Gabe Evans’ lead over U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo shrinks in close congressional race

Gabe Evans’ lead over U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo shrinks in close congressional race

Republican state Rep. Gabe Evans held onto his lead over U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo as results continued to trickle in at the tail-end of a tight race to represent Colorado’s 8th Congressional District. Evans’ lead shrank between Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, from 2,529 votes to 1,995 as of 12:29 p.m., with Evans claiming about … Read more

Yadira Caraveo and Gabe Evans race for Congress still undecided Friday

Yadira Caraveo and Gabe Evans race for Congress still undecided Friday

The race for Congress between U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo and Republican state Rep. Gabe Evans narrowed once again Friday afternoon, according to newly updated results. But there are still thousands of ballots outstanding in Adams County, which has been favoring Caraveo by nearly 12 percentage points. As of 12:39 p.m., the Democrat held a slim … Read more

Yadira Caraveo, Gabe Evans still locked in stalemate in Colorado’s CD8

Yadira Caraveo, Gabe Evans still locked in stalemate in Colorado’s CD8

Living up to its reputation as one of the nation’s closest contests for Congress, the race for Colorado’s 8th Congressional District remained locked in a stalemate Thursday evening as Democratic incumbent Yadira Caraveo clung to a razor-thin lead over her Republican opponent, state Rep. Gabe Evans. Two days after polls closed, both campaigns were waiting … Read more

Westminster voters reject measure to end at-large council elections

Westminster voters reject measure to end at-large council elections

Westminster voters in Tuesday’s election chose to continue selecting their elected leaders in the way they always have: by a citywide vote rather than dividing the city up into three geographic wards for more targeted votes. Ballot Question 3D, which would have established three wards in the city represented by two council members each, was … Read more

Where to find housing on the ballot

Where to find housing on the ballot

Living in Colorado, for many, means spending a lot of time worrying about how to make the rent or the mortgage — or whether they’ll ever be able to buy a home. Housing costs have been on a long and sometimes sharp climb throughout the state. In Colorado Springs, home prices have risen 119% since … Read more

Denver slaughterhouse ban supporters say video shows animal abuse

Denver slaughterhouse ban supporters say video shows animal abuse

Attorneys representing anonymous animal rights activists on Wednesday released edited video footage filmed by their clients that they allege shows criminal mistreatment of lambs inside Denver’s only existing slaughterhouse. The same facility — the Superior Farms lamb processing plant in north Denver’s Globeville neighborhood — is the focus of a measure on the city’s ballot … Read more

South Adams County Water and Sanitation District runs Ballot Issue 6A

South Adams County Water and Sanitation District runs Ballot Issue 6A

A water provider in metro Denver has faced a lose-lose situation: Apply for state funding for water projects and risk giving up tax revenue — or abstain from seeking the millions of dollars of available grant money altogether. It’s a bad choice voters can help an Adams County water district avoid by passing a ballot … Read more

Colorado’s 8th Congressional District race a dead heat, new poll shows

Yadira Caraveo, Gabe Evans still locked in stalemate in Colorado’s CD8

The race for the 8th Congressional District — a battleground contest that could help decide which party controls the U.S. House — is tied about a month out from Election Day, according to a new poll released Wednesday. Forty-four percent of likely voters surveyed backed Democratic U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo, and 44.2% supported her challenger, … Read more

Police arrest suspect in fatal Aurora liquor store shooting

Police arrest suspect in fatal Aurora liquor store shooting

A 20-year-old Denver man was arrested Sunday in connection with last week’s shooting death of a Venezuelan man at an Aurora liquor store on East Colfax Avenue. The Aurora Police Department Major Crime Homicide Unit announced Monday it had apprehended Davonte McCoy Bletson on suspicion of second-degree murder in the death of the 38-year-old Aurora … Read more

Palizzi Farm worries developer’s pipeline plans — allowed by eminent domain ruling — will hurt business

Palizzi Farm worries developer’s pipeline plans — allowed by eminent domain ruling — will hurt business

Palizzi Farm lost a big battle at the beginning of the summer when a judge ruled a metropolitan district could run a stormwater pipe across the 95-year-old Brighton farm to support a planned housing development nearby. But tucked into the final page of Adams County District Judge Sarah Stout’s 41-page eminent domain ruling was an … Read more