Douglas County News

Voters turned out in record numbers for the school-board election in Douglas County, electing four new members who had been endorsed by the Republican Party.

Denver-area real estate experts were happily surprised that a new report shows local apartment vacancy rates fell in the third quarter from the second period for the first time in the last 21 months, largely because of a decrease in local unemployment.

So, there was an election yesterday. What happened in Colorado? Denver voters rejected an initiative proposing mandatory car impoundment for driver's without licenses.

Jenny Hammond was a bright Douglas County teenager who wanted to see the United States and earn summer money when she went to upstate New York in 2003 as part of a crew selling magazine subscriptions, her mother said Friday.

A project that could net this upstart city 2,500 new homes and $45 million in taxes is causing headaches for Douglas County neighbors who worry that the building boom will increase traffic and decrease planned open space.

Budding high school journalist jacobrtaylor cut his teeth on some big news when an early snowstorm rolled through parts of the West.

Jennifer Hammond Bones found by hunters in a New York State park have been identified as an 18-year-old from Douglas County who went missing when she was selling magazine subscriptions in a trailer park in 2003.

Colorado Secretary of State Bernie Buescher got an earful Tuesday when election officials and voting reform advocates sat down to hash out proposed changes to rules governing the state's certification of voting equipment.

School board races are typically nonpartisan, but not this year in Douglas County.

Colorado state troopers suspect alcohol was involved in a deadly accident in a construction zone early Saturday morning.

One man is dead and another is seriously injured after a traffic accident in a construction zone on Colorado 470 in Douglas County.

The Republican endorsement of four candidates for Douglas County schools has turned what is normally a routine nonpartisan election into a pitched battle.

It's not true that elected school boards are unresponsive to their constituents.

A winter-like storm arrived Wednesday morning with rain turning to snow by 7:30 a.m. along the Front Range including metro Denver.

LHS band winners in Douglas County competition DOUGLAS COUNTY - The Loveland High School Crimson Regiment Marching Band was awarded the grand championship and all three caption awards at the Douglas County Marching Invitational Saturday in Castle Rock.

Ward II is lucky to have two well-qualified candidates to choose from in the upcoming election.

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. People with business in the Douglas County Courthouse on Monday, Oct.

Name: Donna Sapienza Race: Greeley City Council Ward II. Age: 61. Profession: Retired teacher for Douglas County in a K-8 school.

Maybe more so, since there are probably more cell phones per capita, and hormones run amok, in the wilds of Exurbia.

Dylan Klebold fires a sawed-off shotgun at a makeshift shooting range March 6, 1999 in Douglas County, CO in this image from video released by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department.