Politics

Benjamin Stark remembers precisely when he started having problems with his apartment. “That would be day one,” he said, referring to when he moved into the Felix apartment complex in southeast Denver in summer 2021. “I didn’t have (air conditioning) for about a month and a half. It was a heat wave. That was like […]

A Brighton vegetable farm that began operations as the Great Depression settled over the country 95 years ago says it will have to close shop if a residential developer takes possession of a swath of its land through eminent domain. The Parkland Metropolitan District No. 1, which is overseeing the development of the 140-acre Bromley […]

Grow houses at Green Dragon Cannabis Co. in Denver on Friday, May 10, 2024. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post) Long past their heyday Organizing among agricultural workers remains low nationwide. Just Water leaking from the growhouse ceiling. Algae spreading on the floor. Standing water pooling at workers’ feet. Those were just some of the conditions […]

On the final day of the 2024 legislative session, lawmakers were in high spirits as the General Assembly put the finishing touches on a slew of legislation that had dominated the final weeks. Most of Wednesday was preoccupied with tributes to departing members, a steak cook-off in the House and the Capitol’s version of spring […]

Coloradans can expect two years of free college for qualifying students, long-term property tax reform after years of Band-Aid measures, and denser development following a legislative session that Democratic leaders called a “breakthrough” for many of their long-held policy goals. A year removed from the bitter divisions and policy losses that marked the 2023 General […]

Denver’s revamped migrant program in recent days began enrolling the roughly 800 people who are expected to be the first beneficiaries of a new approach city leaders consider innovative. Participants will receive six months of housing, help with living costs, job training and legal support as the city files asylum claims on their behalf in […]

City leaders have zeroed in on a strategy they hope can break downtown Denver out of what Mayor Mike Johnston has described as the area’s post-COVID “doom loop.” The key to that strategy: the expansion of an obscure special taxing authority that played a key part in downtown’s last big boom. Johnston and other city […]

Unlike last year, the end of the Colorado legislative session Wednesday came with no fireworks — no protest walkouts, no intracaucus tensions boiling over into public, no last-minute implosions of keystone policy bills. The final day of lawmakers’ nearly four-month session instead was dominated by noticeably brighter spirits as the General Assembly put the finishing […]

Thornton will be able to build a critical segment of a 70-mile pipe to bring water from the Cache la Poudre River to the fast-growing suburb north of Denver, after elected leaders in Larimer County unanimously — if begrudgingly — approved a permit for the northern segment of the pipe on Wednesday night. Colorado’s sixth-largest […]

Colorado lawmakers have agreed on a compromise measure to combat distracted driving on roadways, solidifying a ban on the hand-held use of cell phones behind the wheel that is moving toward passage in the final hours of this year’s legislative session. Negotiators faced pressure from law enforcement officials to make sure the ban was enforceable […]

The Colorado legislature’s 2024 session is set to end Wednesday night, and the House and Senate convened for a final day of debate and votes to wrap up bills on a number of priorities, including property tax reform and land-use policy changes that will affect local governments. This story will be updated throughout the day. […]

The Colorado legislature is poised to pass a suite of marquee land-use reform measures that promise to reshape housing development along the Front Range, delivering a significant win to Gov. Jared Polis and legislative Democrats a year after their first reform attempt collapsed. On Tuesday, the penultimate day of the legislative session, the Senate passed […]