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Denver voters rejecting fur ban and slaughterhouse ban initiatives

Denver voters were giving a strong thumbs-down Tuesday night to ballot measures that would ban businesses from making or selling fur-based products and outlaw slaughterhouses within city limits.




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CDC calls for expanded bird flu testing after more dairy worker infections found in Colorado and Michigan

The new guidance comes after blood tests for 115 farmworkers in Michigan and Colorado showed that eight workers -- or 7% — had antibodies that indicated previous infection with the virus known as Type A H5N1 influenza.






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Feldman: It’s too soon to call the Derek Chauvin verdict a turning point

Perhaps, years from now, if existing trends are reversed and more police officers start to be held accountable for using excessive force against Black people, we will be able to look back at this verdict as a turning point. But that would have to be a retrospective judgment based on change.




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Editorial: Empower Northeast Park Hill residents to demand more at the old golf course

Before weighing in on Denver’s competing ballot questions 301 and 302, we want to take the time to empower Denver residents with some important history and perspective -- the 155 acres at the former Park Hill Golf Course were put under a conservation easement in 1997 with the clear intent of protecting the land from development.




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Colorado’s contested Democratic primaries turned on more than ideology, despite prominent lawmakers’ losses

"If you take politics as a game, you have to play underneath the rules. You can't appear to be disagreeable; you have to appear to voters as someone who’s getting things done."




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Student-athletes to be honored at Denver Athletic Club banquet

The Denver Athletic Club's 41st annual athlete-of-the-year banquet will be held Thursday and The Denver Post's student-athletes of the week will be honored.




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Seniors, underclassmen battle to a draw at Coors Field in Rockies All-Star/Futures game

For an all-star game, there were tight groups comprised of players both familiar and new to each other.




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Former local star Devlin Granberg had a big JUCO Series

Devlin Granberg, a former Denver Post all-stater at Holy Family in Broonfield, recently competed for Cisco, Texas, in the Alpine Bank Junior College Baseball World Series in Grand Junction.




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Maverick Handley, Ali Peper are student-athletes of the year

A catcher bound for Stanford and a golfer-ice hockey player who spent half the school year in Boston and is headed to Harvard were named male and female student-athletes of the year at The Denver Athletic Club's 41st annual athlete-of-the-year banquet Thursday night.




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Allan Dyer of Cherokee Trail is The Denver Post’s 2016 All-Colorado baseball coach of the year

The Denver Post's 2016 All-Colorado baseball team and coach of the year, plus honorable mention to make up a squad of the state's top high school players.




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Legacy’s Dawn Gaffin wins 2016 Dave Sanders Colorado Coach Award

Dawn Gaffin is the 2016 winner of the Dave Sanders Colorado Coach Award, which is presented annually by The Denver Post to a teacher-coach committed to female athletics and high ideals like Sanders, who was killed while saving students in the Columbine massacre in 1999.




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A new Denver data center could use as much water as 16,000 people every day. Should the city give it a tax break?

Denver-based CoreSite plans to build a new data center in the Elyria Swansea neighborhood to provide computing services to companies in the metro area and beyond.




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Oil, gas company Enerplus closing Denver office, cutting 73 jobs after merger

Enerplus Corp. merged with Chord Energy Corp. earlier this year in $11 billion deal.




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Editorial: A weak policy at CU allows coaches or professors to pursue sex with students

"Professors, coaches, and other University of Colorado employees are technically allowed to use their positions of authority to develop intimate relationships with students and athletes."





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The Denver Post editorial board opposes the ban on mountain lion, lynx and bobcat hunting

Coloradans are being asked to ban mountain lion hunting and the hunting and trapping of bobcats and the endangered lynx should the animal ever get delisted.





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Delta flight lands safely at DIA after midair “mechanical issue” damaged plane’s nose

A Delta Airlines flight flying from Detroit landed safely at Denver International Airport on Monday after a mid-flight mechanical issue damaged the plane’s nose.








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“Housing is health care”: Supportive living programs for homeless increasing in metro Denver

Exact services vary depending on the community each project targets, but supportive housing generally includes on-site case managers, often with some health care or job training classes available in the building.




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Several new navigation centers will offer metro Denver’s homeless population help amid worsening crisis

Bridge House's "work-first" approach is similar to Aurora's philosophy of how best to lift people out of homelessness.




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Neighborhood parks in Arvada, Denver receive more than $15 million in grant money for improvements

The Department of the Interior awarded the money from its Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Grants Program.








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Denver Film Festival: What to know about celebs, premieres and more

Films include the Boulder-shot "Elevation," starring Anthony Mackie, and "The Order," based on a book by Denver's Kevin Flynn




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State cross country: Aiden Le Roux, Addison Ritzenhein are fastest boy and girl in Colorado after setting course records

Aiden Le Roux and Addison Ritzenhein both set all-classification course records at the Norris Penrose Event Center.




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Snow way: Frederick delivers all-encompassing performance in snowy 1st-round win

Frederick beat Northfield 32-14 on Friday in 4A's first round.




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Denver’s affordable housing sales tax has been defeated, Mayor Mike Johnston concedes

While it made up ground in later returns after Tuesday's election, the measure was rejected on 51% of city ballots counted so far, according to the latest results released by the Denver Elections Division on Friday evening.




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Gabe Evans widens lead over U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo as ballot counting nears completion in battle for Congress

State Rep. Gabe Evans’ lead over U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo shrank between Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, from 2,529 votes to 1,995.




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Gabe Evans flips 8th Congressional District for Republicans as Rep. Yadira Caraveo concedes race

Evans won 48.98% of the final count with 162,022 votes compared to Caraveo’s 159,426 votes, or 48.19% of the final count, according to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office.




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Mountain View blanks The Classical Academy to claim Class 4A flag football title

The No. 2 Lions shut out No. 1 The Classical Academy, 26-0, to complete a 17-1 season.




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Downtown’s sluggish recovery costing Denver tens of millions in unrealized sales tax revenues, study finds

Had Denver matched the regional average gain, it would have seen an additional $646 million more in taxable sales revenues, the report estimates.





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Metro Denver housing market heats up in October, despite election jitters

Metro Denver's housing market heated up instead of cooling down last month as buyers defied expectations they would take a wait-and-see approach until the election was over.




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Denver’s hot October housing market bucks pre-election tradition

Despite concerns buyers would delay home purchases until after the election, metro Denver’s housing market sizzled in October. That activity bucks a national trend. A Redfin survey shows that 23% of first-time buyers plan to wait until after the election to purchase, citing economic uncertainty, potential rate cuts, and candidate policy impacts. According to the […]






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Bill Husted covered Denver’s highs and lows with generosity, withering humor

The veteran Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post writer died at home on Saturday, Nov. 9 at age 76.