Denver News

Michelle Obama high fives supporters after her introduction during get out the vote rally at Dakota Ridge High School Monday, November 3, 2008 in Littleton.

Denver Public Schools is about to make to make big decisions on issues like opening schools, shutting schools down, and relocating schools to make better use of its sprawling Denver real estate portfolio. The District has enough vacant classroom space to house almost 30,000 students and their teachers.

MTV's "The Real World" is holding an open casting call in Denver this weekend for its 24th season.

A bicyclist rode through the shadow the Denver Art Museum's Hamilton building casts across W. 13th Avenue Tuesday afternoon, November 9, 2009.

The city is offering frustrated drivers one more option to pay for parking in Cherry Creek North.

Former East High teacher Dick Nelson is the volunteer curator of East's museum, which for 20 years has preserved memorabilia from the school.

A line of scrapers works the ground. No water has been secured for the south metro reservoir, and Western Slope interests are balking at proposals to pump water over the mountains.

In its 133 years of existence the Denver Fire Department has never had a woman in its command staff, until now.

Denver artist John McEnroe spent three and a half months in the backstage area of the old Elitch Gardens theater fabricating an installation for the Denver Art Museum's upcoming exhibition, "Embrace!" He needed a tall enough space to accommodate components that stretch to 25 feet.

The city of Denver plans to save roughly $5 million next year by instituting five furlough days for city employees.

Vine Street Pub's Paul Nashak plans to raise a toast to Denver tonight if the city council approves his request for a zoning variance that would allow the brewery to make beer on-site. A part of the Boulder-based Mountain Sun string of pubs, Vine Street has been open in Denver at 1700 Vine Street since May 2008 -- and has been trying to get brewery ...

This city really knows how to kick off its third annual Denver Arts Week: Tonight's Know Your Arts First Friday , an amped-up First Friday art-walk event, will step up to the plate to showcase local artists and galleries all over town.

A weak housing market pushed the Lower Downtown Design Review Board to defer development of residences on a site that kidney-dialysis giant DaVita is interested in for its corporate headquarters.

Officers with the Denver Police Department responding to a home early Friday morning found a dead woman and a man with stabbing wounds to his neck and arm.

If youa re making the trek to Denver for an Avalanche game or a concert, it can be easy to end up wandering around aimlessly.

One of the city's most popular shopping districts has a new way for drivers to pay for on-street parking, just in time for the holiday shopping season.

A Denver Arts week gets underway Friday. The city-sponsored event, which runs through Nov.

A new school board is about to take office in the Denver Public Schools and the transitional item , finished by the last board, but subject to review by the new school board, will be how to deal with six troubled schools, three neighborhood schools and three charter schools.

A crash forced officials to close northbound Interstate 25 in north metro Denver Thursday morning.

Denver voters Tuesday soundly defeated a ballot initiative that would have significantly restricted police discretion on whether to impound cars driven by unlicensed drivers.