Aurora is weighing a rental registration and landlord licensing plan to make it easier to reach negligent owners and improve enforcement.

Hot, dry and gusty this week — highs could reach the mid‑90s Wednesday and a Fire Weather Watch covers parts of the high country. Plan for heat and wind.

Colorado this week became the first state to require automakers and battery makers to finance collection, labeling and recycling for EV propulsion batteries. The law sets recovery targets and a timeline for collection, fees and landfill bans.

Two men were killed in a BASE‑jumping incident at Mineral Bottom in Grand County. Officials identified one victim as Andrew Lewis of Moab and say crews responded to the remote canyon.

A fast warm-up will push Denver into the 90s midweek, with Wednesday, June 17, carrying a heightened fire-weather risk. Plan outdoor activities around cooler hours.

Cloudy, cool Sunday in Denver with a chance of brief afternoon storms. Temperatures surge into the 90s midweek with growing fire‑weather concerns.

A 48-year-old man faces nine arson counts after troopers say he set multiple grass fires along I‑70 near the Utah‑Colorado line. Fire crews put the blazes out and no injuries were reported.

A wrong-way driver who fled a crash in Lone Tree was arrested after a homeowner found him eating watermelon in her kitchen, police say.

The team behind Michelin-starred Beckon has asked the DDDA for help opening a new 16th Street restaurant, part of the authority’s plan to revive the Pavilions corridor.

Launch Family Entertainment will open a roughly 35,000‑sq‑ft park at Yosemite Park Shopping Center in Centennial, with construction slated for August and an early‑2027 opening.

Aurora crews battled a residential blaze on S. Ivory Circle; initial searches came back clear and no victims were found early in the response.

Denver police are seeking tips after a string of break‑ins at closed northwest metro businesses between May 27 and June 5. Tips can be anonymous and may earn up to $2,000.

X Games and Aspen Snowmass signed a three‑year host deal keeping Buttermilk the winter stop through the 2028 629 season as the franchise pivots to league play. The move gives Aspen more calendar certainty as X Games launches its MoonPay X Games League.