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Mask mandates ending in Denver, Adams and Arapahoe counties as COVID cases fall
Denver and two major metro counties will drop their mask mandates for businesses and indoor public spaces later this week, a move Mayor Michael Hancock called a “pivot point in...
![“It is impossible to extinguish this fire [and] smoke and other gases from the fire emptying themselves through chimneys reaching to the surface in many places, make it look like a group of burning volcanoes,” mine inspector John McNeil, assessing the state of coal mines on Marshall Mesa, 1883. One hundred thirty-nine years after McNeil […] “It is impossible to extinguish this fire [and] smoke and other gases from the fire emptying themselves through chimneys reaching to the surface in many places, make it look like a group of burning volcanoes,” mine inspector John McNeil, assessing the state of coal mines on Marshall Mesa, 1883. One hundred thirty-nine years after McNeil […]](https://www.coloradodaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/marshall-mesa-trailhead-1.jpg?w=137)
Cause of Marshall fire could trace back to the still-smoldering origins of Boulder County’s mining history
“It is impossible to extinguish this fire [and] smoke and other gases from the fire emptying themselves through chimneys reaching to the surface in many places, make it look like...

Faces of the Front Range: Saving animals is his life’s work. He wished he could have done more during Marshall fire.
It's through animals that Dave Crawford takes inventory of his blackened and flattened neighborhood, pointing out in a 360-degree sweep which creatures survived and which perished in the Marshall fire.

Police identify 47-year-old man who killed 5 people, injured 2 others in Lakewood, Denver shooting spree
A gunman killed five people and injured two on a shooting spree Monday across Denver and Lakewood, police said. The gunman opened fire in at least six different locations across...

Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse to introduce gun bill related to Boulder King Soopers shooting
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse will introduce legislation in the House Thursday to prohibit people convicted of violent misdemeanors from purchasing a firearm for five years -- a measure the Lafayette...

COVID-19’s risk factors played hard on our psychology: How did we do?
As the nation and Colorado slowly emerge from the pandemic, the question arises: How well did we assess and manage the risk and threat of coronavirus over the last 13...

Colorado’s newly relaxed COVID-19 rules will help “very few restaurants,” industry says
Colorado's rollback of coronavirus restrictions this week is being pitched as a much needed salve for the state's beleaguered restaurant sector, but some industry players say the improvements are mostly...

Boulder shooting: Officer Eric Talley killed responding to mass shooting
Boulder Police Officer Eric Talley, who was killed while responding to the King Soopers shooting, was the father of seven, a woodworker and interested in using drones for policing

Douglas County to Gov. Polis: Cast off Colorado’s COVID-19 restrictions and open back up
The Douglas County's resolution comes as an increasing number of states -- including neighboring Wyoming and Custer County, Colorado -- have ended or are planning to end mask mandates and...

Restaurants in Colorado see easing of indoor dining coronavirus restrictions as “lifeline”
Hundreds of restaurants in Colorado, prohibited from offering indoor dining for nearly six weeks due to an autumn spike in COVID-19 cases, are ready to put a hopeful toe back...