Wheat Ridge News

Animal guardians whose pets are getting into marijuana stashes and get sick shouldn't hide that fact from veterinarians, a Denver doctor says.

WHEAT RIDGE, Colo.- Colorado will increase mental health services with walk-in crisis centers and a 24-hour hotline in response to last summer's shootings at a suburban Denver movie theater.

Families walk around Crown Hill Lake at Crown Hill Park, which borders Lakewood and Wheat Ridge on Jan.

The Denver area's rich beer bar scene gets a unique addition with today's grand opening of Colorado Plus Brew Pub in Wheat Ridge , a 56-tap emporium that soon will feature its own beers brewed on a one-barrel system hidden away in the back.

Walmarts have been popping up all over the country in the last five years - 455 new stores, or a 13 percent increase.

The Colorado Plus Brew Pub will open on Monday, May 13, at 6995 West 38th Avenue in Wheat Ridge, with 56 Colorado craft beers on tap.

Colorado State Senator, Cheri Jahn, D-Wheat Ridge, debates HB13-1317, a bill that creates regulations for recreational marijuana on the Senate floor at the State Capitol on Tuesday, May 7, 2013.

Interested in learning more about how Colorado can become a No Kill shelter state? Attend No Kill Colorado 's May meeting this Thursday at 6:30 PM.

Small business owners and the National Federation of Independent Business are pinning their last best hope on killing an anti-discrimination bill with Gov.

Last fall, Wheat Ridge got their first brewery, finally checking that box to become a legit modern metro Denver neighborhood.

Snow starts to stick on a tulip, as Don Whetsel walks in the background, at Prospect Park in Wheat Ridge, May 1, 2013.

The Colorado State JO Tournament is being held this weekend, May 3-5, 2013, at the A1 Boxing Gym in Aurora, CO, 700 S. Buckley Road, 80017, 303-696-2694. Colorado LBC President Jeanne DePriest continues to ask for available MD's who can volunteer their time for amateur boxing events, that mission finally accomplished in time for the State JO's. Of ... (more)

Landscaper foreman Everton Allwood, left, from Swingle Lawn, Tree & Landscape Care, waters a spring snow crabapple that he and colleague Elijah Hannigan, right, just planted in a Denver backyard Friday.

State Senate Republicans made a final, two-day stand against a bill that would increase damage awards in discrimination lawsuits against Colorado's smallest businesses, but House Bill 1136 passed the upper legislative chamber Friday nevertheless and is now on its way to Gov.

Organizers of the inaugural South Denver Beer Festival next weekend at Litteton's Clement Park have dropped plans to pour beers from breweries in planning after state regulators questioned the legality.

A Colorado man made a chance connection with a Argentine silversmith that inspired him to send a piece of Colorado to become part of the new papacy, according to the Archdiocese of Denver.