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About 1,400 people packed into the main auditorium, with a few hundred more watching from a screen in an auxiliary room.

Have fun this weekend.

Happy Birthday, DIA.

In July 2023, there were 2,356 active or recently expired business licenses for Denver restaurants. By February 2025, less than two years later, that figure had dropped to just 1,780.

A proposal to cut wages for some restaurant employees is dividing Colorado Democrats and the restaurant industry.

The mayor's idea resembles a tax credit that rewards restaurants for using service charges.

The Cesar Chavez building in Denver’s Golden Triangle neighborhood is on the chopping block.

Rep. Briana Titone, a former geologist, was first elected to the statehouse in 2018 in a blue wave.

"This is an extraordinary case and unlike any other my office has conducted, due to the exorbitant amount of wages stolen, the strip clubs’ overbearing employee rules, and their refusals to comply with our lawful investigations."

The report’s official future remains murky, even if Colorado scientists still hope a version is released.

Copper prices have surged in recent months, and EV chargers have become low-hanging fruit for thieves looking to cash in.

Developers have sold Loretto Heights as the future "Union Station of southwest Denver."

Looking back, Austin Ray views his discrimination complaint to HR as the "beginning of the end" of his employment with the city.

The lawsuit says police knew the man they were looking for lived in apartment 307, not 306 where the Shelton family lived, and that the numbers were clearly marked.

For three days this July, Denver’s cowboy capitol will trade in its bolo ties and boot spurs for spiky hair and mosh pits.

Capitol Heights Pharmacy is one of a handful of independent pharmacies left in the Denver metro area, compared to hundreds of chain pharmacies at places like Walmart, Target and King Soopers.

Renting a place in Denver sometimes means suffering through miserable — and potentially dangerous — conditions. A new city council proposal would give the Department of Public Health and Environment more power in enforcing habitability laws.

The Department of Homeland Security argued DPS hasn’t proven that the government’s action has caused injury or that the 90,000-student district would suffer irreparable harm if a temporary restraining order isn’t granted.

“Once you hear it, once you feel it, once you taste it, you can never go back to the bubble you lived in.”

Scooter debate is nothing new in Denver.

Broncos linebackers coach Michael Wilhoite was arrested Sunday on a charge of second-degree assault of a peace officer.

The Mayor’s Office of Social Equity and Innovation is under fire from Denver Auditor Tim O’Brien.

The on-again, off-again funding freeze of federal grants in the Denver metro area has affected hospitals, federal workers and, until recently, efforts to improve the air you breathe.

By the time it’s done — projected to be 2027 — there will be new arrival spaces for international and domestic passengers, a lot more security lanes and a big crystal tree.

“If you analyze whatever we eliminate, you're going to have a pretty good idea of what is happening, right?”

What would you rename the 16th Street Mall?

Colorado lawmakers are making another attempt to reform the state’s largest public transit provider.

Anne Marie Hochhalter struggled with intense pain from her gunshot wounds over the past 25 years, but her brother said she was tireless in her drive to help others.

Denver City Council approved big changes to campaign finance rules and the city’s voter-approved Fair Elections Fund.

The platform once let council members speak to the public, and vice versa. But it has become too entwined with President Donald Trump’s administration, said Council President Amanda Sandoval.

Although the jobs are wide-ranging, there is a common thread in what the state’s federal workers are feeling: chaos.

Sprouts Farmers Market is opening its 33rd Colorado grocery store in Aurora in April.

Currently, visitors between November and mid-March pay about 60 percent less to enter the zoo than those who come from April to October. But zoo leaders say that’s unsustainable.

Denver could get its first updated noise ordinance in years.

Denver, we have a mission for you. 🧵

Cerebral Brewing’s parking lot-turned-mega patio is no more.

The city of Denver is hiring outside lawyers as it prepares for a Congressional Republican inquiry about the city's immigration policies.

The city of Denver is hiring outside lawyers as it prepares for a Congressional Republican inquiry about the city's immigration policies.

The code change prohibits the construction of new gas stations: - Within a quarter mile of an existing gas station - Within a quarter mile of a rail transit station platform - Within 300 feet of low-intensity residential zone districts, dedicated to single- and two-unit buildings

Since 2020, the city has paid out more than $30 million in settlements and cases to the Denver Police Department.