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Examines the drought's impact on Aurora, Colorado. Maintenance of golf courses with partly treated wastewater; Proposal for a water pipeline from the South Platte River north of Denver; Aurora as a force in prairie land restoration.

Reports that the Colorado State Court of Appeals has rejected the 12-year sentence given to Terry Lynn Barton, who was found guilty of starting the largest wildfire in Colorado. How Barton started the fire. Order from the appellate court to the trial judge to resentence Barton.

Reports on the deportation threats received by the Sargsyan family, who are originally from Armenia, but living in Ridgway, Colorado. Entrance to the U.S. on student visas and had jobs; Efforts to learn the English language and pay bills on time; Detention of the Sargsyans at an immigration jail in Denver.

Examines the 2004 Parade of Lights in Denver, Colorado. Failure by a local evangelical Christian church to get permission for a religious-themed float with a choir singing hymns and carols; Statement by parade organizers that they will reevaluate their policies in 2005; Attendance at the parade.

Discusses plans for an extended rail transit system attached to the Union Station in downtown Denver, Colorado revealed in November 2004. Details of the project called FasTracks; Source of financing for the project; Volume of in-migration into the city since the 1990s; Survey commissioned by the Metro Denver Economic Development Corp. on the support for mass transit.

Focuses on traffic jams in Colorado. Topography; Options for highways; Growth in interstate residents.

Reports that Colorado voters are considering splitting electoral colleges votes during the November 2004 national election. Implication should Amendment 36 be approved; Efforts by the Republicans to defeat the measure; Issue of the polarization of the nation.

Reports that residents in Colorado will vote in November 2004 on whether to scrap the state's winner-take-all system of distributing Electoral College votes.

Reports that the Colorado State Supreme Court declined to intervene on an evidence question in the rape trial of basketball player Kobe Bryant.

Reports on the court motion filed by prosecutors in the Eagle County, Colorado, rape case against Los Angeles Lakers player Kobe Bryant for a delay in the trial. Claims of the prosecution on the missteps committed by the court in releasing information about the sexual history of Bryant's accuser; Effect of the civil case filed by Bryant's accuser on the criminal case filed by the prosecutors.

Reports that the accuser of basketball player Kobe Bryant filed a lawsuit against him in Federal District Court in Denver, Colorado. Rape case against Bryant; Monetary damages seek by the accuser; Effect of the accuser's move to the prosecution.

Reports that more confidential material from the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case, including the last name of the woman who had accused Bryant of rape, was accidentally released to the public by the court on July 28, 2004, through the Colorado State Judicial Branch Web site. Third instance of supposedly secret sealed papers slipping through the safeguards; Deep tension that has emerged within the case about the flow of information; Delicate balance that the court has tried to strike between the rights to privacy and the rights of a free press.

The article discusses a trend of entrepreneurs, job-seekers, and investors seeking to gain involvement in the legal marijuana industry in Colorado and Washington State as of July 19, 2014. Topics addressed include increases in the number of licensed marijuana growers and recreational marijuana shops, risks involved in entering the marijuana industry, and peripheral industries connected to marijuana growing and use.

The article discusses the first day of recreational sales of marijuana in Colorado following the implementation of the state's legalization of small amounts of recreational marijuana use on January 1, 2014. Topics addressed include long lines of customers waiting to purchase marijuana, as well as U.S. federal authorities' reaction to Colorado's law.

The article looks at how the legalization of marijuana for recreational consumption in Colorado and Washington will impact the two states as shops open to offer the drug to those over the age of 21. According to supporters, the legalization will have economic benefits due to cannabis tourism and reduced public expenses as low-level drug offenses decline. The article goes on to discuss how other states are monitoring how marijuana sales will be regulated and taxed before taking similar action.

The article discusses the most expensive piece of real estate listed in the United States, a ranch north of Aspen, Colorado called "Hala Ranch." It was built on 95 acres in 1991 by Prince Bandar bin Sultan, former U.S. Ambassador from Saudi Arabia. Since the listing has come on the market, the real estate agent has refused most requests to tour the property.

This article describes the effect that snow and cold weather are having on cattle ranchers in the high plains areas of Colorado. Since December 2006 and January 2007, cows have been subjected to blizzards and frigid temperatures. Calves are being born prematurely to mothers weakened by the terrible weather. As of January 24, 2007, at least 3,000 adult cows have been confirmed dead in Colorado and many more are uncounted because they are buried under snow. With calving just beginning, ranchers are concerned about more loss.

