Last summer, Xcel Energy offered to build Boulder a wind farm with the provision that customers in the city would start out paying more for electricity than the utility's other customers.
The 3- and 4-year-olds expected to make up the first graduating class at Boulder's new Wilderness Place Early Learning Center donned hard hats and grabbed hammers Wednesday to kick off remodeling of their future building.
Earlier this month, Longmont-based DigitalGlobe captured an image from one of its satellites of the behemoth cruise ship Costa Concordia, lolled on its side in the ocean after running aground off the coast of Giglio, Italy.
No matter how gingerly CU treats its four-legged subjects, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and other advocates keep watch over everything, complaint forms in hand. PETA late last week filed new federal protests over CU animal-handling incidents in the past two years.
Whether the city should revamp its approach to addressing climate change -- including whether to extend an expiring tax to pay for related programs -- is among the questions facing the Boulder City Council this week.
Twenty-six years ago, the United States came together amidst one of its greatest tragedies -- the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger just 73 seconds after liftoff.
The University of Colorado used money generated from last year's 9.3 percent tuition hike to reward many of its top administrators with raises, increasing Chancellor Phil DiStefano's salary by $49,000 to $389,000 and doling out tens of thousands of dollars in salary increases to other high-paid employees.
Judging by the reaction of some of its loyal customers this week, when the Broomfield Target store at 1660 W. Midway Blvd. locks its doors for good at 10 p.m. tonight, it will mark the end of an era in the city.
BOULDER -- In less than a week and a half, it'll be Colorado Republicans' turn to weigh in on their favorites in the field of GOP candidates still seeking the party's presidential nomination at that point.
A week after the Regional Transportation District put into place its reconfiguration of Route 228, commuters and transit advocates are waiting to see if ridership gets the hoped-for boost on the Broomfield-to-Louisville bus line.
BOULDER - Boulder County's Housing and Human Services Department has scheduled a Tuesday night town hall meeting to present the results of the first year of spending collections from the safety-net property tax that Boulder County voters authorized in 2010.
Dale Higashi, a firearms expert with the Colorado Bureau of Investigations, could not be sure the shell casings and live round recovered from the scene of the killing were fired by the same gun police found at Which Wich sandwich shop.
The muzzle of the gun that killed Todd Walker was between 5 and 6 feet away from him when it was fired, a Colorado Bureau of Investigation firearms expert testified Friday at the murder trial of Kevin McGregor.
Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney urged conservatives to back off aggressive anti-immigration policies as the Republican presidential candidates vied for Hispanic votes Friday, a day marked by heightened tensions entering the final weekend before Florida's primary.
President Barack Obama embraced the idea of federal action to restrain the rapidly increasing cost of higher education, giving a boost to a long-simmering policy idea that has gained steam amid growing frustration with rising tuition.
Scientists know Arctic sea ice is shrinking in the face of a warming climate. But it's not yet clear to researchers how deeper ocean temperature, sea surface temperature and air temperature interact to cause the ice's decline.
A campaign to provide health insurance to children is showing progress in Colorado, where two surveys show the number of uninsured kids is down to 8 to 10 percent.
