Aurora Borealis Taking Over Us Skies

A series of powerful storms swept over the central and southern U. S. over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, killing at least 21 people and leaving a wide trail of destroyed homes, businesses and power outages. The destructive storms caused deaths in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kentucky and were just north of an oppressive, early season heat wave setting records from south Texas to Florida. Forecasters said the severe weather could shift to the East Coast later Monday and warned millions of people outdoors for the holiday to watch the skies. Kentucky Gov.

Editor’s note: This is part of The Know’s series, Staff Favorites. Each week, we will offer our opinions on the best Colorado has to offer for dining, shopping, entertainment, outdoor activities and more. (We’ll also let you in on some hidden gems). Growing up in my household, summer was synonymous with pasta salad. At every backyard barbecue, birthday or casual lunch, my grandma’s version is requested.

With fewer people moving across state lines, and population growth slowing, places within Colorado will have to compete harder with each other to attract new residents. But where can future residents find the biggest bang for the buck? Grand Junction, Littleton and Loveland are the top three spots in Colorado, according to a new ranking from USA Today Homefront. Denver and Aurora rank near the bottom, while Boulder and Colorado Springs make the top 10. Homefront, after surveying Texas and Florida, looked at 21 municipalities and one census-designated place, Highlands Ranch, with a population of 40,000 or more in Colorado.

The Denver Art Museum’s new “Biophilia” gives people what they want in an art exhibition these days: multi-sensory objects that come in blazing colors, that light up before the eyes, that change shape and stature in response to the movement of whatever body is in the room. It is an interactive and high-tech affair, and about as far away from a traditional display of pretty pictures hanging on a gallery wall as you can get.

U. S. Army Technician Fifth Grade Clifford H. Strickland (Photo via Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency) On the last Tuesday in December, Jacque VanBuskirk received the phone call her family had awaited for generations — the remains of an uncle she’d never met, a World War II prisoner of war who had been considered missing in action for almost 82 years, finally had been identified. The body of 25-year-old Clifford H.

SUPERIOR — The hundreds of goats munching dead vegetation on a patch of roadside open space represent this Boulder County town’s latest effort at staving off wildfires. The goats, encircled by electric fencing and guarded by herding dogs, were grazing Wednesday between a residential neighborhood and the El Dorado K-8 School near the intersection of Mount Sopris Parkway and Indiana Street. Just up the road marks the bounds of the Marshall fire, Colorado’s most destructive wildfire that killed two people and destroyed more than $2 billion worth of property in Superior, Louisville and unincorporated Boulder County in December 2021. Investigators concluded the disastrous blaze began with reignited embers on the grounds of an international religious cult and from sparks from a broken power line about 2,000 feet away.