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This week, Denver is launching a major reconstruction project on Federal Boulevard from West 7th Avenue to West Holden Place that’s 23 years in the making.

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel has announced that on August 13, it will stop publishing physical versions of its work on Monday and Tuesday in favor of e-editions online.

On July 24, Denver’s Landmark Preservation Commission was scheduled to consider a proposal by Denver Arts & Venues to make significant changes to the planter boxes placed along the edges of the seating section at world-renowned Red Rocks Amphitheatre. But days before the session, officials canceled the presentation in the face of opposition from the nonprofit citizens group Friends of Red Rocks and plenty of others.

Veronica Collin, a house flipper and head of Fresco Real Estate, offers insights taht collectively form a de facto guide to house flipping in Denver circa 2018.

Denver-based Frontier wound up near the bottom of a new survey touching on major national airlines, scoring the second-lowest marks when it comes to favorable impressions and the likelihood of ticket-purchasing.

Remember when rent prices in metro Denver finally seemed to be leveling off after a long stretch during which they kept rising amid a housing market that had seemingly reached maximum hotness? That seems like a distant memory now. Indeed, the situation has deteriorated for renters throughout 2018, with increases reaching new peaks each of the last two months. And this month, things are even worse.

Personal growth shouldn’t happen alone, says co-founder Amy Baglan.

Some Denverites say they’ve been harassed and profiled by private security guards.

Does the photo above show a vacant lot or a Denver park? According to Denver City Council member Jolon Clark, who’s championing a new sales tax to improve and expand parks in the Mile High City, the answer is both.

Colorado business leaders’ confidence in the economy has dropped for the state and the country as a whole. And while their outlook remains positive overall, there are growing indications that entrepreneurs in these parts seem worried that the good times may finally be about to turn.

According to a new study, Denver County has the second worst home affordability of 432 counties analyzed across the country, including those in every major U.S. metropolitan area.

Representatives of several crisis pregnancy centers in the metro Denver area object to having been characterized as fake clinics by NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado in the context of a just-issued U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of CPCs.

The National Association of Cannabis Businesses’ draft guidelines to establish a country-wide advertising standard for the marijuana industry was the subject of a months’ long comment period and is expected to be finalized this summer. Doug Fischer, chief legal officer for the NACB, believes such a criterion is needed as soon as possible, even though cannabis remains illegal on a federal level.

A selection of photos shared on designer Josh Goldstein’s must-follow Cinderella City Project Instagram page will send those who recall the magnificent edifice into a nostalgic swoon and make those who weren’t around to experience its version of retail glory green with envy.

Once again, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration is targeting kratom products sold in Colorado that are believed to be tainted with salmonella.

On Friday evening, June 22, the owner of a Red Hen restaurant in Virginia refused to serve White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders for a reason with a strong Colorado flavor — the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop, whose main man, Jack Phillips, said he wouldn’t make a wedding cake for a gay couple because of his religious beliefs.

How much does someone need to make in salary to afford the a median-priced house in the Denver today? A new report puts that total at more than $87,000, a figure out of reach for a large number of residents.

On Saturday, June 23, a McDonald’s in Lakewood will be ground zero for Denver-area protesters taking part in a nationwide demonstration against the giant chain over alleged mistreatment of chickens that are subsequently turned into McNuggets.

Ten percent of the project’s 234 units were set aside for affordable housing.

Here’s what no one wants to admit about the continuing clusterfuck over the naming of the Denver Broncos’ stadium: The deal would have been done by now if the squad was still a perennial Super Bowl contender with Peyton Manning at quarterback. But it’s not. The Broncos sucked two years ago and sucked harder last year, and plenty of experts (and doubters) expect the suckage to continue for the foreseeable future. And what company wants its brand to be Suck?

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.

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.