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Sean Payton made it clear Monday: The Broncos need to be more assertive in running the football. He saw the same numbers as everybody else: 14 passes and three runs on Denver’s first 17 snaps against Tennessee. By the end, 43 drop-backs for quarterback Bo Nix. Payton suggested the discrepancies, which closed some with a bruising, 95-rush-yard fourth quarter, were not a matter of being pass-happy but instead a matter of letting Tennessee’s defense too often set the terms. “I have to be better there,” he said. “And it’s one of those day-afters where you look back and say, ‘All right,…

Hunter Goodman continues to be a shining beacon in the Rockies’ otherwise dreary season. The 25-year-old catcher was named the National League player of the week on Monday after slashing .476/.500/1.000 with 10 hits, three home runs and 10 runs batted in over five games last week. He led the NL in homers and RBIs during that span. On the season, the all-star is slashing .284/.330/.541 with 29 home runs — the most by a catcher in franchise history — and a team-leading 3.2 WAR. Rockies All-Star Hunter Goodman: A day in the life of a big-league catcher Goodman is…

Colorado’s Division of Youth Services last month removed all youth from its Lookout Mountain detention center amid what advocates say were deteriorating safety conditions. All 36 young people at Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center in Golden were temporarily transferred to other state-run facilities, DYS interim director Dave Lee told juvenile justice stakeholders in an Aug. 28 memo reviewed by The Denver Post. Many of the staff members there have also been temporarily relocated to support youth at their new centers. Lee did not discuss the reasoning for the sudden move, only saying that this “will allow DYS to use available…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has reached a deal worth about $17 billion with Englewood-based EchoStar for spectrum licenses that it will use to beef up its Starlink satellite network. The deal for EchoStar’s AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses includes up to $8.5 billion in cash and up to $8.5 billion in SpaceX stock. SpaceX will make approximately $2 billion in cash interest payments on EchoStar debt through November 2027. SpaceX and EchoStar will enter into a long-term commercial agreement, which will allow EchoStar’s Boost Mobile subscribers to access SpaceX’s next-generation Starlink Direct to Cell service. Shares of EchoStar surged 19% before…

The fall art scene is especially promising in 2025. There is a potential blockbuster on the horizon, thanks to the Denver Art Museum’s upcoming retrospective of Impressionist icon Camille Pissarro. There’s also the welcome return to Colorado of contemporary art pioneer Roni Horn, who will produce a solo show at the MCA Denver. But the real news just might be the appearance of two new venues that will add a bit of personality on the edges of town: the opening of Black Cube Headquarters in Englewood, and the reopening of the Museum of Outdoor Arts in Greenwood Village. Here are…

They came with cameras and they left in handcuffs. On Labor Day weekend two years ago, three self-proclaimed “First Amendment auditors” — people who purposely test their constitutional protections, often by filming police officers and other public officials — arrived in downtown Colorado Springs as bars let out. The trio zeroed in on a handful of officers who were speaking with other people in a parking lot about a fight. The auditors stood a few feet from the officers and filmed them. Colorado Springs police Officer Kristopher Czajkowski told the trio to move back several times. Then the officer started…

Rescue crews were searching Sunday for the body of a missing paddleboarder at Larimer County’s Horsetooth Reservoir. Poudre Fire Authority crews responded Sunday afternoon to Satanka Cove in Horsetooth Reservoir after an unidentified paddleboarder went missing in the water, fire officials said just before 4:15 p.m. on X. The rescue turned into recovery efforts later that evening, after hours of searching with no success, Larimer County sheriff’s officials said. Crews used drones, boats and sonar to search the area where the paddleboarder was last seen, but could not find the paddleboarder, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.…

You can map out the best route, create an itinerary and draw up a schedule. But often the best parts of every road trip are the moments you didn’t plan — those unexpected pitstops driven by curiosity, hunger, a low fuel warning or a desire to stretch your legs. This fall, take yourself on a scenic drive around Northern Colorado. If you keep your eyes peeled, you’ll find plenty of interesting sites and attractions on your own. But, for inspiration, we rounded up some of the best quirky and historic roadside stops in this part of the state. Happy trails!…

When an opposition group fell far short of the signatures needed to bring Colorado’s wolf reintroduction to another statewide vote, it was just the latest failed attempt to stop or pause the voter-mandated initiative. Colorado Advocates for Smart Wolf Policy collected just over 25,000 signatures between the end of March and the Aug. 27 deadline to turn in petitions — about a fifth of the 124,238 the minimum required to place a question on the 2026 ballot. More than 400 volunteers gathered signatures, but the group did not raise enough money to hire paid petition circulators and so could not…

No one in Colorado took home the nearly $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot on Saturday, but seven lucky ticket holders across the state still walked away winners. The seven large-prize tickets sold in Colorado are worth between $50,000 and $1 million, according to a news release from the Colorado Lottery. The prizes include: $1 million from a ticket sold at a Kum & Go/Maverick at 9665 Prominent Point in Colorado Springs $100,000 from a ticket sold at a Loaf N Jug at 101 West Brontosaurus Boulevard in Dinosaur $100,000 from a ticket sold at a Kum & Go/Maverick at 70 West…