The new baseball season began in South Korea on Tuesday with the crack of the bat and the sound of the ball smacking into the catcher’s mitt echoing around empty stadiums.

American sports fans starved for live games may find a measure of salvation from an unlikely source: South Korean baseball. The Korea Baseball Organization season begins Tuesday, and ESPN has announced plans for live broadcasts of its games.

Kyle Freeland had another rough start as the Rockies fell, 5-2, to the Tigers at Comerica Park.

Sam Hilliard snapped out of his slump in a big way. The Rockies outfielder hit two home runs and drove in five to lead Colorado to a 10-3 win over the Tigers at Comerica Park.

Major League Baseball is attempting to put together a careful, incremental and flexible plan to try and save the 2020 season.

The Rockies (23-10) take on the Reds (14-21) in the first of a three-game series at Coors Field on Thursday. The live stream will begin at 2 p.m. MT.

Rockies all-star shortstop Trevor Story pays close attention to the reports about baseball's possible return in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

With the start of the Major League Baseball season postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, we here at The Denver Post took a look at how the Rockies would fare in MLB The Show 20 on PlayStation 4. We will have a story for every game that had been scheduled until real-life baseball returns. Here’s a look at the virtual Rockies’ preseason preview. Entering Friday's game, the Rockies were 24-12.

Minor-league baseball -- the dreams it inspires, the smaller cities that embrace it and the talent it develops for big-league teams -- is undergoing seismic changes.

Gotta gotta be down because I want to hike.

Look at that face!

As people across the globe stay home to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, the air has cleaned up, albeit temporarily. People are also noticing animals in places and at times they don’t usually. When people stay home, Earth becomes cleaner and wilder.

You can reduce water use not by forgoing the recommended eight daily glasses of water, showering less often, or draining the fishbowl but by cutting back on grass, the turf kind, that is.

The world has lost more than one quarter of its land-dwelling insects in the past 30 years, according to researchers whose big picture study of global bug decline paints a disturbing but more nuanced problem than earlier research.

Two teeny-weeny African lion cubs were born at the Denver Zoo Thursday, and so far they’ve spent their time in the world nuzzling around their den, nursing and cuddling with their mom.

The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission vote 8 - 3 Thursday in favor of approving a ban on organized wildlife contests.

Mountain lions face an uncertain future under a new state plan to let hunters kill up to 15% a year across western Colorado, and more near subdivisions -- rankling animal rights advocates who favor a live-and-let-live approach to wildlife.

Don’t drop ball on vaccinations Re: “Immunization rates drop as parents avoid doctor’s visits,” April 24 news story

Health officials in El Paso County recently confirmed rabies in a skunk, the third positive test for the disease this year in the county.

Coloradans must take COVID-19, the pandemic illness caused by a new coronavirus, seriously.

Our leaders are making difficult, life-and-death decisions without a complete picture of the severity of this threat or a timeline for how long it could last. It’s easy to second-guess the new rules, suggestions and regulations coming.

Some activities must continue even as cities, counties and states effectively shut down to avoid the spread of COVID-19. Obviously our hospitals, doctors’ offices and emergency responder systems must remain open. Grocery stores are essential and so are pharmacies.

Coloradans must take this virus seriously or the government will step in and do it for us.

Employees on the front-lines of the coronavirus pandemic are truly essential. Employers must treat them as such.

The world has been thrust into an unprecedented time. The White House has estimated that 100,000 to 240,000 Americans could die in the coming months as a new virus sweeps through the nation and that’s if we implement and execute the recommendations from our doctors and scientists. About 700,000 jobs were lost in the U.S. in March as mayors and governors across the nation responded responsibly by forcing all but the most essential businesses to close.

President Donald Trump is treating life-saving medical equipment as emoluments he can dole out as favors to loyalists. It’s the worst imaginable form of corruption -- playing political games with lives. For the good of this nation during what should be a time of unity he must stop.

Easter Sunday and this week of Passover --- even for those who don’t observe the Christian and Jewish holidays --- will be stained with sadness.

We understand why unrest is bubbling among those who are unemployed and entrepreneurs who could lose their businesses. But the alternative to stay-at-home orders is allowing the highly contagious new coronavirus to rip through our communities.

Gov. Jared Polis is charting a smart and sustainable course for Colorado.

Even a person as enthusiastic as I am about home cooking can feel fatigue, and six going on seven weeks of this quarantine, I am feeling it. It’s not so much the cooking. It’s the eating -- probably because I am doing it all day long.

As Denver prepares to lift its stay-at-home order on Friday, a key business remains closed: restaurants.

Six Colorado restaurants and distilleries have been nominated for James Beard awards. Here's what to order from them.

If you've ever considered buying a keg from your favorite brewery, now would be the time.

In kitchens across the world, focaccia gardens are blooming. On top of the flatbreads, cherry tomatoes open like petals, with long scallion stalks for stems. Yellow-pepper sunflowers stand tall with Kalamata olives at their center. Red onions bud in bushes made from fresh herbs.

A running list of all the permanent Denver restaurant closures during the shutdown.

A large lobbying effort mobilized almost immediately. Conducted outside the public’s view, its goal was to keep hundreds of stores open, thousands of Denverites employed, and entire industries functioning across the city.

Nearly 15% of the city of Aurora's employees will be forced to take furloughs because of the economic costs of the coronavirus pandemic, city officials announced Wednesday.

Of Glendale's roughly 5,000 residents, 16 voted in this month's city election, which was held amid a global pandemic and statewide stay-at-home order.

The U.S. Justice Department can not withhold millions of dollars in federal funding to Colorado law enforcement agencies by attaching immigration-related terms and conditions to securing the grants according to a federal judge's ruling.

The development manager accused of showing favoritism toward a construction bidder on the Colorado Convention Center expansion project has signed a $250,000 settlement with state investigators.

In some cases, cities and counties have been hesitant to spend the emergency appropriations, because the federal government hasn't told them exactly how to.

Local government orders mandating residents wear masks have become a political flash point in Colorado’s ongoing coronavirus pandemic response.

Denver Public Schools leadership announced Thursday that the next academic year is expected to begin on time in August, but likely will consist of a mix of in-person and remote learning in an effort to maintain social distancing and prioritize health and safety.

Billy Liptrot is making the transition from prison to life on the outside just as one of the nation's hottest economic streaks has imploded in the face of a global pandemic. But the 38-year-old husband and father is optimistic as he undertakes training for what he hopes will lead to a career as a carpenter in the home building industry. And the industry says years of "under building" could help the industry bounce back as the economy improves.

Gov. Jared Polis said Friday that his goal is to have Colorado’s restaurants reopen in May, possibly before Memorial Day, depending on the effectiveness of the state’s new “safer-at-home” phase.

Denver will conduct a three-minute test of the Outdoor Warning Siren System on Wednesday.

As schools across Colorado closed in March to slow the spread of coronavirus, food service directors and cafeteria workers swung into action, setting up an extensive network that has handed out hundreds of thousands of meals, many of them to families short on food for the first time.

Our sympathies to a grieving mother Re: “Appeal from an isolated, grieving mother,” May 1 letter to the editor

As RTD scatters the homeless, many are likely to crowd into the few areas where they are still allowed during the lockdown, possibly exacerbating this public health crisis.

Sixty years ago, a young president urged us to ask what we could do for our country. We have not heard that challenge since. But now our health and economic threats require us to renew that challenge and recover the ideal of service.