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On Friday, May 4, Dean Singleton, who owned the Denver Post from 1987 to 2013, resigned as the newspaper’s chairman and also left his position on the editorial board

The Colorado Legislature is still working on a fix for PERA, but it won’t solve the real problem.

Last year, after Miguel Lopez was refused a permit for the Denver 420 Rally, which he’s put on annually since 2008, following complaints about Civic Center Park being trashed, attorney Rob Corry filed a lawsuit against the City and County of Denver on his behalf. Then, after Michael Ortiz was awarded the permit only to see it subsequently handed to Euflora, a local dispensary, Corry sued Denver in his name, too.

St. Dominic’s worked with neighbors on a plan, then sold the property.

The Denver real estate market remains red hot, with plenty of homes selling for well above the listed price. But when should sellers to put their property on the market and when should they wait? Denver-specific numbers from a new study reveal the ten best and worst days to make a deal for a house in the Mile High City.

An open letter about gentrification to Mayor Michael Hancock from a third-generation former Park Hill resident.

The Cannabist, the Denver Post’s marijuana site, is the latest victim of downsizing at the the newspaper. According a tweet by Jake Browne, who reviewed marijuana for the section and hosted its signature video program, The Cannabist Show, the Post “has cut all editorial staff and will replace them with bots.”

Dave Krieger, a former staffer with the Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post and KOA radio, has been fired from his latest position as editorial page editor of the Boulder Daily Camera after self-publishing an attack on Alden Global Capital, the so-called “vulture” hedge fund that also owns the Post, when his own paper wouldn’t publish it.

The soon-to-start Central 70 plan isn’t the only major construction project along the urban corridor that’s expected to break ground within months. The approximately $330 million undertaking the Colorado Department of Transportation has dubbed the North I-25 project will add express lanes in either direction, as well as replace bridges and more from Johnstown to Fort Collins, and it’s not expected to be completed until 2021. Additionally, the department will be laying the groundwork for future expansion that may not take place until 2075, more than half a century from now.

Brandon Rietheimer might have successfully pushed the most campaigned-against measure on last November’s ballot, but the man behind the controversial Green Roof Initiative is anything but.

What are the most and least expensive places to rent in Denver right now, no matter what size apartment you’d like? Find the answers here.

Readers debate whether living in Denver is worth the price of high rent.

Attorney Brian Vicente sees reason for optimism about MMJ.

Marijuana is legal in Colorado for both medical and recreational purposes according to the state’s constitution.

One of the most frequent questions we at Westword hear is: “Where do my marijuana tax dollars go?” Now, a new animated video created by Marijuana Industry Group, whose executive director, Kristi Kelly, has become the face of the cannabis business in Colorado, gets closer to the truth of the matter than anything has in a long, long time. See it here.

A new analysis of rent growth in the United States reveals that prices in Denver went up 48.3 percent from 2010 through the end of last year. The increase is the fourth highest in the United States during that period, behind only three cities in California’s Bay Area.

Great Hall Partners will hold an open house for would-be concessionaires from 2 to 4 p.m. Monday, April 16.

Although “Ditch the Ditch” protesters haven’t given up on stopping the sprawling and controversial Central 70 project, the Colorado Department of Transportation is moving full steam ahead, with a goal of getting underway in earnest this summer. To help prepare metro-area drivers in general, and especially commuters who travel along Interstate 70 east of I-25 on a daily basis, for what CDOT insists will be coming soon, we reached out to Rebecca White, Central 70’s communications director, who offers a preview of a process that’s expected to take well into the next decade to complete.

In 2016, Colorado voters passed Amendment 70, which established an incremental increase in the state’s minimum wage culminating in a $12-per-hour rate by 2020. But a proposal just introduced in the Colorado general assembly has the potential of giving that amount an additional boost in some locations. The legislation, accessible below, would empower towns, cities or counties in Colorado to set their own minimum wage based on how expensive it is to make ends meet there.

Catering workers at United Airlines, including a preponderance of Pacific Islander employees at the Denver International Airport, are trying to unionize to get better pay and insurance and keep the flight benefit they use annually to visit home.

Denver Public Schools announced Thursday that it has partnered with Landed, a startup based in California, and the Zoma Foundation to launch a down-payment assistance program that will provide up to half of a 20 percent down payment on a home, or up to $70,000 per household, to about 100 teachers the first year.

Investors approached Denver with $24 million for a community land trust. Now the backers behind the Elevation Land Trust are in discussions with other municipalities that seem more eager to become partners.