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NASHVILLE – The Colorado Avalanche took a significant step Friday to gaining the financial flexibility needed to make a splash before the NHL trade deadline later this week. Now the two big questions are who can the Avs realistically target and how can they get a deal (or deals) done by the afternoon of March 8? Colorado has one of the best teams in the NHL, but Dallas, Winnipeg and Vancouver have already made significant trades, while Vegas and Edmonton have reportedly been actively looking for help as well. “We’ve seen it and I’m sure our management has seen it,”…

Homeowners associations’ foreclosure filings on thousands of Coloradans’ houses over unpaid fines and fees have spurred fresh attempts by lawmakers to better regulate HOAs and metropolitan districts with the hope of preventing more people from losing their homes. Lawmakers have introduced several reform bills that would restrict foreclosures from delinquent fees and require HOAs and metro districts to adopt written policies, enhance notifications to homeowners and add licensing requirements for professional managers. The legislation would also set regulations on how much homeowners can be charged. HOAs would be required to work with homeowners before beginning any foreclosure proceedings. “As more…

NASHVILLE — The Colorado Avalanche continues to take one step forward and one step back away from Ball Arena. Cody Glass had a hat trick and Juuse Saros made 25 saves Saturday to help the Nashville Predators slowly pull away in a 5-1 victory at Bridgestone Arena. “(Our play) slid more and more as the game went on,” forward Logan O’Connor said. “The puck became like a hand grenade for us. When that happens, you have to support one another and be closer, but I felt like we were more spread out. The result can be what you just saw…

Amid the din of Denver Coliseum, Chris Olson’s voice rose above the rest. “God dang it!” the D’Evelyn girls basketball coach bellowed after the University Bulldogs, trailing by 21 points in the third quarter, finally broke his Jaguars’ full-court press. Such is the intensity No. 2 D’Evelyn is bringing to its bid to claim the program’s first state title — one the Jaguars are a step closer to after routing No. 7 University, 55-39, in the Class 4A Great 8 on Saturday. “This is a group of kids, they’re competitors,” Olson said. “They just don’t want to settle for, ‘oh,…

Playing the long game? That’s a headache for a coach. Nuggets guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is hungry for home-court advantage in the West again, no matter what Michael Malone says about prioritizing roster health over the regular-season standings. “It’s crunch time,” Caldwell-Pope said this week in the midst of Denver’s clinical win streak. “We want to be the No. 1 seed.” At 30, he is the oldest member of the starting lineup Malone is so understandably hellbent on protecting for Denver’s remaining 22 games. But in the heat of the Nuggets’ post-All-Star break resurgence, Caldwell-Pope’s inspired take was equally understandable. Especially…

Two men died in separate homicides — a stabbing and a shooting — overnight Friday in Denver, police announced Saturday. Denver police investigators were on the scene of a fatal shooting in the 9800 block of East Girard Avenue just after 11 p.m. Friday, according to a post from the department on X. An adult man was found dead at the scene and, in an update at 4:52 a.m. Saturday, the police department announced his death was being investigated as a homicide. Just 10 miles north, Denver police were investigating a second homicide — a fatal stabbing in the 4900…

Top-seeded Kent Denver soared into the Class 4A Final Four with an exclamation point. Kent Denver Sun Devils Caleb Fay (13) lays up a shot in the third quarter of the boys 4A Colorado high school playoffs quarter finals against the DSST: Green Valley Ranch Raptors at the Denver Coliseum in Denver on Saturday, March 02, 2024. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post) Late in the game, super sophomore Caleb Fay floated high above the rim and threw down a two-handed, alley-oop dunk. “That felt great,” Fay said with a gigantic grin. A lot of things had to feel great…

A large crowd gathered to march through the Cherry Creek neighborhood in support of a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, characterized by many there as a genocide and calling for broader Palestinian liberation on Saturday, March 2, 2024, in Denver, Colorado. source

A fast-moving wildfire burning on more than 800 acres of land south of Las Animas shut down Colorado 101 and sparked evacuation orders in the area Saturday. As of 3:30 p.m. Saturday, what emergency officials have dubbed the “Boggsville fire” had grown to 831 acres of land with 0% containment and was still rapidly growing, according to an update from the Las Animas/Bent County Fire Protection District on social media. Evacuation orders are in place for east of Las Animas and Fort Lyon, the fire protection district stated on social media Saturday. Those living just south of Highway 50 at…

As Legend girls basketball chases history, they want everyone to remember that “you are enough.” That’s the mantra of the Cayson Pearson Memorial Scholarship Fund, started in honor of a former Green Mountain basketball player who died by suicide in January. The Titans decided to use their publicity from advancing to the Denver Coliseum, where they are set to play Regis Jesuit in the Final Four, to promote the fund’s cause and message. “These girls wanted to take advantage of their minute in the spotlight, and do something bigger than themselves,” explained Legend head coach Darren Pitzner, who used to…