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Byline: Sam Lounsberry A philosophical debate played out Tuesday among Boulder City Council on how best to keep notoriously smelly cannabis businesses from too forcefully dominating the aromas sensed by [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder Mayor Sam Weaver on Thursday signed the city onto the Obama Foundation-sponsored My Brother's Keeper pledge surrounding police use of force. Former President Barack Obama launched [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold and City Council at its Tuesday meeting pledged local law enforcement reform beyond what is already underway as a another night of [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry City Council made '20 is plenty' the official law in Boulder on Tuesday night, adopting on first reading a new rule lowering residential speed limits from 25 [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder's Native Roots announced Thursday it is the first medical marijuana business in the state to be allowed to deliver cannabis products to people in their homes. [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry A crucial democratic process to put potential new laws before voters has been disrupted in Boulder and Colorado by the coronavirus outbreak, but City Council could step [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder City Council debated this week whether the local government's current process for developing a voter-approved online petitioning system is sufficient, with a minority advocating a redo. [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder officials' hopes remained high this week for a potential reintroduction of a Colorado bill that would allow the city to ban sales and uses of certain [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Editor's note: An earlier version of this story misspelled police chief candidate Maris Herold's last name. The story below has been updated. Boulder police chief finalists remained [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Finalists for the Boulder police chief job on Monday each tried to sell a vision for how the city's law enforcement agency could engage the public to [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Adam Kulikowski is facing $10,000 in fines from Boulder, plus thousands more in lost income from potentially having a city home rental license revoked, as officials have [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder City Council directed city staff Tuesday to draft regulations for hemp cultivation and processing facilities. Should the Council eventually adopt regulations on hemp businesses, it would [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder cleared the way Tuesday for a handful of additional new dwellings to be constructed in a patch of the University Hill neighborhood. Only six new homes [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder City Council last month made it a priority to raise the minimum wage within city limits, and at the council's meeting with Boulder County Commissioners on [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Liquor licensing law in Boulder was slightly tweaked Tuesday. City Council gave initial approval to Beverage Licensing Authority rule changes, with the most notable among them impacting [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder tobacco retailers starting in July will have to move through city licensing processes, after City Council unanimously approved new regulations Tuesday. With the new rules, the [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Business license applications in Boulder for pot lounges -- establishments where people can legally get high outside private homes -- are unlikely to be processed until April [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder Planning Board on Thursday teed up another round of regulation relaxation on accessory dwelling units to kick off in the city. The board's set of motions [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder in 2020 is again set to lobby for a slew of legislative changes to Colorado and U.S. laws that could help the city reach its environmental, [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Gala Orba entered the Boulder City Council race with goals she discovered she may not be able to achieve in her capacity if elected. A single-use plastics [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder's skirmish with a local business managing immigrant oversight reached a new phase this week. City leaders are resorting to means other than influencing police department policy [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder City Council is simultaneously testing the limits of setting an ambitious yearly work plan and making incremental progress on multiple projects. Council has split development regulation [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry E-scooter businesses have their sights set on Boulder, and city officials are prepping for their arrival. Despite a temporary ban on e-scooter companies operating in the city, [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder City Council on Tuesday gave final approval to tweaks to its hate crimes ordinance to expand the city's ability to prosecute users of culturally insensitive language [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry A slew of updates to Boulder's hate crimes and language surrounding gender identities in the municipal code were passed Tuesday by city council. The rules, passed on [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder City Council on Tuesday made the first move toward banning sales of flavored nicotine and tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes, in the city. With approval of [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Editor's note: This article has been clarified to state menthol cigarettes are included in the potential flavor ban, and that the age to buy any tobacco or [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Light applause sounded from a packed hearing room Tuesday, following Boulder County commissioners unanimously voting to extend a moratorium on staff processing or approving new oil and [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry The director of the state oil and gas oversight body on Thursday released final criteria dictating which drilling applications will come under his direct decision-making purview until [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Oil and gas industry leaders are clashing with Boulder County lawmakers over whether reducing the number of members with professional backgrounds in extraction on the state's drilling [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Police chiefs in the Longmont and Carbon Valley areas are so far staying silent on Weld County Commissioners' suggestion last week that the so-called 'red flag' gun [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Even with a proposed sweeping overhaul of state oversight of the oil and gas industry that includes provisions that would allow Boulder County to nix drilling as [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder County's local governments over the past several years have made numerous attempts to use land use and zoning regulations to set their own rules for approving [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder County governments could get what they've been wanting for years if a Colorado bill getting introduced in the state legislature in the coming days becomes law: [...]

Byline: Sam LounsberryBoulder property owners listing their homes or rooms in them as vacation rentals will soon have new regulations to follow.A measure approved Tuesday by city council aims to [...]

Byline: Sam LounsberryEmployee Sean Powers hands a jar of marijuana to a customer at Helping Hands Herbal dispensary on Tuesday. (Jeremy Papasso / Staff Photographer)Boulder City Councilman Sam Weaver wants [...]

Byline: Sam LounsberryRenewing the push to strengthen Colorado's oil and gas drilling regulations was a major area of focus Wednesday morning when Boulder County commissioners met with state lawmakers.The conversation [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Police Officer Ismael Aldana, right, hugs his brother Vinny Aldana after being sworn in as a Mead police officer during a ceremony in March 2017 at Mead [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry If you go What: Meeting on rifle storage at Niwot High School When: 6 p.m. Thursday Where: Sunset Middle School, 1300 S. Sunset St., Longmont. Questions ranging [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder County Public Health officials are prepared to start surveying known intravenous drug users to gauge interest in bringing a supervised injection facility to the county if [...]