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DALLAS — It would be hard not to compare and contrast the current state of the Colorado Avalanche to what the organization faced after Game 4 against the Dallas Stars a season ago. For all intents and purposes, the 2023-24 season, or at the very least Colorado’s championship aspirations, ended the day of Game 4 against the Stars. Valeri Nichushkin was suspended for at least six months just hours before puck drop. Devon Toews was sick and a late scratch. The Stars easily handled a shook Avs team to take a commanding 3-1 series lead before winning in six games. Fast…

A bicyclist was killed in a crash with a motorcycle rider southwest of Fort Collins on Sunday afternoon, according to the Colorado State Patrol. Troopers responded to the crash on County Road 38E near Milner Mountain Ranch Road at 1:21 p.m. when a 61-year-old man driving east on a Honda CMX1100 motorcycle passed another motorcycle but could not navigate a left-hand curve and drifted onto the right shoulder. The motorcycle driver then hit a cyclist, a 68-year-old man, who was going east on County Road 38E. The cyclist died at the scene, and the motorcycle rider was taken to the…

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will no longer pay Denver about $24 million in promised grant money to cover what the city already spent to shelter migrants, according to a letter sent this month. “The (Department of Homeland Security), consistent with President Trump’s direction, is focused on advancing the essential mission of enforcing immigration laws and securing the border,” says the letter, obtained by The Denver Post. The city received the notice April 1 but it wasn’t made public until it was cited during a City Council presentation by the city’s Department of Finance Monday afternoon. In response to a…

As a former vice president of the Denver Public Schools Board of Education, I am infinitely puzzled by recent behavior among current school board members. For months, these elected representatives aligned in their effort to overcome grievances that haunted the previous board — opaque decision-making, incoherent processes, and woefully inadequate community engagement. Progress was apparent in situations like the successful DPS bond initiative and also the recent school closure process, which was expectedly difficult but thoughtfully considered and well-executed. Unfortunately, old habits die hard, and this month, we saw patterns of the past re-emerge. On March 20, the school board…

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark slapped the court with both hands and started gesturing in her side’s direction after forcing a 5-second call near the end of Tuesday’s practice. It was only Day 2 of training camp, yet this is what Clark has yearned for these past seven months — going back to work with a new coach, a revamped roster and even higher expectations in her second WNBA season. After leading the Fever to their first playoff berth in eight years, winning the league’s Rookie of the Year Award, being named Associated Press 2024 Female Athlete of…

The Colorado House declined to pursue an override of Gov. Jared Polis’ veto of a social media regulation bill Monday, three days after the Senate voted to bypass the governor’s rejection and after a weekend of intensive lobbying. Rep. Andy Boesenecker, a Fort Collins Democrat, told House leadership early Monday afternoon that he wanted to table the vote on Senate Bill 86 until after the legislative session ends, effectively abandoning the override effort. A few moments later, he told colleagues on the floor that the “votes are not here in this chamber” to match the Senate’s override. The House needed…

Throw the phone book at him. At all of them. If the NFL doesn’t levy suspensions against the Atlanta Falcons and their loose-lipped defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich, then the fines for their role in the Shedeur Sanders incident had best be legendary. And don’t tell us to lighten up, Francis. Let’s run this scenario, and you tell me how it plays out at the end in 98% of corporate America. Say you work for big pharma. Your company’s discovered hair tonic that’ll turn Elmer Fudd into Chris Pine overnight. You’ve got the formula written out in a document on your…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and COLLEEN BARRY, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis’ successor, delaying the secret voting for two days so they can get to know one another better and find consensus on a candidate before they are sequestered in the Sistine Chapel. The cardinals set the date after arriving for the first day of informal meetings following Pope Francis’ funeral Saturday. In a chaotic scene, journalists shouted questions about the mood inside and whether there was unity. A reporter for a satirical Italian television program…

It’s not that Intermountain Health refuses to upgrade its Denver hospital and medical clinics so they produce less pollution. It’s the fact that the health system’s buildings are of different ages and sizes, and one of them — Saint Joseph Hospital — is open 24 hours a day. It’s a facility where lights and room temperature can be a life-and-death matter for some people. “As you can imagine, a lot of these buildings are really big and there’s multiple meters and they get their energy from multiple providers,” said Natan Simha, Intermountain Health’s senior energy engineer. When Denver and then…

At first glance, there does not seem to be much overlap between the art of Anna Kaye and Sarah McKenzie, two Colorado artists having solo exhibitions in Denver at this moment. Kaye’s “Finding Light,” at the Denver Botanic Gardens, showcases her scenes of the great outdoors in an era of alarming wildfires. She draws with charcoal, one of the most ancient artistic tools, monochromatic pictures of the natural, forested landscape as it burns. McKenzie’s views are almost entirely from the interior of institutional buildings. For “Displays of Power,” at David B. Smith Gallery, she paints with oil and acrylics, using…