The article states that supporters of gay marriage are mobilizing their efforts against those who wish to ban gay marriage. Analysts say that the gay marriage issue is not as big an issue in elections as it has been in previous years. The article describes the views of voters in Colorado about a proposed ban on same-sex marriages and a measure that would provide legal rights for couples in same-sex civil unions.

Reports that Denver International Airport in Colorado is closing its computerized baggage-handling system. Problems with the automated system; How the decision illustrates how much has changed in airline economics and in technology; Background on Denver's baggage check-in system, which was created in the 1990s; Views of industry analysts.

Discusses the economy of Colorado which is supported by the second-home industry, winter tourism and summer tourism. The pros and cons of the second-home and tourism industries; The difficulty in integrating three separate groups, the owners, the year-round local service workers, and the seasonal resort workers, into a community; Comments of Jodi Link, who with Brooke Burgee started Lights On, a company in Vail. INSET: Colorado's Economy Of Second Homes.

Reports that Colorado's highest court, in a sharply divided ruling, upheld a lower court's decision throwing out the sentence of a man who was given the death penalty after jurors consulted the Bible in reaching a verdict. Reference to the Bible by the court as an improper outside influence and a reliance on what the court called a higher authority; Statement by the Colorado Supreme Court in a 3-to-2 decision that jurors must deliberate without the aid or distraction of extraneous texts; Involvement of the jury in the sentencing of Robert Harlan, convicted in 1995 of raping and murdering a cocktail waitress near Denver, to death; Decision of the Supreme Court to change that sentence to life in prison without parole because the jurors had consulted the Bible in their coming to their decision.

The article discusses the prospect of lawful marijuana use in small amounts that is creating a sound improvisation among U.S. state government and law enforcement agencies. It states that voters in Colorado and Washington State approved the legalization of marijuana during the Election Day in 2012. It highlights the blog posts related to the issue from Jonah Spangenthal-Lee, former crime reporter for the wekly "The Stranger."

