Boulder County News

A Longmont man accused of using an online chat room to solicit a mother and her 6-year-old daughter for sex asked a Boulder County District Court judge on Friday for a new public defender.

The first federal analysis of county-by-county obesity rates shows Boulder County in Colorado is one of the nation's thinnest.

Art is sometimes overlooked as a popular holiday gift, but a variety of locally produced creations are available in Boulder County shops, exhibits and galleries - and not just paintings that cost thousands of dollars.

On Tuesday, the Boulder City Council directed two city delegates to the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties to: support "green" technology; advocate for local government's involvement in national carbon-emission reduction programs; acknowledge the need for alternative approaches to carbon-emission reduction in developing countries; ...

Swine flu vaccination clinics are being held in Boulder and Longmont on Friday. Vaccines will only be administered to Boulder County residents who are in high risk categories, which includes pregnant women, children between 6 months and 4 years old, children between 5 and 18 years with chronic health conditions, caregivers for children younger than ...

The parents of a Colorado boy who was thought to have floated away in a silver helium balloon last month are expected to plead guilty to criminal charges in a Larimer County, Colo., court Friday.

Sophie Childress, 4, gets support from her mother, Jennifer, while getting an H1N1 flu vaccine from Alan Mason at Rocky Mountain Urgent Care in Longmont on Friday morning.

A fast-moving storm was dumping heavy snow on Boulder and Broomfield counties Friday afternoon, just in time for the evening rush hour.

A 63-year-old man arrested in April after a 911 caller said the man pointed a handgun at him was acquitted of felony menacing and prohibited use of a weapon earlier this month.

The Boulder Valley School District says fewer elementary school students are eating hot lunches after the district spend hundreds of thousands to give their cafeterias a healthy makeover.

On Friday morning, the waiting room of Rocky Mountain Urgent Care's Boulder clinic was packed with pregnant women and small children.

A district attorney in Colorado has decided no criminal charges are warranted against the sheriff who disclosed that child welfare workers were involved in the inquiry in the runaway balloon case.

The Boulder County coroner has identified the woman whose body was found Monday afternoon near Boulder Falls as Maisie Alison Rasmussen, 20.

Volunteer Kristi Kilgore takes a voter's ballot Tuesday at a drive-by drop-off spot in front of the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder's Office in Boulder.

The Boulder County Clerk and Recorder's Office expects an overall 40 percent countywide turnout in this year's local elections, according to spokeswoman Jessie Cornelius.

Longmont police say there are two individuals from Fort Collins who may have been sexual assault victims of Rocky Mountain High School counselor Brad Boda who have not yet come forward to report their stories to Fort Collins police detectives.

For full Boulder County election results, visit www.bouldercounty.org . Initial results show Boulder County's open space ballot issue could be headed for defeat.

Boulder County voters were in no mood for taking on big chunks of bonded debt. Early results showed the county's ballot issue 1A, which would authorize $50 million in bonds for open space acquisition, was failing 54 percent to 46 percent; and issue 1B, to issue $85 million in bonds to finance green-energy installations, was trailing 53 percent to ...

It appeared Tuesday night that voters had authorized Boulder County to issue up to $6.1 million in low-interest bonds to finance energy-conservation improvements to county government buildings and properties.

A man drops his ballot off in front of the Denver Election Commission on Nov. 3, 2009, and thanks election worker Carissa Marsh for standing outside and collecting the drive-up ballots Last-minute ballots streamed into county clerks' offices around the state Tuesday, but many counties still expected overall turnout to be well below 50 percent.