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Byline: Sam Lounsberry Cows sometimes get a bad rap when it comes to climate change for emitting loads of planet-warming methane into the atmosphere, but Karel Starek, an owner of [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Water is about to begin disappearing, temporarily, from Boulder Reservoir. As part of a Northern Water-led maintenance project, about 80% of the normal surface area will be [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry University of Colorado Boulder leaders on Thursday attempted to assure city officials the plan to return students to campus this fall amid the coronavirus pandemic will be [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry A lawsuit by Boulder County and Lafayette against the state oil and gas regulator and drilling business 8 North, a subsidiary of Extraction Oil & Gas, can [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Timing plays a role in politics, which is why some Boulder petitioners have targeted this year's ballot, featuring a presidential election, to get their measures certified for [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry In a reversal, Denver Water on Wednesday morning filed a motion to dismiss its appeal of a district court decision that asserted Boulder County has the right [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry A woman was sexually assaulted by force Tuesday afternoon while hiking alone in Boulder County on the Walker Loop Trail, 7701 Flagstaff Road. As the woman was [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry An end to Boulder's decade-long exploration of a municipal electric utility is in sight. City officials and Xcel Energy, the private power provider serving Boulder, have come [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry In a strife familiar to communities along the Front Range and especially in Boulder County, a prairie dog colony on vacant land adjacent to the Celestial Seasonings [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Former Boulder City Attorney Joseph de Raismes III, known for legally protecting the city's internationally renowned open space system, died July 10. The 76-year-old served in that [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder city manager Jane S. Brautigam in 2016 during a Boulder City Council meeting. (File) Longtime Boulder City Manager Jane Brautigam, the municipality's first woman to head [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder's City Council on Tuesday is set for an initial review of a proposal to erect 268 apartment units, with a quarter of them designated as affordable, [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry A lawsuit against Boulder appears to be on the horizon over its handling of resident-led petitions for ballot measures in the run up to the November election. [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry A lawsuit against Boulder appears to be on the horizon over its handling of resident-led petitions for ballot measures in the run up to the November election. [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Fearing power grabs by future elected leaders, Boulder City Council on Tuesday declined to refer to the November ballot a measure that, if approved by voters, would [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder voters will be asked this November whether to expand the city's volunteer Arts Commission body to seven seated members from its current five. City Council, which [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder City Council on Tuesday approved a $22,537 settlement of a claim against the local government stemming from a crash involving a city vehicle. The property damage [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Professional cycling must wait to come back to Boulder. In a Friday announcement, the Colorado Classic all-women's bike race that had been set to hold one of [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Some Boulder residents are doubtful the University of Colorado Boulder's resumption of some in-person campus activity for the fall semester, and the associated flood of students back [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Downtown Boulder employees now have an option to rent a bicycle at a discount for their work commutes. Boulder B-Cycle, the system of about 300 bikes that [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder on Friday announced it is seeking proposals for power supply and financing for the city's potential municipal electric utility, even as settlement discussions with the private [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder County is encouraging residents to respond to a Regional Transportation District survey before Friday to influence future bus services provided as the effects of the coronavirus [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Despite terse email exchanges between Boulder City Council and its Housing Advisory Board leading up to this week's discussion of homelessness policies among elected leaders, the vice [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry So far, so good. That was the sentiment expressed in a Tuesday interview by Hotel Boulderado Green Committee Executive Housekeeper and historian Laurel McKown. The downtown Boulder [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry The nonprofit Boulder Community Health care system is making a big change to its operations, outsourcing some of its work to an industry giant while remaining locally [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder is trying to attract a dockless bicycle-share provider to the city, one including some electric-assist-style vehicles in its fleet that might be able to partner with [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder officials bungled determining this year's petitioning deadlines for resident-proposed ballot measures, it was announced Friday, leading to a complete deflation of the legal weight normally carried [...]

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 City Council on Tuesday approved an agreement with Boulder County to delegate stormwater quality oversight between the separate local governments for construction projects that overlap their [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry With less resources than normal due to city staff furloughs caused by the economy-crumbling coronavirus, Boulder Parks and Recreation Department has made many changes to its operations [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Local political group PLAN-Boulder County on Tuesday withdrew its request for a hearing to oppose a decision by the Boulder city attorney to decline to approve a [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder officials on Tuesday announced the city was one of 16 across the nation and the first in the state to be recognized this year for data-driven [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry A lawsuit filed by the city of Boulder and Boulder and San Miguel counties seeking damages from oil giants for what the local governments say are the [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry A high-ranking Boulder official made clear Tuesday that despite outdoor dining happening locally, restaurants and retailers are still facing adversity as the coronavirus continues to spread through [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder officials announced Monday morning a petition that would require the city to provide renters a lawyer during eviction proceedings would appear on the November ballot after [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Despite Boulder city staff being hit hard by staffing reductions caused by the economic toll of the coronavirus, local officials have limited the damage to City Council's [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry The Museum of Boulder will reopen Sunday with precautions in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The facility had been closed for four months because [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder City Council on Tuesday gave its second nod to allocations of just more than $34.63 million in extra revenue and leftover fund balance, but nearly all [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry A caravan of motorists Tuesday evening cruised throughout Boulder, including just outside City Councilwoman Rachel Friend's house, spooking her dog during a virtual meeting of elected officials [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry With protests in the name of police reform and racial justice as well as a deadly pandemic both continuing across the country, Boulder housing policy has become [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Boulder County reported three new cases of the coronavirus on Monday, bringing the area's total to 1,009 who have tested positive or are considered probable for infection. [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Gunbarrel took center-stage last week when Boulder City Council mulled over which proposals for new land use designations to direct municipal staff to analyze, a crucial step [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry San Souci Mobile Home Park residents woke up Friday expecting to pay 12% more this month in rent for the pads their dwellings sit on than they [...]

Byline: Sam Lounsberry Ken Stickney, of Boulder, a GOP candidate for Colorado House District 10.(Photo Courtesy of Liv Berger) Ken Stickney, a Boulder resident of 34 years, late last week [...]