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Harold Henthorn's First Wife, Lynn Henthorn, Didn't Die by Accident, Sheriff...

Last year, we told you about the charging of Harold Henthorn in the death of his second wife, Dr. Toni Henthorn, who perished after a fall in Rocky Mountain National Park, as well as dark suspi...

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The Ten Most-Expensive Denver Neighborhoods to Rent a Two-Bedroom Apartment

Last week, we shared data from ApartmentList.com showing that Denver rent prices are increasing 3.4 times faster than the national average. But the site has shared plenty of other information a...

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Transgender Locker Room Bill First of Many Legislative Attacks on LGBTQ...

Each session of the Colorado legislature spawns controversial bills -- like, for instance, Representative Timothy Dore's call for grants to Colorado counties to offset the impact of legal pot w...

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Rapist Tony Dotson Guilty in Murder-For-Hire Bid Against Victim...and Sister...

Over the past eight years or so, Tony Dotson has been in the public eye for vastly different reasons: first as the heartsick sibling whose sister had vanished without a trace, then as a man acc...

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Marijuana: William Breathes Guides You Through New Pot Edibles Rules

Edibles had a rough ride in Colorado last year. With deaths blamed on pot food, an increase in emergency-room visits and a very public freakout by Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, edibles ca...

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Death on Java Court Being Investigated as a Homicide (30)

What began as a welfare check at a residence on Java Court has now become a homicide inquiry. Thus far, however, the Denver Police Department is keeping the vast majority of details hush-hush. ...

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Inside the Crazy Caribou Ranch Auction

Denver blog posts don't require bidding. At our Backbeat blog, Adam Perry offers behind-the-scenes scoop on the insane auction for memorabilia from Caribou Ranch, where Michael Jackson and othe...

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Reader: Jenny McCarthy's Vaccines-Cause-Autism Scare Led to Measles Outbreak

Our post revealing that Colorado is dead last among states when it comes to the number of kindergartners getting inoculated against measles rapidly turned into a platform for debate about falli...

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Marijuana Dispensary Review: High Street Growers in Denver

High Street Growers was one of the dozen or so dispensaries forced out of Fort Collins in 2012, when the town passed a ban on medical marijuana businesses. Unlike a lot of its competitors, High ...

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Larissa Tiffany-Schiess's Body Found in Burning Home, Death Ruled a Homicide

After members of the Fountain Fire Department responded to a reported blaze in a suburban neighborhood early Wednesday morning, they found the body of a young woman inside. The victim has now b...

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Sex Times by State -- and Colorado's Premature Finish

When you and your partner are having sex, can you time it with an hourglass? Or does it make more sense to use a stopwatch? The Spreadsheets App, which, according to Nerve.com, employs "your ph...

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20 More Visit Denver Pics So Gorgeous They'll Make Even More People Want to...

It's been about six months or so since we shared a collection of Visit Denver photos so gorgeous they were capable of making even more people move here. Since then, the tourist agency has kept ...

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Marijuana: William Breathes Checks Out Ten Popular Pot-Related Phone Apps

There are hundreds of pot-related smartphone apps, but few are really worth the time, effort or (often) money that it takes to install them. I recently downloaded ten of the top canna-apps in i...

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Shoe-Bomber Richard Reid: God Wanted Me to Fail, But I Still Have Regrets

Richard Reid is in a Colorado supermax facility for an attempted crime that goes way beyond mere schmuckiness: In 2001, he tried to blow up an American airliner occupied by 197 passengers using...

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Aurora Theater Shooting Survivor Carli Richards Sells Second Birdshot Pellet

Back in January, we told you that Aurora theater shooting survivor Carli Richards had sold one of the birdshot pellets that hit her for $1,650. Now, Richards has sold a second pellet, the last ...

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Dale Strehling's Disappearance and the Need to Track People Who Vanish on...

The size and scope of federal land holdings in this country -- including national parks, monuments and more -- is so vast that people can venture into them and literally disappear. Note the cas...

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Video: Mikala Nealy Is Keeping the Black Cowboy Tradition Alive

February is Black History Month, but the tradition of the black cowboy -- a figure that's gotten short shrift in much of our film and literature about the West -- is very much alive. For proof,...

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Denver's Ten Best Chinese Restaurants

Denver blog posts are cuisine fiends. Our Cafe Society blog counts down the ten best Chinese restaurants in Denver. Colorado Peak Politics thinks Senator Cory Gardner is a funny guy. Chalkbea...

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Reader: Smoking Pot in Public Is Getting Out of Control

Our recent post about the back-and-forths between marijuana advocates and pot haters over crime statistics was subsequently supplemented by an online conversation that went into many different a...

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Cannabis Time Capsule, 1895: Maltos-Cannabis a Part of a Healthy Swedish Diet?

Our Cannabis Time Capsule excavations first uncovered Maltos-Cannabis marijuana-infused Swedish medicinal treats a few years back, in an 1897 advertisement in the Svensk Amerkanska, a Denver pape...

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