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While Colorado Parks and Wildlife is prohibited from taking a stance on ballot initiatives, a group of the agency’s employees is speaking out as Proposition 127 — a measure that would ban the hunting of mountain lions, bobcats and lynx — heads toward a vote in November. The Colorado Wildlife Employees Protective Association board signed a resolution on Oct.

The Nuggets have locked up their core four. Aaron Gordon is signing a four-year, $133 million extension that will keep him under contract in Denver through the 2028-29 season if he so chooses, league sources confirmed to The Denver Post. ESPN’s Shams Charania initially reported the news. Gordon, 29, had a player option looming in his current contract that would have given him the choice to become a free agent next offseason.

BOULDER — It’s a new-look team this season, but the bar remains the same for CU women’s basketball. Coming off three straight NCAA Tournament appearances and consecutive Sweet 16 trips, the Buffs have 10 fresh faces on the roster with the season set to begin on Sunday. JR Payne, in her ninth year at the helm, believes the Buffs have the firepower to get back to the tournament once again coming off CU’s third straight 20-win season that featured three victories over Top 10 opponents. “We have better depth than we’ve ever had, we’re longer than we’ve ever been, and we’re a very experienced group, even if that’s not experience here at Colorado,” Payne said.

The 18-year-old man fatally shot by Aurora police early Sunday morning was beating his mother with a gun and holding her hostage in an apartment before he began shooting at police, Aurora Police Department Chief Todd Chamberlain said at a Monday briefing. Two residents in the apartment in the 1900 block of South Vaughn Way called 911 at about 11:15 p.m.

The Nuggets aren’t overly alarmed by their preseason, but they’re not mincing words about it, either. That includes their three-time MVP center. Nikola Jokic, asked where Denver still needs to improve in its final days of practice before the season, responded with a simple and blunt “everything.” “I think we didn’t play the preseason how we’re supposed to be playing,” Jokic said Monday.

HENDERSON, Nev. — Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Aidan O’Connell is expected to be out four to six weeks with a broken thumb, a person close to the situation said Monday. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the Raiders have not made an announcement. The person also said the injury to O’Connell, expected to be placed on injured reserve, wasn’t as bad as originally feared because of the location of the break in his throwing hand.