AURORA, Colo. -- Anticipation built in the packed, darkened movie theater. Life and its cares began to recede. Then, just after midnight on Friday, fantasy became nightmare, and a place of escape became a trap, when a man strode to the front in a multiplex near Denver and opened fire. At least 12 people were killed and 58 wounded, with witnesses describing a scene of claustrophobia, panic and blood. Minutes later, the police arrested James Holmes, 24, in the theater's parking lot. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the best rock songs, which are also by no coincidence the best driving songs, there's a moment when all the gears come into play -- a pause just before the chorus when everything in the universe seems, for the briefest of moments, to expand and your scalp tingles and lifts a millimeter toward infinity. U.S. Highway 285 in Colorado hits that perfect note at Kenosha Pass, when after roughly 65 miles of circuitous if not tedious two-lane mountain driving heading southwest from Denver, you come around a bend and, without warning, roar down into the high, vast expanse of the South Park Valley. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PUEBLO, Colo. -- For many years, and multiple election cycles, Republicans talked about the growing Hispanic vote in America like moonstruck, misunderstood boys at a high school dance. They could not connect, despite believing that they shared much in common, especially with socially conservative, religious Hispanic voters who would one day realize how charming Republicans could be. Now, with the Hispanic vote poised to become a deciding factor in several crucial swing states, Republican leaders think they have found a fresh approach -- an appeal to Hispanics' growing distress over the sluggish economic recovery -- and they are trying to woo people like Arnold L. Gallegos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DENVER -- Molly Brown, the unsinkable survivor of Titanic fame, is about to set sail again, this time as channeled through the historical passions of Janet Kalstrom, a retired information technology specialist and full-time Titanic buff. Ms. Kalstrom, 61, plays Ms. Brown in period dress in a new Titanic exhibit at the Molly Brown House Museum here in Denver, where the Browns once lived. In April, Ms. Kalstrom will embark from Southampton, England, on a re-enactment of the Titanic's fatal cruise, planning to lead fireside chats as Molly -- formally known as Margaret -- and blogging along the way. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DENVER -- The idea of a fabric-draped Arkansas River in southern Colorado, anticipated by many as art and dreaded by others as environmental degradation, has been postponed. The artist Christo, who has been working on the project, called ''Over the River,'' for more than 20 years, through a federal environmental impact study and uncounted rounds of public hearings and local meetings, said the earliest date for the completed installation is now August 2015, a year later than the most recent schedule. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DENVER -- Quite a few of the frighteningly fit live around here. On a balmy Saturday, or for that matter a frigid winter weekday before dawn, an army of them emerges to run and bike. And in their intimidating long strides and whirring spokes, they underscore why Colorado is the least obese state in the nation. But walking to get somewhere? Different story. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DENVER -- A road into the piney woods can be fraught with consequences. That was the premise, more than a decade ago, behind a Clinton administration rule that restricted road building on millions of acres of national forests in the West. The so-called roadless rule, fought over in court from the start, was validated last year by a federal appeals panel, setting off a wave of euphoria among supporters and consternation among critics. But there is a big wrinkle here in Colorado, which was one of only two states -- Idaho was the other -- that at the urging of the Bush administration developed their own rules about roads in the wild. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CANON CITY, Colo. -- The shouting isn't over for ''Over the River.'' The $50 million project by the artist Christo, who hopes to drape nearly six miles of the Arkansas River here in southern Colorado with suspended bank-to-bank fabric, received approval from federal land managers late last year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DENVER -- Few elected officials would ever dare say, at least within earshot of a microphone, that voters making public policy decisions through ballot-box referendums are less capable or wise than legislators deliberating under a capitol dome. But now a federal lawsuit challenging Colorado's 20-year-old taxpayer-controlled state budgeting process, known by its acronym, Tabor, is speaking truth to power, plaintiffs say, and challenging the assumption that voters always know best. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DENVER -- Proponents of marijuana have argued for years that the drug is safer than alcohol, both to individuals and society. But a ballot proposal to legalize possession of marijuana in small amounts in Colorado, likely to be on the November ballot, is putting the two intoxicants back into the same sentence, urging voters to ''regulate marijuana like alcohol,'' as the ballot proposition's title puts it. Given alcohol's long and checkered history -- the tens of thousands of deaths each year, the social ravages of alcoholism -- backers of the pro-marijuana measure concede there is a risk of looking as if they have cozied up too much, or are comparable, to old demon rum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DENVER -- It was probably not, in the end, an idea with huge franchise potential or a killer smartphone app in its future. After all, a gleefully macabre weekend celebration built around a frozen corpse -- complete with coffin races, tours of the shed where the body is kept on ice and, of course, lots of beer -- just might not be as fun beyond the skewed sensibility of Colorado's hippie-tinged mountain belt. But now it's official: Frozen Dead Guy Days are staying put in the small town of Nederland, about an hour northwest of Denver, as are the mortal remains of one Bredo Morstoel, a Norwegian man whose strange and unlikely saga in death -- and long-term storage -- inspired the whole thing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AURORA, Colo. -- Second Banana. Tonto to the scene-stealing Lone Ranger. Name the pejorative of disrespect or neglect and this sprawling city, forever in Denver's shadow as the gawky suburb that outgrew its britches, has probably endured it. No matter that in raw population count, Aurora is the third-largest urban area in Colorado, with 325,000 people, and the 55th biggest city in the nation, according to the census. In a state where consciousness of cool is a finely honed art -- from hippie-tinged Boulder to the snow-clad condo culture of the mountains -- Aurora is widely dismissed as a desert, entirely devoid of culture, cachet and clout. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DENVER -- Under a new map of Colorado Congressional districts approved on Monday by the state's highest court, a once-safe Republican seat in the Sixth District, which had been spread across a sprawling area south of Denver, got tucked in tighter toward the city's edge, making it much more Hispanic and politically diverse. ''It goes from fairly safe Republican to probably competitive,'' said Professor Ken Bickers, the chairman of the political science department at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The seat is held by Representative Mike Coffman, a Republican, who replaced Tom Tancredo in 2008. Mr. Tancredo, a Republican who ran an unsuccessful independent bid for governor of Colorado last year, became a national spokesman in opposition to illegal immigration from his base in the district. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LOUISVILLE, Colo. -- For many Americans who bought more home than they could really afford in the giddy days before the crash, the big-house dream has become a nightmare in the ashes of foreclosure and regret. So after all that, how does 84 square feet sound? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DENVER -- Federal regulators on Monday approved a $50 million installation of anchored fabric over the Arkansas River in southern Colorado by the artist Christo, whose larger-than-life vision has divided environmentalists, residents and politicians for years over questions of aesthetics, nature and economic impact. The project, ''Over the River,'' will include eight suspended panel segments totaling 5.9 miles along a 42-mile stretch of the river, about three hours southwest of Denver. Construction could begin next year, pending final local approvals, with the goal being a two-week display of the work as early as August 2014. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DENVER -- Protesters in Denver and Nashville regrouped on Sunday, a day after dozens of arrests at demonstrations inspired by Occupy Wall Street in both cities. The demonstrators in Denver held a peace vigil in the evening. It followed a melee on Saturday night that was one of the most intense clashes with the police since the protest groups began gathering in a downtown park more than a month ago. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]