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An 8-year-old girl was attacked by a cow elk while riding her bike in an Estes Park neighborhood Thursday afternoon, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials. The girl was riding her bike around 1 p.m. Thursday when a female elk approximately 60 yards away charged at her and stomped her multiple times, state officials said in a news release Friday. She was taken to a hospital for treatment and released later on Thursday. A wildlife officer later found a cow elk and young calf in the area, and the elk became aggressive toward the officer, according to CPW. Related Articles Colorado News | Letters: Mama bear didn’t deserve to be euthanized in Steamboat Springs Colorado News | Wildlife officials confirm another gray wolf livestock attack in Jackson County Colorado News | Bear euthanized in Steamboat Springs after injuring person on morning walk, wildlife officials say Colorado News | Black bear swipes at, attacks Steamboat hiker too close to cub Colorado News | Here’s where Colorado’s wolves traveled in May — including near some I-70 mountain communities The officer hazed the elk by filing a bean-bag round, and the elk stopped being aggressive.

BROOMFIELD — Past fields of yellow wildflowers, tall grass and prairie dog burrows, an Adams County geology teacher, four of his students and the Broomfield mayor huddled around the fossilized footprint of a horned dinosaur that roamed this land some 70 million years ago. “To have this in our own backyard,” Mayor Guyleen Castriotta said.

Boasting that child poverty in Colorado would soon be cut nearly in half, Gov. Jared Polis on Friday signed a large new tax credit for low-income families into law. The ceremony put an underline on a legislative session that featured state policymakers looking again and again to the state surplus to flatten inequalities.

Don’t take the wag out of the puppy’s tail. When watching Broncos practice Thursday, my eyes shifted to Javonte Williams. He is entering his fourth season with the team. If you haven’t realized, running backs age in dog years. It is the nature of the position. There is only so much tread on the tire. As Williams ran through drills, he showed the enthusiasm so common during his rookie campaign. Williams is not like most running backs.

A less celebrated homecoming is happening this weekend at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. But for U. S. Deaf Women’s National Team defender and Littleton native Mia White, it’s nothing short of a dream come true. Before USWNT stars and fellow Coloradans Sophia Smith, Lindsey Horan and Mallory Swanson hit the DSGP pitch to face South Korea on Saturday afternoon, the Deaf WNT, 37-0-1 all-time, will host Australia in its first game since winning the 2023 DIFA World Deaf Football Championships last October. What makes this different for White, who plays professionally for Finnish second-tier club Kotkan Työväen Palloilijat, is she will be playing at home in Colorado for the first time in a U.

Dear Amy: I am getting married in July at the age of 54. My boyfriend and I have been together for 18 years and have no children. This is our first marriage and we just never saw any reason to get married before, but now due to some plans for our future, we know that being married will be easier for us. We are having my sister be the officiant and we will have a brief exchange of vows with only my parents and two siblings in attendance.