Coronavirus in Denver will remain an official disaster until at least June 15
The city council voted to extend the disaster declaration Monday.

Dustin Fitzpatrick packs up his home in Five Points at the orders of Denver Police. May 7, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)
Elected officials extended the city’s emergency declaration, which will keep the door open for disaster relief money and continue to put urgent needs like homeless shelters and personal protective equipment on a fast-track, on Monday.
The declaration keeps the dam open for the flow of federal aid. It also allows Denver’s government to continue spending money on stopgaps for the city’s unhoused population — the largest single expense incurred by the city during the COVID-19 outbreak — while purchasing things like face masks and gloves for workers.
Denver’s current emergency declaration expires May 11.

Denver is no longer using city rec centers to shelter migrants
As arrival numbers drop, the city has shifted to working with its partners.

Good news: the giant hole on E. 9th Avenue through Hale is being fixed. Bad news: the street will be closed for days
Denver Water doesn't know exactly how long it'll be closed after a water line broke early Thursday morning and caused a huge crater at the intersection of 9th Avenue and Eudora Street.

(Denver has a) Baby sloth! Zoo-zoo zoo zoo-zoo
And yes, it is adorable.

Do Denver’s Fair Elections Fund candidates have to return unspent money or can they keep it?
Hint: The program is not a cash grab.

Things to do in Denver this weekend, Feb. 3-5
Black History Month events, food, music and more!

Ways to celebrate Black History Month in Denver
Here's how you can celebrate Black culture and history and support Black businesses and creators all month long.

A Highlands Ranch landscaping firm denied more than $200,000 in overtime wages to temporary workers
The U.S. Labor Department recovered hundreds of thousands of dollars from Grandview Landscaping Inc. it denied to temporary immigrant workers.

A water line break opened a massive hole at E. 9th Avenue and Eudora Street
You should probably avoid the area near the Rose Medical Center and find an alternate way home if you live nearby.

Denver Police is launching a dedicated fentanyl investigative unit
DPD cites an “ever-increasing epidemic of fentanyl distribution” as the reason for the team’s creation.

Andy Rougeot has lots of money, few donors and an uphill-looking battle to be Denver’s next mayor
If elected, he would hire 400 additional police officers, speed up permitting, cut regulations on new development and enforce the urban camping ban that makes unsheltered homelessness an arrestable offense.

Denver’s paying out another $1 million in matching campaign contributions, giving some mayoral campaigns a major boost
Nine of the 17 mayoral candidates are getting money in the January round of Fair Elections Fund disbursements.

Teen to be sentenced for 2020 Green Valley Ranch arson that killed 5 from Senegal
The fire killed five people, including a toddler.

District 10 candidate Noah Kaplan wants to bring an educator’s perspective to City Council
He says it's the Fair Elections Fund that got him in the race for District 10.

The latest round of e-bike rebates ran out fast again
Blink and you'll miss it.

Denver Rescue Mission set for another $9 million from the city
The nonprofit's handbook previously banned employees from acting on same-sex attraction and rejecting their "biological sex," but the city says it’s now in compliance with Denver's anti-discriminatory policies.

The good and bad of Denver’s very snowy January
The metro area is trending warmer and dryer — but January bucked the trend.

Sub-zero temps could skew Denver’s Point in Time count of people experiencing homelessness
Outreach workers hit the streets at 4 a.m. on Jan. 31.

Denver City Council votes to decriminalize jaywalking
Advocates cited racial disparities in who gets tickets.

Denver nonprofit Urban Peak lost state grant due to “performance issues”
The $500,000 grant was used to fund clinical mental health support for youth experiencing homelessness.

Denver weather: It’s COLD out there
Snow is likely Monday.