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The Sentinel launches personalized 2026 midterm election guides for Aurora area voters
AURORA | It’s time. The 2026 Midterm Election ballot is ready for your judgments, and the Sentinel is ready to offer you straight news and details about the election from the candidates themselves. This year, the Sentinel is offering readers a close look at ballot candidates and issues customized just for each address. Just enter […]
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Inflation, loss of SNAP benefits add to struggles families face to eat, Hickenlooper days
AURORA | Nonprofit representatives and local grocery market owners told Sen. John Hickenlooper at a roundtable discussion this week that the rising cost of food and loss of federal benefits are straining local communities. Earlier this year, federal legislation cut funding for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, which help low-income families and individuals pay for […]
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Your ballot question vote will affect Colorado’s $1.6 billion budget deficit. Want to see how?
AURORA | How would you fix Colorado’s budget gap if you were in charge? A new interactive simulation lets Sentinel readers see how their votes on three statewide ballot measures could affect Colorado’s projected $1.6 billion budget shortfall, and then decide for themselves where to cut spending or invest more. The Colorado Tradeoffs project was […]
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Kyle Connor scores twice, Jets beat Avalanche 3-2 for 3rd straight victory
WINNIPEG, Manitoba | Kyle Connor broke a tie with a minute left with his second goal of game, Stuart Skinner made 32 saves and the Winnipeg Jets beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-2 on Wednesday night for their third straight victory. Mark Scheifele sent a pass from near the boards across to Connor charging the net […]
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Explosions heard in Saudi capital and Riyadh airport, and other Mideast developments
Several explosions were heard in the Saudi capital on Thursday, including one at the Riyadh airport that halted flights, a witness said. Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis claimed the blast came from one of their ballistic missiles. Meanwhile, Britain says it demoted its consulate in east Jerusalem to a mission and that 20 diplomats will leave the […]
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Hurricane Simon forecast to get much stronger as it heads to Mexico’s Pacific coast
MIAMI | Hurricane Simon was headed toward part of Mexico’s Pacific coast Friday and forecast to get much stronger. U.S. forecasters issued a hurricane warning for parts of the central and southwest coast, where hurricane-force winds were expected within 36 hours. Simon had maximum sustained winds of 145 kph (90 mph) early Friday and was […]
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In ‘Tenzing,’ the Everest-scaling Sherpa Tenzing Norgay finally gets the spotlight
TORONTO | The first image ever taken of a human being standing atop Mount Everest was of Tenzing Norgay. When he and Edmund Hillary reached the summit of the world’s highest mountain on May 29, 1953, one of the first things Hillary did was take out his camera and aim it at his fellow climber, […]
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From HBO Max to ‘Harry Potter,’ here’s what’s now under the Skydance umbrella
Skydance-owned Paramount on Tuesday closed its $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, ushering in a new Hollywood giant. Skydance Corp. emerges from one of the biggest mergers ever — $111 billion including debt — in the media and entertainment industry. Here is a list of notable films, shows and franchises in the new Skydance […]
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Movie Review: Falling rocks, avalanches, heroism and greed converge in ‘The Last First: Winter K2’
“He has to go and live on the edge,” explains Lina Móey about her husband, the Icelandic mountaineer John Snorri Sigurjonsson, in “The Last First: Winter K2.” And she means it literally: He has to go live on the edge of a mountain. In this case, it’s the most forbidding mountain on the planet: K2, […]
All you need to know to how vote in the 2026 Midterm Election
AURORA | Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3, but registered voters in Colorado will start receiving mail-in ballots after Oct. 10. Colorado began statewide vote by mail in 2013, although some counties adopted mail ballots before that. We know voters and potential voters will have questions about how voter registration works, how mail-in ballots work, […]