Denver Sky — Live
Checking the sky over Denver…
Live from the Open-Meteo weather service, the same feed the front door runs on.
Built from Nothing · Owned Outright
🗞️ THE DENVER NEWSROOM
Hometown headlines in the crew's own words — and a link to the folks who reported them first, on every single story. We summarize; we never lift.
✓ Checked by the crew on Tuesday, October 13, 2026 — refreshed by our daily sweep
Denver used to have two papers fighting over this town. The Rocky is gone; the Post still stands. This board is our corner of that tradition — headlines in our words, credit to the source, always. — honoring the Rocky Mountain News, 1859–2009
🗞️ Denver Headlines
City hall, neighborhoods, and the streets we all share.
City Council hears the tandem-homes plan today
Denver's Planning Board voted unanimously to back rezoning three Housing Authority properties in Barnum and Barnum West, so Habitat for Humanity can build income-restricted tandem homes for buyers earning up to 80% of the area median income. City Council holds its public hearing today, October 13.
Our take: Homeownership a working family can actually reach — that's the whole ballgame in this town. Watch this one.
East Colfax sidewalks take a step forward
A City Council committee backed the property agreements needed to fill sidewalk gaps and add accessible ramps along East Colfax between Quebec and Willow — part of the corridor's long rebuild. The measure sits on today's Mayor-Council agenda.
Our take: Sidewalks sound small until your grandma, your kid, or your delivery route needs one. Colfax deserves the glow-up.
Denver picks a 26-member board to write its data-center rules
Nearly five months after the city paused new data-center construction for a year, Mayor Mike Johnston named a 26-member advisory board — water, power, environmental, and industry voices — to debate the rules and bring back recommendations. The moratorium runs to May 2027, and towns all around Denver are passing their own.
Our take: The internet lives somewhere physical — and it drinks a lot of water. Denver's deciding what that costs. Smart of the city to argue it out in the open.
The fight for The Holly — Park Hill's heart is on the line
The Holly shopping center near 33rd and Holly — the commercial heart of Northeast Park Hill's Black community since the 1950s — is caught between two futures: a new co-owner's redevelopment plans (a community bank, ice cream parlor, vet clinic, boutique grocery) and longtime tenants fighting to keep the block's gathering places alive, leases and all.
Our take: Some blocks are just real estate. The Holly is a landmark with a heartbeat. Whatever comes next has to keep the people who built it.
Council pumps the brakes on citywide denser housing
A proposal called Unlocking Housing Choices — which would have let owners build duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes more widely across Denver — met pushback at City Council. The revised version shrinks to areas within a quarter mile of "transit priority streets," and housing advocates say the narrowed plan falls short.
Our take: Everybody agrees Denver needs more homes. Nobody agrees where. This argument isn't over — it's just getting started.
Front Range passenger rail heads to the November ballot
The Front Range Passenger Rail District board voted 14–1 to ask voters for a 0.333% sales tax — about 33 cents on every $100 — to fund passenger trains linking Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, and Fort Collins, with three daily trips envisioned starting in 2029 if it passes.
Our take: A train from Fort Collins to Pueblo changes what "the metro area" even means. Voters decide in November — this is your homework, Denver.
Bruz Beers says goodbye to Colfax
Bruz Beers closed its Colfax location September 24 — not for lack of love, the owners say, but to consolidate into a new flagship brewery planned for Golden by 2028, built for the canning line the Colfax space couldn't hold. Colfax's long bus-rapid-transit construction keeps squeezing the corridor's small shops.
Our take: Every closed storefront on Colfax is a neighbor's dream on pause. Shop the corridor while it rebuilds, Denver.
🏈 The Sports Desk
Broncos first — the way Mr. Realla Sport News likes it. Thursday night is coming.
Broncos host the champs Thursday — as home underdogs
Both clubs walk in at 3–2: Denver fresh off a 23–17 win over the Chargers, Seattle the defending Super Bowl champions, stinging from a 32–29 loss to San Francisco. Kickoff 6:15 PM MT at Empower Field, streaming on Prime Video — and the oddsmakers still make Seattle a slight favorite in our own house.
Desk call: Disrespected at home on a short week, with the thin air on our side? Sport News likes Denver's spot just fine.
Throwback Thursday: the best uniform matchup in football
Both teams will wear their throwback uniforms Thursday night — Seattle in its classic silver-and-blue, Denver in the 1977-inspired set the Broncos have gone 5–0 in since bringing it back in 2024. Uniform people are already calling it the best-looking matchup of the season.
Desk call: A crew that cares about family colors respects a 5–0 throwback record. Some looks are just lucky AND beautiful.
First meeting since the 2024 spat — and a Super Bowl that almost was
Thursday is the first Broncos–Seahawks meeting since 2024, when Seattle won 26–20 and the two head coaches spent the offseason in a very public disagreement — both sides now call it water under the bridge. There's a bigger ghost, too: Denver finished as the AFC runner-up last season, one win from facing these same Seahawks in the Super Bowl.
Desk call: October games aren't supposed to have this much history. This one carries a grudge, a ghost, and a short week. Settle in.
21+ · The Back Page →
🌦️ Denver Sky & Streets
The sky right now, and the street smarts for a two-game week downtown.
Streets — Game Week
Two home crowds, back to back
The Avalanche pack Ball Arena Wednesday night (Oct 14, 6:30 PM), then 70,000+ pour into Empower Field Thursday (Oct 15, 6:15 PM). Crew advice: light rail beats the Federal Blvd and I-25 crawl on game nights — roll in early, eat downtown, let the traffic clear after.
Streets — Colfax Watch
Sidewalks coming to East Colfax
The city's East Colfax sidewalk project (above) means short-term lane and access shuffles between Quebec and Willow while crews work — patience with the corridor's shops while the street gets its upgrade.