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A handful of Colorado schools and child care facilities may need to retest their water for lead after Colorado’s Department of Public Health and Environment says it recalled some test results amid an investigation into data manipulation by at least two state chemists.Water testing at a state lab has been suspended since December, after chemists were found to have manipulated water quality data, resulting in lapses in protocols for testing for the presence of certain metals.The department wrote in a news release that an internal review found problems with a small number of tests of water samples completed by a…

Parker the Snow Dog, Loveland Ski Area’s beloved mascot and the honorary mayor of Georgetown, has died at age 8.Dustin Schaefer, Parker’s owner, confirmed the dog’s death to The Denver Post. Parker was killed in a car crash on Christmas Eve in Kremmling while he and Schaefer were on an ice fishing trip, Denver7 reported.Parker “brought so much joy to people and so many smiles to people’s faces,” Schaefer said.Parker, a Bernese Mountain Dog, became the honorary mayor of Georgetown when he was 4. According to Georgetown’s website, Parker worked as a therapy dog for Rocky Mountain Village Easterseals Camp,…

Rockies 12, Diamondbacks 8 Friday at Salt River Fields On the mound: Starter Bradley Blaylock gave Colorado two efficient scoreless innings in its Cactus League opener. The right-hander struck out two and walked one. … Anthony Molina was not nearly as sharp, leaving the ball over the plate and Arizona took advantage, belting the right-hander for three runs on four hits over one inning. At the plate: Center fielder Brenton Doyle, who’ll be the Rockies’ leadoff hitter this season, got off to a nice start, hitting a first-pitch fastball from right-hander Gerardo Gutierrez for a grand slam in the fourth…

By DAVID BAUDER, Associated PressThe Associated Press sued three Trump administration officials Friday over access to presidential events, citing freedom of speech in asking a federal judge to stop the blocking of its journalists.The lawsuit was filed Friday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., 10 days after the White House began restricting access to the news agency.The AP says its case is about an unconstitutional effort by the White House to control speech — in this case not changing its style from the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” as President Donald Trump did last month…

The following Colorado snow totals have been reported by the National Weather Service for Feb. 20-21, 2025 as of 10:50 a.m. Friday:Colorado road conditions: Delays on WB I-70 Friday morning because of heavy snow, stalled vehiclesAir Force Academy, CO — 5 inches at 7:45 a.m.Allenspark, CO — 2.8 inches at 7 a.m.Alma, CO — 1.3 inches at 9:33 a.m.Arapahoe Park, CO — 5.5 inches at 7:38 a.m.Arapahoe Peak, CO — 6.5 inches at 9:33 a.m.Arvada, CO — 7 inches at 7:13 a.m.Aspen Park, CO — 21 inches at 7:30 a.m.Aspen Springs, CO — 6 inches at 6:46 a.m.Aurora, CO –…

Jalen Pickett informed Jamal Murray of the updated Western Conference standings on the bench.Memphis had lost. The Nuggets were tied for second place for the moment. They were in the middle of a game. Their result against Charlotte would determine whether they ended Thursday night in second or third.“I was like, ‘We’ve gotta win this game.’ And everybody was locked in, and we won the game,” Murray said. “So I think it’s just those little reminders.”Murray went on to score 34 points as Denver began the stretch run of the regular season with a 129-115 win. One game after the…

By MARTHA BELLISLE and CLAIRE RUSH, Associated PressSEATTLE (AP) — The termination letters that ended the careers of thousands of U.S. Forest Service employees mean fewer people and less resources will be available to help prevent and fight wildfires, raising the specter of even more destructive blazes across the American West, fired workers and officials said.The Forest Service firings — on the heels of deadly blazes that ripped through Los Angeles last month — are part of a wave of federal worker layoffs, as President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting measures reverberate nationwide.Workers who maintained trails, removed combustible debris from forests, supported firefighters and…

That Aspen is Colorado’s ritziest housing market has long been a given and last year was no exception —  Pitkin County claimed nine out of the 10 most expensive home sales in the state. But a sale that broke the $100 million threshold for the first time in state history helped the town dominate the charts nationally.The second quarter of 2024 was especially notable, with half of the 10 most expensive home sales recorded in the country happening in Aspen, according to real estate brokerage Redfin. For the year, Colorado claimed three of the top 10 sales where a public…

Colorado lawmakers hope a scandal like the one that rocked the Colorado Bureau of Investigation last year — when officials discovered a DNA scientist had been manipulating testing for years — doesn’t happen again.But if it does, they want to force the agency — and all crime laboratories in Colorado — to be more transparent about the wrongdoing, with proactive, prompt notifications to prosecutors, defendants and victims about the potential errors.Four bipartisan Colorado lawmakers on Wednesday proposed the reforms in direct response to the CBI’s DNA scandal, and in response to the way the agency has handled the fallout since…

We already know that 2025 will be a huge concert year.While acts like Coldplay, Chris Stapleton, Post Malone, Metallica and The Lumineers will headline the major arenas and amphitheaters around Denver, smaller venues along the Front Range and in the high country are growing their nationally headlining roster at an astonishing rate — even if they will never match the calendar at Red Rocks Amphitheatre (more on that below).But there are also plenty of questions for music fans about the future. Here are 6 of those questions, along with some answers, for the 2025 concert season, which is just around…