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On a sunny day in late September, Todd Olander was out in the fields of a 90-acre farm in Berthoud planting rows of barley. Typically, Olander would let the soil rest through the winter months, but in recent years he’s begun experimenting…

HOUSTON — The apartment complex where Teresa Eddins now lives is so quiet that “you can hear a pin drop” at night, she says — a stark contrast to the constant noise she withstood while living beneath a bridge two years ago. She was one of…

“What’s a cult? People not believing what’s mainstream, which is God is a man and you find him in a church that wants money?” That’s a quote from a member of an organization called Love Has Won in a new HBO docu-series, entitled “Love Has…

Fodor’s influential “No List” discouraged travelers from visiting the American West in 2023, citing the increasingly dry Colorado River and the millions of residents who depend on its water. But for 2024, the company’s travel experts have…

DURANGO — A little more than a year before the retail sporting goods behemoth comes to town, REI Co-op’s impending arrival has raised concerns, especially among those who wonder what impact its 20,000-square-foot store will have on…

After a half-decade struggle by Thornton to claim thousands of acre-feet of water a year from the Cache La Poudre River near Fort Collins, the north Denver suburb is starting over with a new water pipe route. As Thornton filed its latest…

Thoa Nguyen didn’t get her hopes up when she first heard from a casting agent about participating in Food Network’s “Holiday Baking Championship.” The owner of Aurora’s popular Banh & Butter Bakery Cafe, at 9935 E. Colfax Ave., had…

Workers in unincorporated Boulder County will earn at least $25 per hour by 2030 under a new minimum wage ordinance approved by the Board of County Commissioners this week. The minimum wage in unincorporated Boulder County will increase to…

Few things sound more relaxing than a toke of marijuana and a massage. Lucky for Denverites, they’ll be able to find both in one place next year when Pure Elevations Spa & Garden opens in the Baker neighborhood. The idea for a…

All eyes have been on Colorado this college football season — including the eyes behind these sunglasses — as Deion Sanders, better known as Coach Prime, has taken the University of Colorado Buffaloes team to a 3-2 record, so far, with the…