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Butterfly Pavilion lepidopterist Manager Shiran Herscovich teaches a crowd of community volunteers about butterflies during a Colorado Butterfly Monitoring Network training at the Castlewood Canyon State Park in Franktown on Saturday, May 3, 2025. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

Butterflies are disappearing. Here’s how community scientists are working to save them.

June 17, 2025 at 10:42 a.m.

“It's a complex picture of ups and downs, but what we do know for certain is that, overall, we are losing more butterflies than we are gaining,” one scientist said....

Protestors chant during a demonstration against President Donald Trump’s use of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, prison for people deported from the U.S. for entering the country illegally, outside the Embassy of El Salvador in Washington, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans from Colorado

April 15, 2025 at 10:43 a.m.

The ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of two Venezuelan men accused of being part of Tren de Aragua.

Former Clear Creek County sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Buen arrives at the Clear Creek County Courthouse in Georgetown, Colorado, on April 15, 2024. Buen was on trial on charges of second-degree murder, reckless endangerment and official misconduct in connection with the the death of 22-year-old Christian Glass after Glass called 911 for help in 2022. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Former Colorado deputy sentenced to 3 years in prison for killing man who called for help

April 14, 2025 at 10:59 a.m.

Andrew Buen received the maximum possible sentence for criminally negligent homicide and reckless endangerment.

President Donald Trump's portrait hangs in the Colorado Capitol

Trump’s portrait at Colorado Capitol to come down after president complained it was “purposefully distorted”

March 24, 2025 at 2:18 p.m.

The portrait was paid for with a Republican-led fundraising effort.

Colorado U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert arrives for an election watch party at The Grainhouse in Windsor on Nov. 5, 2024. Boebert was running for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District against Democratic candidate Trisha Calvarese, after Boebert moved from Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert under fire for “racist and derogatory” comment about Black congressman

March 11, 2025 at 2:19 p.m.

A Democratic congresswoman from Pennsylvania is pushing to censure Colorado U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, alleging Boebert made “racist and derogatory” comments about a Black colleague on television.

A man take a picture of the arrival board filled with canceled and delayed flights at Denver International Airport on Saturday, July 20, 2024. (Photo by Zachary Spindler-Krage/The Denver Post)

What do airlines owe passengers for flight delays, cancellations?

August 12, 2024 at 1:42 p.m.

Delays and cancellations happen. What are airlines required to offer passengers for the inconvenience?

The sun sets behind a replica of the old guard tower at The Amache National Historic Site on November 14, 2022 in Granada, Colorado. By Executive Order 9066, over 7,000 Japanese, most being American citizens, were forcibly imprisoned at the Granada Relocation Center in Granada, Colorado from 1942-45. The Granada site, with the smallest population of the ten relocation centers, became the tenth largest concentration of people in the state of Colorado; it is one the best preserved with intact foundations and little alteration by subsequent development. It is located one mile west of downtown Granada. The population of Granada peaked at 7,318 detainees. On March 18, 2022 President Biden signed into law ÒAmache National Historic Site Act, which will help preserve, protect, and interpret the site where civilians of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated during World War II. It is now a National Historic Site. Ironically, by the end of WWII, nearly 1000 young men and women from Amache had served in the American military fighting for the United States yet were still imprisoned at Amache. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

Colorado is now home to America’s newest national park

February 16, 2024 at 10:46 a.m.

Amache National Historic Site in southeastern Colorado is officially America's newest national park, the National Park Service announced Thursday.

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