September 2026
Trump’s state dinner for Xi features sea bass and a long list of tech titans
WASHINGTON | A tech-heavy guest list, the fashion choices of those on it, who sat where and what was on the menu marked the softer — often and glitzier — details of diplomacy as Donald Trump threw a Thursday night state dinner honoring China’s leader Xi Jinping. The event featured a cavalcade of billionaires, Washington […]
Colorado power grid upgrades part of $2B push to prevent blackouts, address data center worries
AURORA | Colorado will receive $250 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to upgrade a key power transmission connection between Colorado and Texas, state and federal energy officials announced from Aurora yesterday. The grant is part of a U.S. Energy Department project spending about $2 billion to try to squeeze more electricity out of […]
Football: Aurora’s 2026 Week 5 schedule
Schedule for Aurora teams in Week 5 of the 2026 prep football season, which begins Thursday with three games involving Aurora area teams.
Football: Aurora’s 2026 Week 5 scoreboard, schedule
Scoreboard and schedule for Aurora teams in Week 5 of the 2026 prep football season, which began with three games Thursday.
Detainees recount stories of alleged medical neglect, abuses at Aurora GEO ICE immigration jail
AURORA | Immigrant rights advocates gathered outside the ICE detention facility Wednesday night in Aurora to hear accounts of alleged abuse from people detained inside the center. The press conference and protest focused on copies of complaints alleging civil rights violations, medical neglect, and lack of access to adequate nutrition by people who were held […]
Drones could replace fireworks at Aurora’s Independence Day festival in 2027
AURORA | Aurora’s Fourth of July Spectacular might look a little different next year as the city council could switch away from the traditional fireworks display to a drone show. On Thursday, council members at the September parks and recreation committee meeting voiced support for forgoing a fireworks display and instead having a drone show […]
Court finds Children’s Hospital in Aurora met order to reinstate gender-affirming care
This story was first published at Colorado Newsline. DENVER | A Denver judge shut down a motion for contempt against Children’s Hospital Colorado that alleged it was not in compliance with an order that required the hospital to reinstate gender-affirming care for minors. Children’s Hospital Colorado stopped offering gender-affirming care to minors in January due […]
Israel’s Netanyahu says at UN that attacking Iran was ‘one of the easiest decisions’ he’s ever made
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told world leaders Thursday that attacking Iran “was one of the easiest decisions I’ve ever had to make” and denounced as “moral cowards” a mass of delegates who walked out of the U.N. General Assembly when he took the podium to speak. “In defending itself, Israel is also also defending […]
Charges dropped against four protesters who blocked Centennial ICE office in July
AURORA | Four protesters that were arrested in July for blocking an entrance outside of an ICE administrative office in Centennial will have their charges dropped, prosecutors said Thursday. In a press release, the 18th Judicial District said there was probable cause to arrest the protesters, but charges will not move forward because the protesters’ […]
Aurora prep sports schedule, 9.24.26
The Aurora prep sports schedule for Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, includes competition for Aurora area teams in football, softball, boys soccer, girls volleyball, girls flag football, boys tennis and boys golf.