Niwot News

Can you tell the difference between a plastic shoe and a luxury sports car? Porsche, the famed German car company, is entangled in a legal spat with Crocs, the maker of rubber shoes.

Thirteen elementary schools in the St. Vrain Valley School District did not make adequate yearly progress this year, up from five in 2008, according to the Colorado Department of Education.

For more than four years, Fred McGehan has been a mentor, friend, role model and father figure for 14-year-old David Amaya.

BMNN wrote: on Nov. 03, 2009: Pete "Dr. Banjo" Wernick will offer several scholarships for his 2010 Winter Banjo Camps to deserving banjo pickers who would otherwise have difficulty affording it, thanks to some generous folks including Stelling Banjo and the Colorado Bluegrass Music Society .

Sandi Searls ran for the St. Vrain Valley School District Board of Education in 2001 in part to change the math curriculum.

Joseph Cardillo, accused of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl and drinking her urine, testified during his trial today.

Boulder County should come up with the millions of dollars needed to replace crumbling pavement on many of the roads in 100 rural residential subdivisions, a Niwot resident told county commissioners during a Thursday budget hearing.

The Boulder County Sheriff's Office is investigating a report by a 10-year-old girl that she and her 1-year-old brother were approached while playing in a Niwot park by a woman who demanded that they get into her van.

LYONS - Fossil Ridge High School cross country runners and coaches had mixed emotions Thursday following the Class 4A Region 2 championships.

Colorado lawmakers and residents should look at the state's research universities as revenue-generators, not expenditures, two state university officials said Thursday.

A group of CSU engineering professors has received a $917,000 grant to help get a product to market that would keep firefighters cool inside their heavy fire-proof gear, an issue that's nationally regarded as one of the biggest concerns firefighters face.

Julie Artz, of Lyons, her daughter Lily, at left, and her son Gabriel hold some vegetables from the family's root cellar in their unheated basement.

An iconic reptile image soon will grace a shop on Boulder's iconic walking mall.

Firefighters may soon get some protection from dangerous heat stress thanks to research at Colorado State University.

For the list of delinquent property owners and other information, go to bouldercounty.org/treas and click on "Tax Lien Sale Information." People who are delinquent on their property taxes can still pay, with a late fee.

St. Vrain Valley School District Board of Education candidate Alex Sharp on Thursday called on the district's teachers to change their union leadership and vote on the proposed contract.

Jesters Dinner Theatre presents 'Cell Block Terror,' a haunted house open 7:30 to 11 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in October at the theater, 224 Main St.

The Boulder Bach Festival will offer auditions for new singers from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Atonement Lutheran Church, 685 Inca Parkway.

Longmont United Hospital still takes charity cases. But from now on, they'd better be local.

Boulder Labs Inc. has received a $750,000 phase 2 Small Business Technology Transfer grant from the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.