Six years after Covid shut down classrooms, anxiety rates among children have not returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to psychologists at Children’s Hospital Colorado, and youth are seeking more mental health support than ever before.
Schools and community organizations across Denver and Aurora are seeing more families who need help putting food on the table this holiday season. The outpouring of support has come in different ways, from students volunteering, creative canned food drives, and some neighborly competition.
The swimmer paused at the side of the pool, caught her breath and eyeballed her time. As her teammates gathered to celebrate their shared victory, Lila Heskin, an eighth grader at McAuliffe International School, pulled herself out of the pool. Before she stood for a round of hugs, Lila attached her prosthetic leg.
Jonathan Guffey sat in the back corner of the Tattered Cover store at Stanley Marketplace reading his new book to a group of excited listeners who waited to raise their hands and ask the author questions. Story time is a semiweekly event at the store, but the storyteller is not usually a 9-year-old author.
White Cane Day, established on October 15,1964, is celebrated across the country, including at the Anchor Center for Blind Children in northeast Denver.
“Tired,” was the one-word response from Conrad Robinson after he finished his 100th climb on Saturday at the Übergrippen Indoor Climbing Crag in Central Park.
With the news Friday that the Trump administration plans to release all of the federal education funds that it has withheld from states since July 1, Lake County School District Superintendent Kate Bartlett said it feels like she’s emerging from a time machine.
Team Venezuela looks like most other youth baseball teams playing in the Lil’ Bombers League. What sets them apart is what it took for them to get here.
On a chilly January morning at the 2025 National Western Stock Show (NWSS) in Denver, students...
The rain cleared and the Central Park Synchro team took their skills to the water during a showcase event in late May.
On a recent Saturday morning, a group of 15 Denver teens listened as emergency medical technicians talked about what it feels like to be the first on the scene of a car crash—especially when it involves young people.
Even as some schools and school districts around the nation have gutted their Black history studies, students at Swigert International School marked February as Black History Month “by celebrating the assets and beauty of Black culture,” says third grade teacher Lindsay Edge.