Real estate values in Denver continue to climb higher and higher, thus far defying predictions from earlier this year that metro area home prices might finally be on the verge of falling. One big reason appears to be comparatively few foreclosures in Denver, other major Colorado cities and the state as a whole.
The big news about teens and marijuana in Colorado is that there isn’t big news. Just-issued federal government statistics show that the rate of cannabis use among high school students in the state is slightly less than the national average and below the percentage who smoked pot before Colorado voters approved legal consumption for adults more than five years ago.
Like its sister paper, the Denver Post, the Boulder Daily Camera has suffered layoffs and downsizing aplenty of late. But in the coming months, the Camera will be hiring, sort of. Unfortunately, though, the positions at Prairie Mountain Publishing, its parent company, will come at the expense of the Boston Herald, ten to fifteen of whose employees were given their walking papers last week.
No one has been arrested in more than 40 percent of the 32 Denver homicides from January 1 to June 1, including seven of nine in January alone.
Where will the money for the Floyd Hill I-70 proposal come from? Wasn’t the giant transportation bill passed by the Colorado General Assembly during the 2018 legislative session supposed to fund projects like this one? And if not, why not?
Although it’s still possible to find a single family, detached home in the Denver area for under $250,000, such properties are in extremely short supply. According to a new report, there were only 150 active listings for such abodes priced at less than $300,000 last month, as compared to nearly 900 going for $1 million or more.
Within a month, Civil Media Company hopes to have more than a dozen such publications in the works.
This weekend brought the unveiling of The Colorado Sun, a new journalism project being launched by a handful of former writers and editors for The Denver Post, which has been decimated by layoffs ordered by Alden Global Capital, its short-term-profits-over-long-term-survival hedge fund owner.
According to the Colorado Department of Transportation, more fatal accidents take place on Colorado roads between Memorial Day and Labor Day than during any other part of the year. And CDOT is determined to bring that number down.
With just over a week to go before the June 26 primary, former Colorado treasurer and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cary Kennedy is hitting the campaign trail and the airwaves hard. And despite controversy over whether she did or didn’t break a promise about going negative, sharp responses from rival Jared Polis and questions about a mysterious poll that shows Kennedy leading the field, Serena Woods, her deputy campaign manager, is overflowing with optimism about her chances to win the nomination.
Former state senator Mike Johnston has made progressive gun policies a major part of his campaign for Colorado governor in 2018, and that didn’t go over well with at least one local. This past Saturday, a supporter and family friend who’d put a Johnston sign in his yard woke up to discover a response: a bullet-riddled target stamped with the logo of the National Rifle Association.
In March, the average price of a detached, single-family home in metro Denver surpassed $500,000 for the first time. But that’s already seeming like the good old days.
From January 1, 2010 to the end of February 2017, nearly half of 312 homicides that took place in Denver didn’t result in an arrest. Moreover, the victims in cases either closed without anyone being taken into custody or still unsolved were overwhelmingly black or Hispanic.
One of KOSI and 9News star Denise Plante’s undeniable skills is to make the listener or viewer feel as if they know her. But in the following in-depth Q&A, she goes into details about her life and career that may come as a surprise to even some of her biggest fans.
New figures for June 2018 show the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment within Denver’s city limits is just a shade under $2,000 per month, and that figure has been surpassed in a popular suburb for the first time this year.
Tonight will mark the official launch of Caring 4 Denver, a proposed ballot measure that aims to raise $45 million per annum a quarter at a time in order to increase the amount of mental health and substance abuse services in the city.
In recent weeks, Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division has issued two industry-wide bulletins prompted by “reports of licensees making recommendations for pregnancy-related morning sickness.” And while pioneering marijuana attorney Brian Vicente is urging his clients to pay heed to the MED’s new focus on conversations between dispensary staffers and customers, he sees a broader problem.
An expert on water throughout Colorado feels the conditions that have helped fuel the 416 Fire near Durango and other blazes in the state at present could be with us for the foreseeable future.
It’s not often that a TV-news anchor essentially agrees with those calling a leading gubernatorial candidate a liar. But that’s exactly what 9News’ Kyle Clark did in regard to Colorado Treasurer and Republican frontrunner Walker Stapleton in a commentary segment on the June 11 edition of Next with Kyle Clark. He explains why in the following Q&A.
Today, FBI agent Chase Bishop, who became a national laughingstock after he accidentally shot Thomas Reddington while executing a back flip at Mile High Spirits Distillery during the wee hours of June 2, turned himself in to the Denver Sheriff’s Department. He was promptly arrested and is currently being held on suspicion of second-degree assault.
Metropolitan State University of Denver students have a new mission: preventing the Earth from being destroyed by asteroids.
Our updated list of the ten intersections with the most accidents in Denver right now testifies to the changing traffic patterns in Denver. Only two spots on the roster are repeats from our previous most-dangerous-intersections report, published in November.
