Editor’s note: This is part of The Know’s series, Staff Favorites. Each week, we offer our opinions on the best that Colorado has to offer for dining, shopping, entertainment, outdoor activities and more. (We’ll also let you in on some hidden gems.) Embracing the spirit of the multi-ethnic cuisines that permeate Aurora, one eatery is blending … Read more
Cynthia Hawkins and Bill Christopher both depict themselves as moderates whose vote preferences this year are being steered, at least in part, by worries over immigration. But it’s not driving their votes the same way. Instead, their shared concerns about the sheer number of new arrivals to the country in recent years, along with the … Read more
The family of a Nicaraguan asylum-seeker who died from an undiagnosed blood clot is suing the operator of a privately run Aurora detention center that they say ignored his pleas for help following a pattern of preventable detainee deaths. Dorling Peralta Rivera, wife of Melvin Ariel Calero Mendoza, and their two children say Mendoza languished … Read more
Aurora Mayor Pro Tem Dustin Zvonek is resigning from the City Council at the end of October, one year before the end of his term. Zvonek announced his resignation during an Aurora council meeting Monday and did not go into detail about why he was leaving. “Sometimes in life, you get thrown a curveball, or … Read more
Aurora in Ladakh (Picture credit: Agencies) NEW DELHI: Ladakh‘s recent sightings of aurora, marked by reddish or greenish light in the night sky and usually observed in the far northern regions, is a validation of our efforts in space weather monitoring, a team of astrophysicists that predicted the activity about 48-72 hours prior said. The … Read more
The Republican mayor of Aurora, Colorado, said former President Donald Trump’s rally in the city Friday presented an opportunity “to show him and the nation” that Aurora is “not a city overrun by Venezuelan gangs.” Mayor Mike Coffman made the statement Tuesday after weeks of misleading claims by the former president that the city was … Read more
Donald Trump’s visit to Aurora on Friday for a sold-out rally will mark the first big public event by a major-party presidential candidate in Colorado this year — with Trump’s visit motivated more by the chance to amplify his rhetoric about migrants than to seize on any likely prospect of winning Colorado. His planned afternoon … Read more
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
A longtime staple of the Front Range’s Mexican food scene will soon serve its last taco. Comida is preparing to close at The Stanley Marketplace in Aurora (2501 Dallas St., Unit 140) after eight years, according to posts on social media. Its last service will be brunch on Sept. 22. Comida owner Rayme Rossello talks … Read more
Former President Donald Trump in a speech Friday identified Aurora, along with Springfield, Ohio, as cities from which he would deport immigrants if he is elected in November. “We’re going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country,” Trump told reporters in Los Angeles, according to an account of the speech from … Read more
