Apartment vacancy in metro Denver reaches highest rate in 16 years, pushing down rents...
With more than 34,000 apartments sitting empty at the end of 2025, the Denver-area apartment market reached a vacancy rate of 7.6%, the highest in 16 years, officials with the Apartment Association of Metro Denver said Wednesday. It’s not that apartments weren’t getting rented — newly built complexes filled up...
Denver streets official pressed by councilmembers on change of plans along Alameda Avenue
Denver City Councilmembers pressed Amy Ford, executive director of Denver’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, for details following a public outcry over changes to its “lane repurposing project” on East Alameda Avenue. Councilmembers wrote Mayor Mike Johnston last week after a television news story was...
Man suspected of killing toddler was ‘unhinged’
A man arrested on suspicion of killing a toddler in southwest Denver was described as “aggressive” and “unhinged” by others living in the household, according to police. Nicolas Stout, 38, faces charges of first-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death after Denver police arrested him Sunday afternoon in...
CBI searching for 38-year-old woman last seen in Lakewood
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation issued an endangered missing indigenous persons alert Wednesday for a 38-year-old woman who was last seen on Jan. 17.
Highlands Ranch teacher pleads guilty in case involving inappropriate relationship with student
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. — A woman, who was a 2025 Colorado Teacher of the Year finalist, has pleaded guilty after she was charged in connection with an inappropriate relationship with a student at STEM School Highlands Ranch. Tera Johnson-Swartz, 45, of Castle Rock was arrested in February 2025 and...
Denver issues first $5,000 fine for unlicensed landlord
For the first time, Denver has slapped an unlicensed landlord with the maximum $5,000 fine allowed under a new penalty increase — part of its ongoing crackdown on what the city calls “slumlords.”
2 former Colorado medical executives indicted in $873M health care fraud scheme
A federal grand jury has charged two former executives of a Colorado medical device company with planning to cheat health care programs and investors, and with other types of fraud.
Denver “Outlaw” Author Nabbed In Colorado Boulevard Bank Job
Charles Christopher Martinez, 48, an Arvada resident who previously served time for bank robbery, is back behind bars after a Colorado Boulevard bank heist that investigators say looked uncomfortably familiar. Police allege Martinez walked into a U.S. Bank branch, demanded cash from a teller, then took off before...
Timing, totals, impacts on incoming weekend snowstorm in Colorado
An incoming snowstorm is expected to bring several inches to the mountains and some flakes in Denver over the weekend.
Sharp decline in apartment construction is among Denver mayor’s ‘biggest fears’
Rent in Denver is dropping because the city is embracing pro-growth policies to get more housing built, Mayor Mike Johnston said in a recent interview with Denverite. The average rent in Denver is $1,953, a decline of about 7.5 percent from a year earlier, according to Zillow. “That is a...
