Aurora
Aurora police investigate ‘teen takeover’ at Hoffman Heights shopping center
AURORA | Aurora police are investigating an apparent teen takeover of about 500 teenagers at the Hoffman Heights Shopping Center on Sunday that led to viral social media videos of crowds running through and disrupting local businesses. Around 1:30 p.m. Sunday, more than 70 police personnel responded to the shopping center to disperse the crowd, […]
Aurora seeks resident input on potential gas station buffer zones
AURORA | The city is seeking feedback from residents over whether to implement gas station buffers to prevent new developments from locating near residences or congregating near one another. Comments can be submitted online at EngageAurora.org/GasStations through Oct. 31 on four different buffer proposals. The proposed options are a quarter-mile or half-mile buffer around existing […]
Aurora lawmakers consider limits on food trucks to ease complaints of crowding, storage
AURORA | City lawmakers are divided over potential food truck regulations because of the disparate impacts the mobile eateries have depending on which part of the city they’re in. On the eastern side of Aurora, Ward 2 has a lot of new development planned, but it does not have prospects for new grocery stores or […]
Family struggled to locate Aurora ICE detainee from Washington released into the wrong state
This story was first published at Colorado Newsline. DENVER | Rudy Villeda Mejía, who spent just over four months in immigration detention in Aurora, is home with his family in northern Washington state. His journey home was drawn out, as his family and attorney struggled to locate him when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released […]
Sentinel Colorado wins state journalism awards for public service, social justice, editorials
AURORA | Sentinel Colorado took home five statewide journalism awards Saturday, competing against the largest media organizations in the state. Sentinel journalists were tabbed for the Colorado Press Association’s coveted Public Service award, this year for a series of stories, opinion columns and house editorials focusing on abuses of the public by the Aurora Police […]
SENTINEL MUSE: Aurora Pride festival leads a busy weekend of shows, fun and events
Aurora Pride 2026 at Winged Melody Park Aurora Pride returns as a large-scale celebration of LGBTQ+ culture, identity and community, with the 2026 festival moving to Winged Melody Park at The Aurora Highlands. The free, all-ages event brings together live music, drag performers, DJs, artists, craft vendors, food and family activities. Aurora Pride is partnering […]
Sable Altura Fire Rescue opens new Sage Ridge substation in Watkinds, expanding coverage
AURORA | Sable Altura Fire Rescue opened a new substation at the Sage Ridge Supportive Residential Community Campus in Watkins to support faster emergency response times in the surrounding area. The substation is being opened in partnership with Arapahoe County and the Colorado Department of Local Affairs. In a press release announcing the substation, Sable […]
PERRY: Reality doesn’t care whether you believe. Science, however, needs you now
Here in Colorado, and across the country, we’ve got to get our OCD on to save the planet. Back when I was in the first grade, when we hunted wooly mammoths for fun, a few of us got to sit in on the science class with the big kids. We made thermometers with straws, water […]
Aurora lawmakers advance rules on data center water use and locations near neighborhoods
AURORA | Aurora lawmakers moved forward some proposed data center regulations and plan to bring forward even more, including a residential buffer requirement. At Monday’s study session, city lawmakers unanimously supported advancing two regulations, which address data center water usage and zoning, to future council meetings for a vote. One proposed regulation would ban evaporative […]
Bennett man arrested in connection with Aurora home invasion
AURORA | A Bennet man was arrested yesterday after investigators linked him to an Aurora home invasion where he is accused of binding a man face down, stealing guns and other items before leaving the victim tied up. Police were called to a home in the 900 block of Ouray Street at about 1 p.m. […]