Julie Gonzales’s long but not impossible odds | SONDERMANN
Allow me to start with a flashback. It was Thanksgiving 2024, just over 12 months back. For the first time, our son Clarke hosted the family Thanksgiving near New York City. It is a sign of our aging when the kids start to step into the role of host and convenor. The occasion was lovely.
Housing voucher program leaves Denver landlords managing formerly homeless tenants
DENVER — Denver landlords who house people transitioning from homelessness through housing vouchers are discovering they shoulder significant responsibility once tenants leave city shelters, with limited oversight from the city or programs that placed them. Christina Eisenstein's family owns an 18-unit apartment...
Man who went on costly rampage inside government building pleads guilty
An incident in Denver that started with a drug-induced psychotic episode and ended with the largest single-location insurance claim for the state of Colorado has earned a man 8 years in prison.
New program helps Aurora homebuyers overcome down-payment hurdle
AURORA | Aurora homebuyers have a new path to homeownership through a state-wide down-payment assistance program launched this month. The program is designed to help moderate-income residents overcome the hurdle of the upfront cost of getting a mortgage, and it will run through Oct. 31, 2026 or until the city’s...
VIDEO: Aurora Police Seek Public’s Help to Identify Suspect in Armed Robbery on Iola...
The Aurora Police Department is reaching out to the public for assistance in identifying a suspect connected to an armed robbery that occurred in northwest Aurora last month. The Aurora Police Department, in a recent post on their social media channels, including a Facebook page, shared security footage and is asking...
A Colorado Guaranteed Income Program Could Help Families, but the Costs Are High
In Colorado, full-time workers need to earn an hourly wage of at least $36.79 to afford $2,000 in monthly rent, which is below the federal fair market rate for a Denver-area two-bedroom unit. 87 percent of low-income Coloradans spend more than one-third of their pretax income on housing — a...
Artist Edward Aldrich: Wild for Colorado wildlife
As Denver set a record for the most days without snowfall, in a menagerie of paintings by Edward (Ned) Aldrich, Colorado wildlife lives forever surrounded by the white stuff. Aldrich paints owls, wolves, pronghorn antelope, bighorn sheep, rabbits and other North American species in heart-warming wintry scenes widely...
Annual Geminid meteor shower set to light up night sky
Dr. Jennifer Hoffman, an astronomer and University of Denver professor, shares everything you need to know about the celestial event.
Semi-truck splits in half on E-470
E-470 was closed in the southbound direction near Interstate 70 Saturday morning, after cargo being hauled by a semi-truck broke free and split the semi in half.
Denver takes 75 homeless RV dwellers off streets in two months
The City and County of Denver’s Department of Housing Stability has successfully moved 75 RV dwellers into shelters and apartments or reunified them with family, city homeless czar Cole Chandler said Thursday.
