Friday, June 26, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 2022, the Colorado Avalanche defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning four games to two to win their third Stanley Cup, ending a championship dry spell of more than 20 years. For the first time since Colorado’s wolf reintroduction program began in 2023, a collared gray wolf […]

Thursday, June 25, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 2012, sparks from a motorist’s flat tire ignited the Last Chance Fire near the small town of Last Chance. Yale just tracked over 11,000 seniors for more than a decade, and what they found breaks every rule you’ve been told about getting older. Nearly half […]

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 1895, Jack Dempsey was born in Manassa, a town south of Alamosa. Also known as Kid Blackie and the Manassa Mauler, Dempsey reigned as American world heavyweight boxing champion from 1919 to 1926, earning a reputation as one of the era’s most iconic professional fighters. […]

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 2023, Casa Bonita, known as the “Disneyland of Mexican restaurants,” reopened in Lakewood under the ownership of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Why is everyone suddenly arguing about tipping? The coffee counter, the takeout window, the screen that flips around before you’ve […]

Monday, June 22, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 1852, the U.S. Army established Fort Massachusetts—the first U.S. Army fort in what would become Colorado—in the San Luis Valley, then part of the New Mexico Territory. A runaway sprinter van destroyed the historic “Leaving Colorful Colorado” sign at the Colorado-Utah border over the weekend. […]

Sunday, June 21, 2026 Happy Father’s Day! On this day in 2023, 37 tornadoes touched down across Colorado’s eastern plains, the most ever confirmed in the state in a single day. One slow-moving supercell over Washington County produced 27 of them. In case you missed it, this week on The Flyover Podcast, Ayla Brown broke […]

Saturday, June 20, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 1859, Horace Tabor arrived in Denver from Kansas, having joined the Colorado gold rush. His prospecting, merchandising, and grubstaking in early mining camps and Leadville helped him achieve phenomenal financial success. The government quietly changed three retirement rules this past year, and the shifts drew […]

Friday, June 19, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 1874, President Ulysses S. Grant reinstated Edward M. McCook as the seventh territorial governor of Colorado. Denver is the Mile High City—but where in the city can you go to be exactly one mile above sea level? As we report in our Top Stories, the […]

Thursday, June 18, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 1912, track and field athlete Glenn Morris was born. Raised in rural southeastern Colorado, Morris would go on to set world records when he won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The owner of daily Denver newspaper The Denver Post has agreed to […]

Tuesday, June 16, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 1859, prospectors established Golden City, a mining camp at the base of the Rockies. The city would become a key economic and political hub—even serving briefly as the territorial capital—before changing its name to the City of Golden in 1872. We’re excited to debut a […]