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LoHi is one of Denver’s hottest neighborhoods. That wasn’t the case when it was just known as the lower edge of Highland.

Denver is suddenly awash in nicknames. Developers are smacking hip labels on formerly unhip areas of town; the creators of South Park are smacking those developers with mocking SoDoSoPa mockeries. The city is drowning in an alphabet soup.Denver has always had nicknames — Mile High City, Queen City of the Plains — but the first neighborhood nickname to really stick was LoDo.

The River North neighborhood is hip. So hip that even its abbreviation, RiNo, is cool. But there’s a lot more to this neighborhood than hipsters, bustling restaurants and cool street art. Keep reading for seven stories about RiNo (including one that challenges that very nickname). 1. Welcome to Denver’s Hottest…

Denver wants to renamed Brighton Boulevard, but readers think the city should be resurfacing streets, not renaming them,

The latest economic indicators for the Denver metro area show that the local economy remains red-hot. But while that’s generally a positive, the pace of growth is creating shortages of affordable housing either to buy or rent.

The Denver-area housing market remains so hot that bidding wars and above-list sales have become commonplace not just here but in other parts of the state, too. These factors and others help explain why a recent survey deemed Colorado to be among the worst places in the country for first-time home buyers.

If city officials have their way, Brighton Boulevard will soon have a new name.

Gary DeFrange took Winter Park in a bold new direction, one that has salvaged its troubled relationship with the City of Denver and transformed what was once a dowdy day-ski area into a full-service, year-round destination resort.

Forbes has just released its list of the world’s billionaires, and of the 2,043 individuals who’ve achieved this benchmark, ten of them live in Colorado.

Two years after it was acquired for back taxes by Gilpin County, the historic Belvidere Theatre in Central City is entering the second phase of its restoration. The structure, built in 1875 at the south end of Main Street in Central City’s National Historic Landmark District, was listed in 2016…

The project could be completed by 2022. But at 11,003 feet, the construction season for the project is short.

For at least the past couple of years, home buyers in the Denver area have often had to offer more than list price if they really wanted a property. And this scenario isn’t fading from the scene. A recent survey of U.S. cities with the most homes sold over list includes two from Colorado, Denver and Aurora, among the top fifteen.

A lawsuit filed against companies that own five of Denver’s most prominent strip clubs, as well as similar venues in seven states beyond Colorado, claims that exotic dancers are being ripped off by an illegal system that charges them to perform and forces them to help cover other employees’ earnings out of tips they receive, whether they made enough to do so or not.

When he first went to prison, Charles Smith was angry, violent, mad at the world. But then he found both God and Stephen R. Covey. Today he’s helping other prisoners and running a business, GreenGold KushWear, which delivers messages about marijuana — on T-shirts.

Dinos, RiNos and Kitty’s, oh, my!

I picked up newly acquainted lovers from a raucous house party at four in the morning and chuckled as they tried to learn more about each other in the backseat.

A Colorado advocacy organization has formally backed a high-profile lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s original executive orders banning some refugees and immigrants. New variations on the orders, which had been blocked by a federal court, were signed yesterday. Despite tweaks related to the number of Muslim-majority countries targeted (six, rather than the initial seven) and removal of language about giving preference to those who practice majority religions, however, the documents aren’t radically different from to the earlier ones, to which the Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved objected due in part to their potential for harming medical care in America. CCMU believes that’s the case not just when it comes to undocumented individuals already in this country, but also for citizens of every description because of reasons that include the large number of foreign-born doctors working in this country and the growing demand for even more, especially in rural areas.

Last August, the Regional Transportation District staged an early morning press event to ballyhoo new shuttles coming to the 16th Street Mall. But while 36 of the vehicles were supposed to be moving passengers along this iconic stretch more than a month ago, only five have been delivered thus far, and and an RTD spokesman confirms that there’s no definitive date when the other 31 will be on the road.

A Denver Craigslist ad touted an impressive-sounding apartment at what for Mile High City is a fairly reasonable price, $1,495. But there was only one problem. As seen in the photo above, which effectively satirizes the high cost of rent in Denver, the abode was actually a series of lashed-together cardboard boxes.

When renovations to the historic Molly Brown House are completed this spring, the building’s basement will open to the public for the first time.

The featured Colorado property overlooks Rocky Mountain National Park, making its environs spectacular even by the extremely high standards of our fair state. But the other homes on the roster are amazing in their own right.

Roberta Smith, occupational health program manger at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, hasn’t heard of anyone dying in an industrial accident at a Colorado marijuana business. But she says dispensaries, grows and the like present unusual safety risks.