The Associated Press

One of the biggest stories in the NHL this season has been the increase in viewers in the league’s first year of its television contracts with ESPN and TNT. The league is also seeing unparalleled growth in female and younger fans that should have a big impact for years to come.

Baker has been with the governing body since 2005 in a variety of roles. He took over as acting executive director in late 2020 before assuming the job on a full-time basis last July.

Frontier’s move was the latest gambit in a fight between Frontier and JetBlue to see who gets the nation’s largest discount airline.

The Cup was all shined up and in the building, too.

Friday’s outcome overturning Roe v. Wade is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.

The Colorado Avalanche got a key player back with the return of Nazem Kadri for Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final against the Tampa Bay Lightning. And it couldn’t have come at a better time for the Avs. Kadri scored in overtime and the Avs beat Tampa Bay 3-2 on Wednesday night to move within a victory of dethroning the two-time defending champion Lightning.

CPR Staff confirmed the Colorado official threatened by a Nebraska man was Secretary of State Jena Griswold. Travis Ford, 42, pleaded guilty in Denver federal court to sending threats to Griswold on social media.

Raising the stakes again in the bidding war over the nation’s biggest budget airline, JetBlue said Monday that it offered $33.50 per share, or $2 per share more than its last bid two weeks ago.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Colorado Avalanche’s Cale Makar took the Norris Trophy for the league’s best defenseman on Tuesday.

A pair of Colorado residents, Joseph Gray of Colorado Springs and Kim Dobson of Eagle, repeated as winners of the 61st annual Mount Washington Road Race.

Authorities say two people died in separate river accidents in western Colorado.

The National Hockey League brought in a sign language interpreter for Commissioner Gary Bettman’s annual news conference at the Stanley Cup Final. It’s the first time the NHL has had a news conference translated into American Sign Language.

The family of a Texas woman who died after falling from a chairlift at a small Colorado ski resort as she was riding up with her two young daughters has settled a wrongful death lawsuit.

Colorado Avalanche defenseman Jack Johnson played in 1,000 NHL games before making his first Stanley Cup Final. It took him that long to steadily chip away at his college degree as well. Johnson finished his general studies degree from the University of Michigan this spring.

Denver’s Street Enforcement Team is the city’s latest effort to impose its controversial camping ban, which makes it illegal for people to sleep on city streets, parks and sidewalks. The goal is to remove police from enforcing the ban and free officers up to work on higher-level crimes. But since it started working in September, the team hasn’t given out any tickets.

Yellowstone National Park will partially reopen at 8 a.m. Wednesday, after catastrophic flooding destroyed bridges and roads and drove out tourists. The Park Service announced Saturday that visitors will once again be allowed on the park’s southern loop, under a license plate system designed to manage the crowds.