Jocelyn Rowley

Stylist Ginny Gischel trims Susumu Rodriguez鈥檚 hair on Tuesday in a back room of the Loveland Resource Center on South Lincoln Avenue. Gischel volunteers at the center twice a month, providing free haircuts for people experiencing homelessness. (Jocelyn Rowley, Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Free haircuts offer dose of hope at Loveland Resource Center: 鈥楽he鈥檚 a blessing鈥�

November 30, 2025 at 8:51 a.m.

LRC guests start signing up for an appointment with Gischel on the Friday before regular visits and, most times, the list fills quickly.

Lake Loveland is pictured from the southeast shore Monday in Loveland. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Why Lake Loveland is so full 鈥� and Boyd Lake so low

November 11, 2025 at 11:55 a.m.

Currently, Lake Loveland is at 86% capacity, with 11,000 acre-feet (AF) of water, just below its total capacity of 12,736 AF.

Standing outside the Loveland Resource center, Edmon Lessley, right talks Tuesday about how losing reliable overnight shelter could set back the progress he has made to get back on his feet. Jeffrey "Red" Ernstedt, left, hangs out with him outside the day shelter which opened Monday night when some of the city's unhoused were told to move from an encampment that was set up outside city hall after the city's only overnight shelter closed. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Loveland clears city hall camp, reopens city-shuttered Resource Center for overnight use

October 8, 2025 at 9:41 a.m.

The reopening of overnight shelter at the Resource Center on South Lincoln Avenue came a week after the city shut down the South Railroad Facility, which had offered up to...

Trying to stay warm wrapped in a quilt, Julie Desroches sweeps leaves off the ground near tents Monday outside of city hall in downtown Loveland. Some of the unhoused have been sleeping in tents there since the overnight shelter closed. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Loveland mayor opens city hall to homeless, prompting backlash

January 7, 2026 at 2:51 p.m.

Marsh said she texted the city attorney and city manager around 3:20 p.m. Sunday, asking for permission to open the municipal building to shelter people during the coming rain.

Shane Ricks, a heavy equipment operator for Zak Dirt, talks Thursday, Aug. 21, about finding a century-old caisson that held a flagpole and then a traffic light on Fourth Street and Lincoln Avenue while he was working with his excavator on the HIP Streets project Loveland. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Found on Fourth: Historic finds surface in Loveland鈥檚 HIP Streets project

September 5, 2025 at 5:38 p.m.

Shane Ricks, an excavator operator for Zak Dirt, hasn鈥檛 ever found anything quite like the historic caisson he happened upon while working on the Heart Improvement Plan (HIP) Streets project,...

The proposed Glade Reservoir north of Fort Collins, if built, would cover Haystack Rock and require realignment of U.S. 287 for the Northern Integrated Supply Project. (Reporter-Herald file photo)

Northern Water: NISP still moving forward despite cost 鈥榟iccups鈥�

August 28, 2025 at 3:03 p.m.

For officials at Northern Water, however, the once-in-a-generation investment in future water security is too important to abandon over what it considers to be 鈥渉iccups鈥� rather than major setbacks

Loveland council to weigh camping ban changes

August 4, 2025 at 1:08 p.m.

Loveland City Council will return on Tuesday with a hefty agenda that includes the controversial Centerra South urban renewal plan, the city鈥檚 three-year-old unauthorized encampment ban and additional residency restrictions...

Kalina Middleton speaks during public comment at City Council Tuesday, April 1, 2025, about Councilor Erin Black after she was captured on camera in a confrontation at a public park. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald).

Loveland City Council calls for member鈥檚 resignation after viral video

April 21, 2025 at 9:49 p.m.

Erin Black was still a member of Loveland City Council after Tuesday鈥檚 meeting, but it was without the support of most of her colleagues.

A view of the Big Thompson River Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, from the city’s new Wild Natural Area in west Loveland. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Loveland鈥檚 new Wild Natural Area to open on Friday

February 26, 2025 at 12:09 p.m.

The site features a trail with access to the Big Thompson River and opportunities for hiking, fishing and viewing wildlife.

Mark Lundeen touches the tie on a sculpture of President Donald Trump Tuesday outside the Lundeen Sculpture studio where they're finishing the sculpture in downtown Loveland. Mark, his brother George Lundeen and Joey Bainer worked together to create the commissioned piece. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Lundeen Sculpture in Loveland creates bronze Trump statue

February 7, 2025 at 12:46 p.m.

Piece funded by Anthony Constantino destined for Trump golf resort in Florida.

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