Department’s Skydio drones while responding to 911 calls — footage obtained by The Denver Post through an open records request.

🧵Denver PD began testing drones as first responders in October after signing contracts w/ Skydio and Flock, saying they'll improve public safety. But these "flying cops" raise concerns for privacy advocates, council members and police oversight board, @denverpost.com's Shelly Bradbury reports

This new East Colfax restaurant’s Szechuan, Cantonese and American-Chinese food is popular for a reason trib.al/2agQvNZ

Years-long effort to improve safety on a crash-prone stretch of Alameda Avenue in Denver abruptly scaled back by the city after opposition from the family of Colorado's richest resident, conservative billionaire Phil Anschutz

New: Unpublished work by Andrea Gibson is part of new Colorado anthology supporting poet laureate program www.denverpost.com/2025/12/04/c... via @denverpost.com

Welcome to a snow day 🌨# Here's everything you need to know: ❄# #cowx forecast: trib.al/l491dAZ ❄# DIA delays: trib.al/NKqJsaA ❄# School delays: trib.al/0p9j1vk ❄# Snow totals: trib.al/3gp2ieN ❄# Snow driving refresher: trib.al/Q6kWxMq

Our treat yourself tradition when not hosting or traveling: Thanksgiving Eve cocktails and caviar service at Run for the Roses and a festive walk around downtown. RFTR’s holiday pop-up Good Tidings opens that night, too

The National Labor Relations Board has found Starbucks illegally fired workers in response to organizing, closed stores because of union votes and engaged in widespread unfair labor practices designed to quash workers’ efforts. www.denverpost.com/2025/11/23/s...

New: President Trump on Thursday accused half a dozen Democratic lawmakers, including Colorado's Rep. Jason Crow, of sedition “punishable by DEATH” after the lawmakers called on U.S. military members to uphold the Constitution and defy “illegal orders.”

Hong Kong Station 3 is open at E. Colfax & Gaylord and I need everyone to know how chill and fantastic it is. Brighter than the surface of the sun in there but my new go-to for Szechuan/Cantonese/American-Chinese takeout L-r Szechuan-style spicy bone-in chicken, salt & pepper tofu, scallion pancake

New: Sanitas Brewing Co. is shutting down after 12 years due to “rising costs and lower sales of craft beer." All three of Sanitas' locations in Boulder, Englewood and Lafayette will close in December, according to a statement.

New: Federal officials formally requested that former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters be transferred to federal custody, the latest in a monthslong effort by the Trump administration to free the election conspiracy theorist from a state prison cell.

BREAKING: A jury found former Grateful Dead bar owner and jam-band scene fixture #JayBianchi guilty on five counts of sexual assault related to three incidents -- the most serious of his 10 total charges. For @denverpost.com (paywall article)

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...

Join us in a bit of joy. We've heard from readers that the news cycle is scary, depressing, overwhelming. Our @denverpost.com coverage often includes successes, joy or community, but those stories don’t always stand out. So, we created a newsletter to highlight them. Sign up for Bluebird Day:

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