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Byline: John Fryar Boulder County's Parks and Open Space Department staff will host its annual public meeting about managing prairie dogs on county-owned properties on Dec. 14, county officials announced. [...]

Byline: John Fryar A post-election Canvass Board voted unanimously Monday afternoon to certify the results that the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder's Office's had reached about the votes cast in [...]

Byline: John Fryar Longmont's City Council has approved allowing a city-owned van to be used to transport homeless Longmont, Boulder and Boulder County residents to a Boulder shelter where they [...]

Byline: John Fryar Heading into the weekend, 37,689 Boulder County voters had returned their completed election ballots as of Thursday night -- a number that amounts to about 16.1% of [...]

Byline: John Fryar Starting at 7 a.m. Wednesday, Boulder County's North 63rd Street culvert project will require closing lanes, officials announced Tuesday. North 63rd will be reduced to one lane [...]

Byline: John Fryar The League of Women Voters of Boulder County is inviting residents to join a Tuesday night virtual conversation about election security. The 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday [...]

Byline: John Fryar Coloradans deciding who'll get their votes in this year's mayoral and city council elections appear to have been discovering or rediscovering that candidates on those voters' blank [...]

Byline: John Fryar Next Tuesday, Boulder County residents can watch the County Clerk and Recorder's Elections Division test the ballots and the ballot-scanning equipment that will be used for this [...]

Byline: John Fryar Boulder County commissioners on Tuesday morning are scheduled to consider an intergovernmental agreement with Longmont for the county's contribution of $2 million toward the $5.5 million Longmont [...]

Byline: John Fryar The Boulder County Attorney's Office and county government's human relations staff are evaluating whether and how sweeping new federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements announced Thursday will affect the [...]

Byline: John Fryar Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty said Thursday that he would like the county government's 2022 budget to include funding for a full-time assistant district attorney whose [...]

Byline: John Fryar Real estate transactions recorded by the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder's Office last year increased 35% from a year earlier, jumping from 65,862 documents filed in 2019 [...]

Byline: John Fryar Boulder County is inviting residents to join the Board of County Commissioners for a Thursday night virtual town hall meeting that's to focus on how the county [...]

Byline: John Fryar For more than 15 years, Barbara Halpin has been the spokesperson for Boulder County's Board of County Commissioners and the departments and agencies under their jurisdiction. Barb [...]

Byline: John Fryar Longmont City Council and staff on Tuesday night are to note the Colorado Lottery's recognition of the multimillion-dollar renovation of Garden Acres Park, a project funded in [...]

Byline: John Fryar Under a preliminary draft of an Independent Legislative Redistricting Committee's staff proposal to reapportion the Colorado Legislature's House and Senate districts, parts of Boulder County would lie [...]

Byline: John Fryar An ordinance updating Boulder County's restrictions and prohibitions about smoking in unincorporated areas takes effect Sunday. Boulder County Public Health officials said in a Friday news release [...]

Byline: John Fryar Martin Marietta Materials Inc. has petitioned the Colorado Supreme Court to review a state Court of Appeals ruling in favor of Save Our St. Vrain Valley, an [...]

Byline: John Fryar Starting Monday, the Regional Transportation District will increase the frequency of buses arriving and departing from stops on two of its local routes inside Longmont and one [...]

Byline: John Fryar Editor's note: The story has been updated to correct the deadline to submit questions or comments in advance of the town hall. Boulder County commissioners will hold [...]

Byline: John Fryar Law enforcement authorities were seeking two suspects Monday after an early morning pursuit of a stolen vehicle in Boulder County's Gunbarrel area yielded a stolen handgun and [...]

Byline: John Fryar Longmont's Planning and Zoning Commission on Wednesday began considering property owners' applications for a complicated set of land-use, zoning and development decisions that would be followed in [...]

Byline: John Fryar Boulder County property values jumped between mid-2018 and mid-2020, in some instances by as much as 20%, County Assessor Cindy Braddock reported Wednesday. Braddock and her staff [...]

Byline: John Fryar The Colorado Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of an ecological activist coalition, Save Our St. Vrain Valley, in that organization's legal efforts to keep Martin [...]

Byline: John Fryar Panelists in a Wednesday night online forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of Boulder County reviewed the potential benefits of locating a large-scale compost facility [...]

