Denver City Council is about to consider a five-year affordable housing plan. Before a scheduled reading on August 20, we caught up with Councilmember At-large Robin Kniech, who has been the council’s representative on the Mayor’s Housing Advisory Committee and has seen a lot of the considerations – and challenges – in putting the affordable housing plan together.
Colorado’s marijuana black market has become significantly smaller than the rest of the country’s since dispensaries showed up, it hasn’t evaporated.
U.S. News & World Report has just released its 2018 roster for the best hospitals in the country, as well as for each state. The highest finishers in Colorado are mainly clustered in the metro area, with the number one facility ranking nationally in eleven specialty areas and first in the country in one.
Sadly, this looks like more of a trend than a phase.
Tom Upah says he’s been told by his son and at least one person involved in his case that after being diagnosed as mentally ill, Jonathan was kept in solitary confinement at Denver’s downtown detention center for 23 out of 24 hours each day.
A recent study reveals how much money is required to break into the top 1 percent by income in cities and counties across Colorado, and the numbers at the top of the charts are eye-popping.
Jared Polis has made universal health care a cornerstone of his campaign. But what, exactly, is universal health care, and how will he implement it?
The Denver District Attorney’s office has announced that it will file murder and child abuse accusations in the death of Jordan Vong, a seven-year-old Montbello resident, against his sixteen-year-old aunt. Moreover, the teen will be charged as an adult.
Denver Police discovered three deceased individuals — two men and one woman — behind an 8,000-square-foot building. On Thursday afternoon, DPD revealed that they believe the victims were homeless.
Dispensary earnings are still on pace for annual growth, according to the Department of Revenue.
A Northeastern University study from 2013 showed that PFAS exposure was linked to six diseases: ulcerative colitis, pregnancy-induced hypertension, thyroid disease, testicular cancer and kidney cancer.
Alleged marijuana fraudster Scott Pack’s attorneys argue that he shouldn’t have to face a lawsuit accusing him of fraud until the conclusion of a criminal case that was originally scheduled to take place in June but has now been put off until May 20, 2019.
The vulnerability of motorcyclists on Colorado roads was underscored last week by a single tragic day in Aurora. On July 30, authorities responded to two accidents involving motorcycles in the area. They took place just five hours apart, and in both cases, the motorcyclists were killed.
A recent study determined that home affordability in Denver was the second-worst in the country. But new data shows that consumers who otherwise might not be able to purchase a home in the area can still do so if they look in one of nine Denver neighborhoods that offer the best bang for the buck.
In 2015, Walker Stapleton and his wife Jenna traveled a lot and left their three children in the care of as many nannies. But according to the Stapletons, the nannies behaved badly, stealing a variety of things including cash, some jewelry, a hat, a belt, hair ribbons, a sippy cup, underpants. You know, the usual.
Dan and Ashley thought they were following the rules when they started growing four marijuana plants in their backyard.
Roger Barris is trying to do what no other libertarian has done in Colorado: get into Congress.
Denver City Council president Jolon Clark has proposed a sales tax that would, as he tells it, improve and expand parks in the Mile High City.
Sometimes people need a little help with what they want to build, says a founder.
But East Colfax still rates as more sketchy than South Broadway.
At a press conference this morning, representatives of the Aurora Police Department and other local law enforcement agencies confirmed that Alex Christopher Ewing, a 57-year-old prisoner in Nevada, where he’s serving time for brutally beating a couple with an ax handle, has been named in arrest warrants related to the 1984 hammer killings of Bruce, Debra and Melissa Bennett and the severe wounding of Vanessa Bennett, then age three, as well as the murder of Lakewood resident Patricia Louise Smith six days earlier.
The Caring 4 Denver initiative proposes raising $45 million annually by increasing Denver’s sales and use taxes by a quarter of one percent (an additional 25 cents on a $100 purchase).
