This year’s race transforms the city into a rolling celebration, with lion dancers, drag queens, kayakers, live music, and, of course, thousands of runners moving through Denver’s most iconic ...
The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. The night before, Jessica and I had pitched our tent on a soft sandbar beside a spring-fed creek, deep within ...
The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. In April 2025, Adam Miller was in Papua New Guinea, camping among villagers in the Oro Province near Tufi, a ...
Next thing you know, you’ve loaded four more legs to the car and you’re stopping for a pup cup on the way to the hill. Trust us, we know how guilt-inducing those doe eyes are, but is it really safe to ...
The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. As far as wildlife sightings go, a septuagenarian climbing a ladder is the last thing you’d expect to see in ...
More terminally ill Coloradans than ever are turning to Denver Health’s Medical Aid in Dying clinic. We spent the summer witnessing the quiet decisions and final moments of those who chose when—and ...
Michelle Vanek disappeared on Mt. of the Holy Cross in 2005, setting off the largest search for a missing hiker in state history. The trail went cold—until an all-women team reopened the case. Vail ...
In the past decade, the rate of postpartum mood disorders has doubled nationwide. In Colorado, a village of nonprofits, hospitals, and researchers are working to change that. Over the next few weeks, ...
In September, against a backdrop of razor wire and imposing concrete walls rising from Colorado’s remote Eastern Plains, incarcerated men inside Sterling Correctional Facility took part in an ice ...
The summer 2020 attack had been well-documented. Alamosa County authorities photographed the severe bruises across Welch’s arms, legs, and chest, and she recounted the assault in an eight-page, single ...
A fatal race thrust Tracee Metcalfe into a surprising position: the closest to becoming the first American woman to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks. But to claim the record, she’d have to ...
This winter, explore Colorado’s backcountry with a little machine-powered help. Here, our guide to some of the best spots to snowmobile in the state. Last season, Steamboat Ski Resort added 650 acres ...