Byline: John Fryar The south side of Boulder County's Heil Valley Ranch open space will remain closed through Sept. 30 because of significant public safety concerns and the ongoing process [...]

Byline: John Fryar The Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control and the Colorado Army National Guard will conduct helicopter wildland fire suppression training next week at Longmont's Button Rock [...]

Byline: John Fryar A Boulder District Court judge has dismissed one of the two lawsuit that challenged the legality of Boulder County's now-withdrawn proposal to develop a composting facility on [...]

Byline: John Fryar Longmont City Council members voted 5-2 Tuesday night to delay, for at least two weeks, a decision about sending Boulder County officials a letter expressing the city's [...]

Byline: John Fryar Boulder County officials said Friday that due to the unsafe conditions and high snow totals expected during the pending snowstorm, several county government locations and services will [...]

Byline: John Fryar Boulder County commissioners on Thursday afternoon may formally approve a county department's proposal to withdraw its application to create a composting facility on about 40 acres at [...]

Byline: John Fryar Boulder County Public Health is inviting people who reside or own a business in unincorporated Boulder County to join county health officials in a Monday night virtual [...]

Byline: John Fryar Claire Levy and Marta Loachamin, Boulder County's two newest county commissioners, swore Tuesday morning to support the U.S. and Colorado constitutions and state laws. In oaths administered [...]

Byline: John Fryar Elise Jones, who is concluding her final week as an elected Boulder County commissioner, will be the next executive director of the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project, SWEEP [...]

Byline: John Fryar Longmont police are investigating a flag theft and possible related graffiti vandalism at Roosevelt Park. The flag stolen from a pole outside the St. Vrain Memorial Building, [...]

Byline: John Fryar Starting Friday, it generally will be illegal to park recreational vehicles, camper coaches, camper trailers, trailer coaches and motor homes on Longmont's city streets. An ordinance the [...]

Byline: John Fryar Boulder County has put into place an updated set of regulations that Commissioner Matt Jones recently called 'the state's strongest and most protective oil and gas rules.' [...]

Byline: John Fryar Boulder County government will begin a pilot program Jan. 4 that tests a four-day work week for several county offices and departments, officials announced Tuesday. For the [...]

Byline: John Fryar A pair of environmental groups is appealing a Boulder District Court judge's November ruling against reinstating Longmont's voter-approved ban on hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas deposits [...]

Byline: John Fryar Boulder County now has in place what its county commissioners say are likely the strongest local oil and gas development regulations in Colorado. Commissioners Matt Jones, Deb [...]

Byline: John Fryar Longmont City Council members gave final approval Tuesday night to an ordinance that will generally ban recreational vehicles, camper coaches, camper trailers and mobile homes from parking [...]

Byline: John Fryar Longmont residents and owners of RVs and campers can weigh in Tuesday, when City Council considers whether to give final approval to an ordinance generally banning recreational [...]

Byline: John Fryar Opponents of oil and gas development in unincorporated Boulder County far outnumbered industry spokesmen during a Planning Commission public hearing on proposed updates to the county's oil [...]

Byline: John Fryar Longmont city staff and contractors for the city are to begin their annual autumn citywide street sweeping program Monday. 'Keeping up with falling leaves all across Longmont [...]

Byline: John Fryar The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded the Boulder County Elder Justice Coalition a $397,000 federal grant to train criminal justice professionals and organizations serving older adults [...]

Byline: John Fryar Longmont County Line Road: The widening and installation of left turn lanes and intersection improvements and other work on County Line Road between Ninth and 17th avenues [...]

Byline: John Fryar Starting at 10 a.m. Friday, the Longmont Public Library will reduce public access to its building at 409 Fourth Ave. because of new state and Boulder County [...]

Byline: John Fryar Boulder County restaurants and cafes on Thursday were preparing to comply with stricter COVID-19 limits placed on the number of patrons dining inside, restrictions the state and [...]

Byline: John Fryar Longmont voters' authorization for the city to issue up to $80 million in bonds to finance upgrades to its drinking water supply, treatment, storage and distribution systems [...]

Byline: John Fryar Starting Thursday morning, the eastbound lane of Longmont's Pike Road will be closed to traffic between Miller Drive and South Coffman Street for asphalt paving operations. The [...]