Amy Wadas

1 month ago | denver7.com | Amy Wadas

WHEAT RIDGE, Colo.— A first-of-its-kind apartment complex in Colorado with the goal of helping people achieve lasting drug and alcohol recovery is officially up and running now. It’s called Sober Apartment Living, or SAL. Craig Zoellner and his wife are the brains behind SAL, which stemmed from their daughter’s recovery journey. The nonprofit has two locations: one in Scottsdale, Arizona, which has been around about six years, and the newest in Wheat Ridge.

2 months ago | denver7.com | Micah Smith |Amy Wadas

DENVER — After 11 years of legal cannabis recreational use in Colorado, just a little more than 3% of cannabis business owners identify as Black, according to state data. One of those business owners is Wanda James, a CU Regent and owner of Simply Pure who opened her first dispensary with her husband in 2009, becoming the first Black dispensary owners in the United States. “Going back to 2009, cannabis was very different.

2 months ago | denver7.com | Amy Wadas

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Respiratory Syncytial Virus, or RSV, season is in full swing, according to doctors at Children’s Hospital Colorado, and can cause infections in the lungs and respiratory tract of both adults and children. The Fredrick family of Castle Rock is one of the many who has felt the impact of RSV. In November 2023, their youngest child had just turned 2 and they had to take her to the ER. A few weeks later, their oldest child also had to be hospitalized.

2 months ago | koaa.com | Amy Wadas

WELD COUNTY, Colo. — One of Weld County's oldest cold cases recently saw a massive step forward when human remains found near along a river west of Platteville were identified. The identification came more than 50 years after hunters reported finding skeletal remains from an area near the Saint Vrain River north of Highway 66 on Nov. 19, 1973. Investigators believed the remains belonged to a young woman, but had limited other information.

2 months ago | denver7.com | Amy Wadas

WELD COUNTY, Colo. — One of Weld County's oldest cold cases recently saw a massive step forward when human remains found near along a river west of Platteville were identified. The identification came more than 50 years after hunters reported finding skeletal remains from an area near the Saint Vrain River north of Highway 66 on Nov. 19, 1973. Investigators believed the remains belonged to a young woman, but had limited other information.