Here are Colorado’s top-performing schools on 2025 CMAS tests

The Dever Post (Arapahoe County) 8/21 9:00A Jessica Seaman

Students at Polaris Elementary in Denver once again earned the highest math and literacy scores on the statewide Colorado Measures of Academic Success exam, according to data released by the state Department of Education on Thursday. CMAS exams...

Colorado lawmakers return to Capitol to fix budget as they tangle over Trump tax bill — and...

The Dever Post (Politics) 8/21 2:00A Seth Klamann, Nick Coltrain

The Colorado Capitol will return to a bustle Thursday as lawmakers flock back months early for a special session on the budget that no one wanted. The bills they pass in the coming days could...

Mexican concept Ash and Agave to open in Denver at former California Pizza Kitchen location

The Denver Post (Business) 8/18 11:00A Max Scheinblum

Sean Huggard is going south of the border. The owner of Blue Island Oyster Bar and Seafood will open the Mexican concept Ash and Agave at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center later this year or early next. Huggard signed a 10-year lease for the 4,800...

Improving Investor Behavior: The bell-bottom billionaires

The Denver Post (Top Stories) 8/17 2:00A Steve Booren

Take a trip with me back to 1979. You’re standing in line at a gas station, waiting your turn to purchase fuel at three times its cost from a few short months ago. The oil embargo, coupled with...

Tufanua Ionatana Umu-Cais, Colorado’s top recruit in Class of 2026, is centerpiece of another Cherry...

The Denver Post (Top Stories) 8/17 1:45A Kyle Newman

Tufanua Ionatana Umu-Cais had Pee Wee offensive linemen shaking in their cleats. An enormous and physical athlete in his middle school days, Cherry Creek s star defensive tackle demanded everyone s...

Inside Broncos LT Garett Bolles’ work in Colorado juvenile detention system: ‘My life has done a...

The Denver Post (Top Stories) 8/17 1:45A Luca Evans

In early January, the wheels of the Broncos plane touched down in Denver, and Garett Bolles hopes of a dream run were left frozen back in Buffalo. He d known disappointment for many years. Never quite...

Cherry Creek Schools students head back to class

CBS Denver (News) 8/11 2:54A CBS Colorado

Cherry Creek Schools students head back to class this week.

Colorado district no longer recognizing valedictorians, Cherry Creek Schools calls it inconsistent...

CBS Denver (News) 8/8 2:36A Ashley Portillo

Students in Cherry Creek Schools head back to class on Monday, but beginning with the graduating class of 2026, the district will no longer recognize valedictorians and students won't be given the title. The district says it's an outdated and...

Cherry Creek Schools no longer recognizing valedictorians

CBS Denver (News) 8/8 2:32A CBS Colorado

Students in Cherry Creek Schools head back to class on Monday, but beginning with the graduating class of 2026, the district will no longer recognize valedictorians and students won't be given the title.

SweatHouz sauna and cold plunge expanding with new location at 38th and Tennyson

The Denver Post (Business) 8/5 2:00A Matthew Geiger

Frank Campise isn’t sweating about his retail space on Tennyson. The Chicago apartment developer and investor recently leased out the entirety of his 2,700-square-foot retail space at his new building on the corner of 38th Avenue and Tennyson...

Waste Management threatened with eviction from Denver recycling facility

The Denver Post (Business) 7/30 2:00A Justin Wingerter

While it waits for a new $100 million sorting facility to be built in Aurora, Waste Management claims it is being wrongfully evicted from its current Denver recycling facility. The national trash company has leased several buildings at 3600 E....

Denver Public Safety head named new Colorado Bureau of Investigation director

The Denver Post (Top Stories) 7/25 6:25A Jessica Seaman

Denver Public Safety Director Armando Saldate III has been named the new director of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation , according to the state’s Department of Public Safety . Both agencies announced Friday that Saldate is leaving the Denver...

Colorado families, community advocates rally for legislative change amid plans to dismiss kidnapping...

CBS Denver (News) 7/24 8:05A Gabriela Vidal

Frustrated community leaders, lawmakers and families voiced their concerns with state legislation and mental health resources in the wake of the 18th Judicial District Attorney's Office's plans to...

Body of missing toddler found in Silverthorne

The Denver Post (Top Stories) 7/23 7:38A Lauren Penington

A missing toddler was found dead Tuesday evening in Silverthorne, city officials said. The toddler, a 1 1/2-year-old boy, was reported missing just after 3:45 p.m. Tuesday in the Willow Grove Open Space, Silverthorne officials said in a news...

Woman killed in southern Colorado boating accident

The Denver Post (Crime) 7/20 5:31A Lauren Penington

A 43-year-old woman died Saturday afternoon in a boating accident at Lake Pueblo State Park, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife. The accident involved a powered watercraft and contact with the engine propeller near Denver Cove at about 4...