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RICHMOND, Va. — As a member of the secretive Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Angus King has reason to worry about hackers. At a briefing by security staff this year, he said he got some advice on how to help keep his cellphone secure. Step One: Turn off phone. Step Two: Turn it back on. That’s […]

Metro Denver broke a 20-year-old record for annual home price appreciation in April, and it only took a month to break that new record, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller home price index. Denver’s home price index rose 16.2% year-over-year in May, surpassing April’s record 15.5% gain. The national index’s 16.6% annual gain in May […]

The office building at 5700 S. Quebec St. was already under construction, John W. Madden Jr. says, when he decided to add a residential penthouse atop it. Blame the deer. It was late one day in the late 1970s, and the founder of development firm John Madden Co. hit a buck while driving home to […]

Four golf buddies just wanted a space to train and improve their skills off the course. But they felt some of the other local golf bars around town weren’t exactly up to par. “We started going to some of the simulators around town, and none of them were quite what we wanted the experience to […]

Local government and nonprofit leaders asked Gov. Jared Polis on Monday to provide tenants actively seeking rental assistance dollars an additional two months to avoid eviction as the expiration of a federal moratorium fast approaches. “No one eligible for rental assistance should be put out of their homes, especially because of systemic factors beyond their […]

A 50-year-old mansion that once tugged at the heartstrings of the “King of Rock and Roll” has hit the market again for $5.2 million. The 15,987-square-foot contemporary home at 3962 S. Chase Way sits on nearly one acre next to Denver’s Pinehurst Country Club. It’s owned by health care entrepreneur and philanthropist Rob Salazar and […]

By Shira Ovide, The New York Times Company “Data privacy” is one of those terms that feels stripped of all emotion. It’s like a flat soda. At least until America’s failures to build even basic data privacy protections carry flesh-and-blood repercussions. This week, a top official in the Roman Catholic Church’s U.S. hierarchy resigned after a […]

Denver’s office real estate market has a higher vacancy rate than at any point since the fall of 2009, according to the real estate services firm CBRE. Over the second financial quarter of this year — from April through the end of June — the metro-wide vacancy rate rose to 18.8%. That doesn’t account for […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a temporary restraining order and asset freeze on Thursday to stop what it alleges was a “fraudulent offering of securities and misappropriation of investor assets” by Denver-based Outdoor Capital Partners LLC and its director Samuel J. Mancini. The order follows Mancini’s arrest Tuesday in a related criminal complaint that […]

Despite the economic headwinds the nation faced last year, homebuilders pulled nearly one million more single-family home permits in 2020 than they did in 2019, making it the most robust year for new home construction since the waning days of the housing boom. And while builders were also very busy in Colorado, pulling 1,880 more […]

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose last week from the lowest point of the pandemic, even as the job market appears to be rebounding on the strength of a reopened economy. The Labor Department said Thursday that jobless claims increased last week to 419,000, the most in two months, from 368,000 […]

Zeppelin Development’s push into the high country is kicking into high gear. The Denver-based development firm led by Kyle Zeppelin last week closed on a $5 million construction loan through FirstBank, enabling the company to begin construction of an A-frame village one shuttle stop away from the base of Winter Park Resort. The 31 structures, […]