LONE TREE, Colo. (KDVR) — People all over the country will be watching the College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday when the University of Michigan takes on the University of Washington. "It’s obviously the biggest game of the year," Drake Nugent, #60 and center for the University of Michigan football team, said. "I just try and stay calm ..read more

DENVER (KDVR) -- After a tornado ripped through Highlands Ranch Thursday afternoon, one neighborhood didn't let the storm slow it down. The Timberline Ridge subdivision decided it was not going to let the damage and trauma of the tornado keep it from canceling “Food Truck Friday.” The subdivision's home owners association vice president, Jolanta Deutsch, was glad the community came together to help each other with cleanup and keeping each other's spirits up ..read more

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (KDVR) -- It was a busy day in the Northridge neighborhood of Highlands Ranch. Homeowners, friends, family and tree-cutting services spent the day cutting and removing debris left by the tornado. Friday morning life was anything but normal. It is not often a tornado comes to town. Schools, homes, vehicles and trees, lots of trees, were ripped from the earth like dandelions. In the Northridge neighborhood is a tale of two homes. One with extensive tree damage, the other unscathed ..read more

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (KDVR) — A Goffin's cockatoo named Simon was stolen from Neptune's Tropical Fish on Feb. 17. The Douglas County Sheriff's Office and Metro Denver Crime Stoppers are working to find the suspects responsible for taking the 31-year-old cockatoo. Simon the missing cockatoo (Metro Denver Crime Stoppers) Simon is described as white with pink around her beak and mouth, along with yellow in the back of her feathers. A reward of $1,000 was initially offered for the bird’s safe return. Then the reward was increased to up to $2,500. Now the reward has been raised to up to $5,000. M ..read more

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (KDVR) — The owners of Neptune's Tropical Fish in Highlands Ranch are asking for everyone to keep an eye out online for their beloved 31-year-old Goffin's cockatoo that was stolen during a burglary. “We just want our bird back, no questions asked," Sharon Sullivan, the owner of the shop, said. Sullivan said she bought the bird named Simon back in 1993 for $1,500. She said Simon lived full-time at the store and was the star of the shop. “I have people who come in that don’t even have fish, they come in to play with my bird," Sullivan said ..read more

DENVER (KDVR) -- The Douglas County Sheriff's Office says a Highlands Ranch stabbing suspect was arrested in Kansas on Sunday morning. The sheriff's office said deputies responded to Target at 1950 E. County Line Rd. in Highlands Ranch on Saturday around 12:18 p.m. for a reported stabbing. Deputies said the caller, who was a woman, said her husband stabbed her, then stole her car and left ..read more

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (KDVR) — A heavily involved house fire in Douglas County has left one family displaced before the holidays. According to South Metro Fire Rescue, a neighbor called 911 early Monday morning when they saw that the front of the house was on fire ..read more

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (KDVR) -- Lockheed Martin engineers in Colorado were thrilled to watch the launch of the Artemis I mission from Kennedy Space Center in Florida Wednesday.  "Oh my gosh it was so surreal, such an exciting and historic day," said Heather McKay, the Systems Engineer Manager at Lockheed Martin in Highlands Ranch. She watched from Colorado with a great sense of pride.  "I personally worked on the propulsion system and the launch support system, that safety system. Lockheed Martin in Denver plays a huge role in the Artemis program. We're the prime contractor to NASA ..read more

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (KDVR) —There are a little less than five days left until the FIFA World Cup kicks off in Qatar, and one quirky and beloved soccer coach is writing personal messages to each U.S. Men's National Team player. The U.S. will have a team in the World Cup for the first time in eight years, and thousands are throwing their support behind the team before they head across the Atlantic Ocean. In a marketing campaign that has gone viral across the county, a fictional soccer coach with unrelenting optimism and a knack for bringing people together has penned a personal message to a l ..read more

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (KDVR) – A large party held Friday night ended with three teenage girls crashing into the front of a Highlands Ranch home after a police pursuit. According to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, they received a noise complaint around 9:45 p.m. regarding a party that was being held on the 9000 block of Miners Place. A large officer response was sent to the party after reports of shots being fired also came into dispatch. As this was going on, a white Mercedes fled the scene at a high rate of speed which instigated officers to initiate a pursuit. A Nest camera captured f ..read more