Denver Post

To find some of the best fried chicken in the state, you’ll need to get out of Dodge.
Head toward Colorado Springs, then south on Highway 115, past Fort Carson and the insect museum, to a modest terra cotta house by the side of the road.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Rockies fans headed to games this season will get to see the transformation of the old West Lot, where work has been underway since the team last played to transform the space into a three-building project set to open in 2021.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A house in Aspen just set a new record.
The property at 135 E. Cooper Ave. sold for $21.95 million late last month, but that’s not where the record-setting money resides in this residence nestled in the core of Aspen.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Until two weeks ago, Ward Lucas didn’t even have a Netflix account.
Now the retired investigative reporter and television news anchor who spent three decades at Denver’s 9News is featured in one of the platform’s most talked-about new series.

Colorado marijuana businesses have sold more than $6 billion worth of weed and related products since a voter-approved measure allowing adults over the age of 21 to consume recreational pot took effect in the state on Jan.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Aspen roads can take you home to the place once owned by John Denver.
The public got a glimpse of the fabled musician’s residence on Thursday through an open house after the gated-community property between Aspen and Woody Creek hit the market for $11 million.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Shocker: This holiday seasons will be busy at Denver International Airport.
On Dec. 21, DIA is expecting 196,790 passengers to pass under its tented roof. On Dec. 27, another 198,360 people will do the same.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Thanksgiving is over, but Sprouts Farmers Markets did its part to make the holiday easy on the kitchen-averse, delivering prepared meals to customers in select zip codes across the country, including in Denver.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The seventh annual #GivingTuesday arrives this week, and more than 200 Colorado organizations are participating this year.
Founded in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y in New York City, #GivingTuesday is intended as the unofficial launch of the charitable giving season in much the same way Black Friday unofficially launches the holiday shopping season, according to the movement’s website.

GOLDEN — Carnies, connoisseurs of vintage goods and groupies of a bygone theme park crammed into kiddie-ride compartments Thursday morning, searching out a place to sit while they waited to bid on the remaining attractions, games and memorabilia of the Old West-themed Heritage Square Amusement Park.