Since its founding in 2005, the Denver Cruiser Ride has sponsored bicycle rides in the Mile High City that doubled as rolling costume parties every Wednesday throughout the summer. But for 2017, DCR founder Brad Evans has announced that the weekly rides will be replaced with five monthly events. In the meantime, he’s launching two new projects: Bike City, a cycling advocacy group, and happy hour meetups called City Spark that he sees as a way to bring together veteran Cruisers, longtime residents and folks who’ve just moved to the area to build a larger and more cohesive community.

Kevin Edwards, a 59 year old from Boulder, has been identified as the man who died at Loveland Ski Area on April 28. Edwards, the fourteenth person to die as the result of an accident at a Colorado ski resort during the 2016-17 season, was a devoted athlete whose last Facebook post, shared five days before his death, testified to his love of the activity he was enjoying when he lost his life.

On the 2017 Best Places to Live rankings recently released by the Niche website, South Park Hill was named the top neighborhood in Denver, and one of the thirty finest in the entire United States.

What appears to be the first fatal accident on a Colorado waterway during the 2017 season happened yesterday, April 30. The thus-far-unidentified victim was a man taking part in a commercial rafting trip on the Arkansas River. The casualty is the first of its kind to have taken place in April over the past three years, a period that’s been particularly deadly in Colorado.

Carfentanil, an extremely powerful synthetic opioid best known as an elephant tranquilizer, has been linked to two heroin-related deaths in Colorado. But a local expert on addiction who’s recently helped treat patients who’ve used the substance says it could have played a role in even more fatal overdoses, thereby quietly contributing to the shocking rise of heroin deaths in Denver and Colorado as a whole.

Wendy Bergen, a former reporter with KCNC, the station now known as CBS4, died on Wednesday, April 26, following a brain aneurysm. Bergen’s television career ended in scandal after she was convicted of staging a dogfight for a 1990 report called “Blood Sport.” But according to KNUS talk-show host Peter Boyles, who was a friend of Bergen’s for thirty years, she used this personal disaster to fuel a post-TV life devoted to helping others in trouble.

A lawsuit claims that guards at a Colorado prison pepper-sprayed Muslim inmates gathering for a prayer service and later assaulted one of them in retaliation for his plans to pursue the matter in court. The attorney behind the suit calls the actions a hate crime and sees a connection between them and the type of rhetoric that currently emanates from the White House.

Many of the readers who responded to our recent post “Why It’s So Hard to Make a Living in Denver Despite Strong Economy” told us that costs in the Mile High City are putting a major squeeze on their pocketbooks. And indeed, Denver is currently among the twenty most expensive cities to live in North America as measured by updated price data for basic commodities in the area.