Commerce City News

Officials from the U.S. Attorney's Office, the FBI and local law enforcement agencies said they arrested 75 people Thursday and plan to charge a total of 97 individuals in connection with what they called "the largest mass drug arrest in Colorado history." Authorities seized 11 weapons, a pound of methamphetamine, more than $400,000 in cash, 26,000 ... (more)

Residents in one Commerce City neighborhood are fighting for quiet. They say they're rattled out of bed every night by train horns.

Police may soon be heard shooting up the prairie just outside of town and not at a pack of wild outlaws.

At a gathering of local governing bodies Jan. 31, the Brighton 27J board of education and Brighton and Commerce City councils discussed ways to work toward the future - together.

Commerce City resident Michael Scanlon, author of "Confessions of a Mutual Fund Salesman," wants to get the word out about a practice in the financial industry that many people aren't aware of: high frequency trading.

City council members heard multiple predictions for the future from the finance department Jan.

Primos Hardcore & Wrestling has spent the better half of a decade making a name for itself as a premiere independent promotor and cultivator of extreme wrestling entertainment in Colorado.

"Roads across the entire Front Range, southwest Colorado and the central mountains are icy and snowpacked and high winds are making travel and snow removal difficult," the Colorado Department of Transportation said in a media release.

A stable regulatory environment makes it possible for energy developers to do business, two state legislators said at a luncheon Tuesday for a group of independent oil and natural-gas producers in the West.

City Council members voted unanimously Jan. 23 to continue a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, within city limits to for oil and gas resources.

A similar scene played out in communities across the metro area Jan. 25. Drug task force agents, aided by local law enforcement agencies, swept into unassuming neighborhoods from Brighton to Breckenridge, seizing scores of marijuana plants as well dry marijuana, a bevy of weapons and large sums of U.S. and Iraqi currency.

Pediatric nurse practitioner Michele Hinneberg checks out Mya Castillo, 5, who complained of a sore throat and ear pain.

A coordinated raid of 25 suspected drug houses on Wednesday netted 2,749 marijuana plants, 147 pounds of marijuana, more than $278,500 in U.S. money, 15 million in Iraqi dinar, and 40 guns, according to officials.

The Commerce City Parks and Recreation Department's Youth and Teen Advisory Committee is spearheading this year's annual "Spread the Love" peanut butter and jelly food drive to benefit the Adams County Food Distribution Center.

BRIGHTON The new owner of the Hard Times bar in Commerce City faced tough questions Jan.

COMMERCE CITY, COLO. -- Rotational molder Rotonics Manufacturing Inc. is unable to pay its debts and officials have filed court papers seeking the transfer of its property to a trustee to sell or liquidate the company.

Colorado Springs police are seeking a robber who hit a man in the face with a baseball bat before escaping with his wallet.

Members of the Hells Lovers motorcycle club have been indicted on federal drug and gun charges.

Twelve members and associates of a motorcycle gang were arrested last Friday on a variety of charges.

Commerce City - as have other cities along the Front Range - have been wrestling with the issue of hydraulic fracturing over the several months.