A flag flies at half staff in memoriam for RTD security guard Scott Von Lanken in front of Union Station, Feb. 1, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

You can’t just sit anywhere at Denver’s Union Station because this 2012 contract gave up control over some of its public space

If you're sitting in some parts of the Great Hall, you might be asked to show a receipt.

Sue Sanders poses for a portrait inside her car, where she sleeps at night in this Centennial Walmart parking lot, Feb. 19, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Metro Denver voters are worried about the cost of housing. They’re not alone.

It's a calculation people will make when they cast their votes Tuesday.

Sandy Pfeiffer sings to Jerry the horse to keep him calm before the parade begins. The 112th National Western Stock Show begins with a parade through downtown Denver, Jan. 4, 2018. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Kat Gorrie, facility manager for Denver's new storage program at 303 West Colfax Avenue, opens one of the recently installed lockers. Feb. 28, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Denver provides 200 lockers for people experiencing homelessness at Minoru Yasui Plaza

A concept design for the Hub in Montbello. (Courtesy of Montbello Organizing Committee)

A Montbello organization wants to build a massive community center and housing project on land it bought from RTD

Montbello Organizing Committee announced this week they've bought a former RTD site. They hope to make it the future home of a community center anchored by a grocery store.

Electric vehicles line Bannock Street in front of Denver's City and County Building, Sept. 19, 2019. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Denver will ban cars in front of its city hall and ‘give it back to the people’ on April 21

Vehicles out, people in, by order of the mayor.

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Security lines weren't actually that bad at Denver International Airport on a very snowy day, Oct. 29, 2019. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

DIA boss Kim Day says Coronavirus risk at the airport is low

“Centers for Disease Control has made a decision which airports they think are high risk and they are monitoring them. We are not on that list."

Reps. Jovan Melton and Adrienne Benavidez testify about their bill, HB-20-1233, before Colorado's Transportation and Local Government Committee. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Urban camping bans survive state house attempt to limit them

A Colorado House committee has rejected a proposal that was meant to help people experiencing homelessness statewide.

A rendering of new waiting areas to go along with new gates for Southwest Airlines in Terminal C at DIA. (Courtesy, Denver International Airport)

Southwest aims to add 16 gates and a host of new flights at Denver International Airport

Denver is the airline's fastest-growing market ever.

A tiny rhino, if that’s not an oxymoron, has been born at Denver’s zoo

She needs a name.

Wai Mo and a colleague roll sticky buns in the back of Pacific Ocean Marketplace, Feb. 25, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Concerns over the coronavirus are affecting some Asian-owned businesses in Denver

A poll from the Colorado Asian Chamber of Commerce found Chinese restaurants are feeling the largest impact.

Digstown, 2005 Willow St., Stapleton. Feb. 25, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Digstown in Stapleton might go from doggy daycare to human hair care

The owner would be entitled to build 3 stories but has no concrete plans to do that.

Outside the new The Molecule Effect location on Logan Street. Feb. 25, 2020. (Esteban L. Hernandez/Denverite)

The Molecule Effect is opening a new coffee shop in Wash Park West

The space will serve food and booze and include bar seating.

Alejandro Flores, Ruben Valentin and Silvia Hérnandez pose with morsels from their restaurants during a speed tasting event at the University of Denver's Schiol of Social Work. Feb. 25, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Small caterers get a foot in the door at DU

“The old system hasn’t worked for our communities. We need to figure out what works.”

Denver's old firestation number 10, now home to the Women's Bean Project in Five Points. Feb. 25, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Some Denver politicians cringe as the Women’s Bean Project considers leaving Curtis Park

The do-gooder nonprofit represents a community service in a gentrifying neighborhood.

Mercy Housing’s Home/Maker art exhibition on Market Street downtown, April 23, 2019. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Ismael Guerrero leaving Denver Housing Authority for national nonprofit

The head of DHA will now lead Mercy Housing.

Denver Fire Department Chief Eric Tade introduces Cora, the accelerant-sniffing dog, as she's officially welcomed to her new job, May 3, 2018. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Denver Fire Chief Eric Tade steps down

CBS4 reports his resignation is linked to some raunchy moments at the annual firefighter's ball.

Cindy the pit bull is set to be transferred out of the Denver Animal Shelter, Jan. 17, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Pit bulls will remain illegal in Denver

The Denver City Council on Monday was unable to overturn Mayor Hancock’s veto for a bill ending the ban.

A new sign at Denver Union Station forbids people who haven't spent money there from sitting, Feb. 24, 2020. (David Sachs/Denverite)

The public owns Denver’s Union Station but now only people with money can lounge there

Private companies are dictating who can and cannot be in certain parts of the transit hub.

Denver Homeless Out Loud activist Jerry Burton speaks at a Feb. 21, 2020 protest of a visit to Denver by Robert Marbut, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness. (Donna Bryson/Denverite)

Trump’s homelessness official questioned housing-first in Denver, and that didn’t sit well with some local providers

“There was no ask from him. This was him giving us information.”

Zelle the pit bull was set to be transferred out of the Denver Animal Shelter, Jan. 17, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Residents in areas with the highest number of pit bull calls share vastly different opinions on the breed

Talk over the pit bull ban is coming to a head as City Council considers overturning Mayor Hancock's veto today.

The Colorado School of Mines M on Lookout Mountain, Aug. 20, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Colorado School of Mines seeks to better understand hunger and homelessness among students

A look through a peephole into a room of mirrors, part of Devon Dikeou's "Mid-Career Smear" exhibition at her downtown art space. Feb. 20, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Devon Dikeou’s sort-of secret art space has re-opened downtown

She's replaced her art collection with art she made herself. She calls the yearlong exhibition her "Mid-Career Smear."

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