Andrew Kenney
Andrew Kenney covers Denver and its government. His work explores how urbanization is reshaping Colorado's cities and whom it benefits, focusing on housing, sustainability, culture and government accountability. He previously worked as a reporter for The (Raleigh) News & Observer and for Denverite. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was honored with the Associated Press' Walter Spearman Award for young writers in 2015, among other recognition.
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Denver will turn car lanes into bus lanes on two more major downtown streets
The city of Denver will convert lanes on sections of 15th and 17th streets downtown to serve transit riders and bicyclists.

Shift to e-books puts crunch on Denver Public Library
All around the country, the digital upheaval of the publishing industry is throwing public libraries into a modern crisis that will stretch their budgets and, they warn, potentially limit their...

They saved an infant at the Denver Zoo. Then they got to meet her.
Three families converged on the Denver Zoo on a fateful morning this August. At the time, they were strangers.

The Denver Zoo’s Tensing the rhino is pregnant with a watermelon-sized fetus
Tensing, a one-horned rhinoceros at the Denver Zoo, is going on 11 months pregnant -- and she's not due until March.

Denver weather: Warm, sunny days continue this week
The Front Range is set for several sunny days, and it may get warmer again despite the arrival of fall on Monday.

Colorado joins lawsuit to protect new automobile standards from Trump
Colorado has joined California, other states and the District of Columbia in a legal fight preserve states' rights to set environmental standards for automobiles.

Denver housing help is a 1-in-21 long shot for working poor
Denver's Section 8 lottery, available online at denverhousing.org until midnight Friday, has seen its number of applicants double over the last decade. Thatap in part a result of an easier...

Denver minimum wage would be $13.80 in January under proposal
A new proposal to set a local minimum wage for anyone who works in Denver would set the minimum at $13.80 per hour starting Jan. 1 and raise it to...

Denver leaders propose citywide $15-an-hour minimum wage
Denver is joining a national trend in considering raising its local minimum wage -- the first city in Colorado to do so. A proposal to be announced Thursday would raise...

Judge dismisses Lisa Calderón’s lawsuit against Denver, but her lawyer hints at another
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by former Denver mayoral candidate and current city employee Lisa Calderón against Mayor Michael Hancock's administration. Calderón sued the city in...