View snapshots of history from the Rocky Mountain Arsenal to 1966 suburbia life in Englewood, Colorado.
Check in with our Archive Picture of the Day photo gallery to see some pictures from The Denver Post’s past.
Check in with our Archive Picture of the Day photo gallery to see some pictures from The Denver Post’s past.
Forty year ago, the Eisenhower Tunnel — the highest vehicle tunnel in the world, at 11,155 feet — opened in Colorado.
The tunnel, dug directly through the Continental Divide, eliminated the 9.5-mile drive over Loveland Pass.
Eisenhower tunnel facts
• Cost: $116.9 million westbound; $144.9 million eastbound. (In today’s dollars, the cost to build one bore would be $1 to $1.5 billion).
• Travel width: 26 feet (two 13 foot lanes) each direction.
• Ventilation fans: 16 westbound, 12 eastbound. Each fan is 10 feet, 6 inches in diameter.
• Highest 24 hour traffic count: 50,918 on Aug. 2, 2009.
• Highest 1 hour traffic count: 4,708 on March 9, 2007.
(Source: The Denver Post)
Denver Broncos wide receiver Brandon Stokley pulls in the Broncos’ second touchdown of the game in the first quarter. The Denver Broncos play the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Divisional playoff game at Sports Authority Field at Mile High, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. (Photo by Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post)
YOUR PHOTOS: Rocky the Bulldog is ready for the game in his ball cap (submitted by reader Renee C.). Broncos fans are really showing their colors in advance of Denver’s playoff game with the Baltimore Ravens Saturday. See the full gallery or submit your own.
A student who attracted national attention when her provocative yearbook photo was rejected by the Durango High School yearbook staff earlier this year was arrested at a party at her home Sunday night, the Durango Herald reported Monday. Get the full story here.
Photos provided by the La Plata County Sheriff’s Office.
11: 17 a.m. - Aurora Police have advised media to stand behind their vehicles. They are confident in the safety of the perimeter, but are advising this extra precaution.
11:35 a.m. - Expecting an airhorn blast in 5-10 minutes; and then a detonation.
11:40 a.m. - Peoria St. is closed.
11:44 - The controller detonation has happened.
11:47 a.m. - Detonation was successful. Peoria is now reopened.
The living room of the 800-square-foot apartment is littered with about 30 softball-sized improvised explosive devices, according to a bomb technician at the scene.
Bomb technicians used a water bottle device to disable the “9D trip device” in the apartment, according to a source at the scene. They sent the device in with a robot, the robot dropped the water device and then retreated.
BREAKING: The raging High Park fire has jumped the Poudre River at Stevens Gulch and is racing up a drainage toward the Glacier View Meadows neighborhood.
At 5:15 p.m., Larimer County issued an immediate evacuation order for the Glacier View Meadows neighborhood.
The High Park fire has now burned more than 52,000 acres northwest of Fort Collins, fire managers said. (Photo by Karl Gehring, The Denver Post)
Silo and Barn at Sunset.
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golden hour in steamboat, colorado
Sunrise over Manitou Springs after several days of below-freezing temperatures.
Garden of the Gods
Pikes Peak, once again.
Echo Lake, Colorado
