Daily Camera Stories: News

Renewing Boulder's carbon tax is essential if the city is to keep making progress toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but a potential county sustainability tax could make it harder to get voters to say yes in November, Boulder City Council members said Tuesday.

The idea of requiring commercial properties to meet more stringent energy efficiency standards received a warm reception Tuesday night from the Boulder City Council during a study session on energy and climate issues.

Boulder's Naropa University has chosen a familiar face to be its next president: Charles G. Lief, chairman of the school's board, will take the helm in August. Lief -- a nonprofit executive, entrepreneur and lawyer -- has deep roots with the Buddhist-inspired university, helping found it in 1974.

ERIE -- Red Hawk Elementary School has been awarded a $25,000 grant for its fitness program. The school is one of nine winners of the national Active Schools Acceleration Project's Innovation Competition, which First Lady Michelle Obama and ChildObesity180 launched in February.

On May 16, Stefan Griebel and Jason Wells, also of Boulder, set an extraordinary speed record on The Naked Edge (5.11b, 460 feet), one of Eldo's most famous routes -- and one that takes most climbers at least half a day to ascend.

Hygiene's Colorado Horse Rescue has suspended an effort to exterminate prairie dogs on its land until Boulder County can approve a new plan by the nonprofit organization for revegetating about 35 acres of its property.

Trader Joe's planned store at Boulder's Twenty Ninth Street mall will be more than twice the size of the former Applebee's restaurant it's replacing, but will have at least 14 fewer parking spaces, according to initial site plans the grocer filed with the city.

A Denver man accused of stealing handguns, badges and computer equipment from the home of a Boulder County sheriff's deputy whom he was in a relationship with is now being charged in the 2010 burglary of another Boulder deputy he also was in a relationship with, according to court records.

BOULDER -- A former Boulder County deputy accused of Internet sexual exploitation of girls as young as 11 will be allowed to visit with his 6-year-old son under supervision, a Boulder District judge ruled Tuesday afternoon.

A small group of mothers and children from Erie marched into the building that houses Encana Corp.'s Denver headquarters Tuesday to present a petition signed by 21,000 people demanding that the energy giant forgo a planned natural gas drilling site near elementary schools and an adjoining neighborhood.

BOULDER -- Boulder County commissioners on Tuesday approved recommendations intended to provide relief to the annual parking problems and traffic congestion at the popular Hessie Trailhead on Fourth of July Road near Nederland and Eldora.

The high temperature in Boulder this afternoon peaked at 89 degrees, just barely breaking the previous record of 88 set in 1932, according to local meteorologist Matt Kelsch. Wednesday, though, will see temperatures top out in the mid-70s.

Boulder police today released a sketch and are asking for community help in locating a suspect accused of running off with a laptop stolen from a customer Wednesday while he sat at Foolish Craig's Café in Boulder.

Police arrested Thomas Langsfeld, 21, Daniel Pittenger, 19, and Claire Tabolt, 23, on suspicion of possession of burglary tools -- a class five felony -- and criminal mischief. Langsfeld also faces charges of possession of less than two ounces of marijuana and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia.

BOULDER -- It's illegal to sell or set off fireworks anywhere in unincorporated Boulder County, under a measure county commissioners approved Tuesday morning.

A rash of mailbox break-ins over the weekend at Boulder's downtown post office has led to a significant reduction in the number of hours residents can retrieve their mail, temporarily knocking out late night and Sunday access to the building's lobby.

Clif Harald, the executive director of the Boulder Economic Council, will serve as the Boulder Chamber of Commerce's interim CEO as the local business organization conducts a search for a new chief executive.

When the Boulder Planning Board gave its blessing to Avery Brewing Co.'s new brewery plans this week, it not only put the Boulder brewer one step closer to breaking ground, but it also gave local hot-air balloonists a firmer timetable to find a new launching pad.

A first-of-its-kind commercial supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station following a successful liftoff early Tuesday, opening a new era of dollar-driven spaceflight.

Possible record-breaking temperatures could soar into the mid-90s today, according to the National Weather Service.