South Platte River Cleanup Aims To Beautify Waterway
You can't go much more than a few yards along the South Platte River without seeing trash. In the water and along the riverbanks you'll find everything from plastic bottles to shopping carts.
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You can't go much more than a few yards along the South Platte River without seeing trash. In the water and along the riverbanks you'll find everything from plastic bottles to shopping carts.
Denver police responded to 8th Avenue and Zuni Street after they say an unidentified adult male was found dead in the South Platte River.
More than a dozen cities and counties were impacted as historic amounts of water flowed through a half dozen major rivers and tributaries.
A man accused of attacking a woman on a trail in Littleton now faces charges of kidnapping, sexual assault and strangulation.
A Colorado woman says she was choked, stripped almost naked, and tied up by a sex offender while walking on a trail in Littleton on Wednesday morning.
One group is trying to clean up the plastic littering a popular attraction in Denver.
Drought and low water levels are putting the South Platte River off limits to recreation this weekend.
After years of construction, a major river revitalization project in Denver's Confluence Park is open to the public.
The City of Thornton could soon capitalize on an investment made decades ago, that would provide their growing city with enough access to drinkable water for decades to come.
Denver Public Works is using a new gadget that is meant to keep our water clean.
Funeral services were held on Saturday for the man who was found dead after disappearing in December.
A deceased man pulled from the South Platte River in Denver Saturday has been officially identified as Adam Gilbertson, 29, who had been missing for nearly a month.
A search party looking for a missing man on Saturday found his body by the South Platte River in Denver.
More than a hundred people spent hours Saturday searching parks, trails and waterways in Denver hoping to find a missing man.
Denver police are at the scene of a death investigation at the South Platte River near Alameda Parkway and Broadway.
Developers opened downtown Denver's newest high-rise apartment building on Monday morning.
Confluence Park's Shoemaker Plaza is in its final days of renovation.
Firefighters had to rescue someone Sunday after they got stuck on an island in the Platte River.
A man died after slipping into the South Platte River overnight.
A Castle Rock man drowned while tubing in the South Platte River in Jefferson County on Saturday.
It is one of Colorado's treasures for recreation, but the north fork of the South Platte River in Denver and Adams County has now become an intersection of outdoor recreation and abject poverty, dotted with homeless camps.
Some residents of northeast Colorado are preparing for the possibility of flooding over the next several days.
Police are working to determine how a car wound up going off the roadway in Denver Friday morning and dropping off an embankment.
Oil and gas company BP is making a big move from Texas to Colorado because of the region's importance as an energy hub.
The federal government says Denver and the Denver Housing Authority have a unique plan to revitalize one neighborhood.
A man has been indicted on two counts by a grand jury for allegedly tampering with the body of Denver hairstylist Jax Gratton.
Even though it has already been about three decades since the mid-90s, one of the next musicals coming to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts promises to make audiences feel like the 90s were yesterday.
New climate data show the December through February period ranked as the second warmest winter in the United States in NOAA's 131-year climate record. Several western states, including Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Wyoming, recorded their warmest winter on record.
Commerce City police said no weapons or explosives were found and no one was injured, but later in the day, they said that two students were arrested for filing a false report of a bomb and an active shooter.
Young job seekers in particular are feeling the brunt of the weak jobs report as they're trying to make ends meet
A man has been indicted on two counts by a grand jury for allegedly tampering with the body of Denver hairstylist Jax Gratton.
Even though it has already been about three decades since the mid-90s, one of the next musicals coming to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts promises to make audiences feel like the 90s were yesterday.
New climate data show the December through February period ranked as the second warmest winter in the United States in NOAA's 131-year climate record. Several western states, including Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Wyoming, recorded their warmest winter on record.
CBS News Colorado's new documentary, "Making Ends Meet," follows hard-working Colorado families facing financial hurdles that defy easy solutions.
Girls & Science continues at CSU Spur with STEM focused 2nd Saturday event.
Workers at the JBS meat processing facility in Greeley are preparing to strike Monday.
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Investigators believe that after Gratton died in April 2025, Brandon David Mumma put her body and belongings in trash bags and dropped them out of a second-story window into a dumpster in an alley below the window.
Even though it has already been about three decades since the mid-90s, one of the next musicals coming to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts promises to make audiences feel like the 90s were yesterday.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says the ICE agents are no longer in the field following their investigation into the "Ace of Spades" cards being left on cars of recently detained immigrants.
As the Colorado Avalanche took to the ice for their morning skate at Ball Arena on Tuesday, 17-year-old Sabrina Cassano stood along the glass smiling ear to ear.
Nathan MacKinnon scored his NHL-leading 43rd goal and scored the winning goal in a shootout, lifting the Colorado Avalanche to a 3-2 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Sunday in a matchup between two of the NHL's top four teams in points.
Iran's women's soccer team was branded "traitors" after declining to sing their national anthem at the Asian Cup in Australia, fueling fear for the women if they returned home.
Oksana Masters has competed at every Paralympics since 2012 and is the most decorated American Winter Paralympian.
A Denver-based UFC fighter will be representing Colorado in the octagon this Saturday night in Las Vegas.
Howard Schultz said he and his wife will move to Florida as Washington weighs a roughly 10% annual tax on earnings over $1 million.
About 30 U.S. service members remained hospitalized Tuesday after an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait.
The emergency oil release — the largest in the multinational organization's history — could help ease oil prices in the short term, according to analysts.
The inflation data captures the period before the Iran war broke out. Since then, oil prices have surged, driving inflation fears.
Richard Kahn was one of Epstein's closest associates in his final years, managing his finances and investments.
About 30 U.S. service members remained hospitalized Tuesday after an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait.
President Trump told FIFA representatives Tuesday that Iran is welcome to play in the World Cup tournament in the United States, officials told CBS News.
Richard Kahn was one of Epstein's closest associates in his final years, managing his finances and investments.
In a sign of just how toxic political discourse has become, a debate in Denver aimed at modeling civility ended in a political protest.
The office that polices attorney misconduct in Washington, D.C., has filed ethics charges against Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin.
A measles outbreak tied to local schools has some parents in the Broomfield community weighing difficult decisions about everyday activities, especially those with infants too young to be vaccinated.
Dentists, hygienists, and researchers say a shortage of rural dental care professionals and worsening oral hygiene since the COVID-19 pandemic mean more kids are ending up in the emergency room for tooth decay.
The zipper head on the recalled HALO Magic Sleepsuits poses a danger to babies, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
In July, Prasad was briefly forced from his job, but was reinstated less than two weeks later.
Health officials in Colorado have identified four additional cases of measles in connection with the recent outbreak at Broomfield High School or Broomfield Heights Middle School and have expanded the list of locations for possible exposure.
Howard Schultz said he and his wife will move to Florida as Washington weighs a roughly 10% annual tax on earnings over $1 million.
The emergency oil release — the largest in the multinational organization's history — could help ease oil prices in the short term, according to analysts.
The inflation data captures the period before the Iran war broke out. Since then, oil prices have surged, driving inflation fears.
Even if oil prices ease, they won't return to the levels they were at before the war started, according to Patrick De Haan of GasBuddy.
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is designed to cushion disruptions to U.S. oil supplies during emergencies.
There's harsh criticism of a Colorado police officer charged with failing to report a crash -- a crash investigators say he was partially responsible for while off-duty. Some of the strongest criticism is coming from an unexpected place.
A CBS Colorado investigation has learned the City of Denver has spent $110,000 on a 14-month investigation of Denver Police Division Chief Magen Dodge, but is refusing to release the completed investigation, which was finalized three months ago.
A Colorado family is calling for change and sharing their struggle after a clinical trial their son relied on suddenly ended.
The case of a police officer who allegedly fled after off-duty road rage incident that ended in crash on I-25 is highlighting the hiring pressures small departments in Colorado face.
A popular youth hockey coach in southern Colorado has been arrested for investigation of felony child abuse after colliding on the ice with one of his players in a case that one of the coach's supporters called a "terrifying precedent for youth sports across the country."