Jesse Bedayn

An aerial view shows Hillside Villa, bottom center, an apartment complex where Marina Maalouf is a longtime tenant, in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

As affordable housing disappears, states like Colorado scramble to shore up the losses

October 6, 2024 at 1:27 p.m.

While Americans continue to struggle under unrelentingly high rents, as many as 223,000 affordable housing units across the U.S. could be yanked out from under them in the next five...

FILE – A hearse and debris sit behind the Return to Nature Funeral Home, Oct. 5, 2023, in Penrose, Colo. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP, File)

Families whose loved ones were left rotting in Colorado funeral home owed $950 million, judge rules

August 5, 2024 at 5:21 p.m.

The Colorado funeral home owners who allegedly stored 190 decaying bodies and sent grieving families fake ashes were ordered by a judge to pay $950 million to the victims’ relatives...

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event in Elkins Park, Pa., May 8, 2024. Vice President Harris will speak at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation on Thursday, May 30, in Colorado, her first address at the ceremony that launches cadets into the Air Force or Space Force with pomp and the roar of jets. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Vice President Kamala Harris to address U.S. Air Force Academy graduates in Colorado

June 12, 2024 at 11:05 a.m.

Vice President Kamala Harris will speak in Falcon Stadium, which can host upwards of 46,000 people, during an election year, as details of a debate between Harris and Donald Trump鈥檚...

FILE – Attendees protest the one-year anniversary of Colorado’s abortion law, the Reproductive Health Equity Act, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, outside the State Capitol in downtown Denver. A Colorado abortion fund said Thursday, May 9, 2024, it’s helped hundreds access abortion in the first months of 2024, many arriving from Texas and other states where abortion is restricted, showing a continued increase in demand since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Colorado-based abortion fund sees rising demand. Many are from Texas, where procedure is restricted.

May 10, 2024 at 8:03 a.m.

The U.S. Supreme Court抖阴ap decision left a patchwork of state bans, restrictions and protections across the country. In response, a national makeshift network of individuals and organizations help those seeking...

A sign covers the broken back window of the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo., Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. The remains of at least 189 decaying bodies were found and removed from the Colorado funeral home. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Fake ashes and rotting bodies prompt Colorado lawmakers to pass funeral home regulations

May 6, 2024 at 12:12 p.m.

Colorado lawmakers passed a sweeping bill to overhaul funeral home oversight after a series of horrific incidents, including聽sold body parts,聽fake ashes聽and the聽discovery of 190 decaying bodies.

Colorado Sun reporter Sandra Fish, left, turns over media credentials to a Pueblo County sheriff's deputy and arena security staffer during the Colorado Republican Party's state assembly inside Southwest Motors Events Center on the state fairgrounds in Pueblo, Colo., on Saturday, April 6, 2024. The state GOP had Fish ejected from the event because party chairman Dave Williams said he believes the outlet's "reporting to be very unfair." (Ernest Luning/The Gazette via AP)

Reporter鈥檚 expulsion from Colorado Republican Party state assembly causes uproar

April 9, 2024 at 8:49 a.m.

Journalists and elected officials, including the former chair of the Colorado Republican Party, came to the defense of Colorado Sun reporter Sandra Fish.

Miles Harford appears in court to hear the charges against him on Friday, March 8, 2024, in Denver. Harford, a former funeral home owner accused of keeping a woman's corpse in the back of a hearse for two years and hoarding the cremated remains of 35 people, has been charged with forgery, theft and abuse of a corpse. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert, Pool)

More cremated remains found at funeral home owner鈥檚 Denver house, prosecutors say

March 8, 2024 at 1:43 p.m.

The owner of a Jefferson County funeral home who is accused of keeping a woman鈥檚 corpse in the back of a hearse for over a year, along with stashing over...

From left, George Rosales of Denver speaks as Colorado State Representative Matt Soper, R-Delta, and State Sen. Dhylan Roberts, D-Eagle, listen during a news conference to unveil bipartisan legislation to license funeral home professionals in Colorado Monday, March 4, 2024, the State Capitol in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Rotting bodies, fake ashes and sold body parts push Colorado to patch lax funeral home rules

March 4, 2024 at 4:22 p.m.

After nearly 200 bodies were found stacked and rotting in a Colorado funeral home, lawmakers have proposed bills to overhaul the state鈥檚 threadbare funeral home regulations, which failed to prevent...

Chrystina Page, right, holds back Heather De Wolf, as she yells at Jon Hallford, left, the owner of Back to Nature Funeral Home, as he leaves with his lawyers following a preliminary hearing, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, outside the El Paso County Judicial Building in Colorado Springs, Colo. Hallford and his wife, Carie Hallford, are each charged with 190 counts of abuse of a corpse, five counts of theft, four counts of money laundering and over 50 counts of forgery. De Wolf and Page are mothers of sons believed to be among the bodies found at the funeral home. (Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP)

Nearly 200 abused corpses were found at a Colorado funeral home. Why did it take authorities years to act?

February 9, 2024 at 4:33 p.m.

The newly unsealed arrest affidavits for Jon and Carie Hallford raise questions about how the mistreatment of corpses was able to continue for so long. Colorado has some of the...

Colorado state Sen. Tony Exum Jr. holds a placard during a rally to unveil an eviction protections bill being advanced by Democratic lawmakers Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, in Denver. Monthly rent has outpaced income across the U.S., and forced many to make tough decisions between everyday necessities and a home. In turn, a record number of people are becoming homeless and evictions filings have ratcheted up as pandemic-era eviction moratoriums and federal assistance ends. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

A record number of Americans can’t afford their rent. Lawmakers are scrambling to help

February 7, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

Single mom Caitlyn Colbert watched as rent for her two-bedroom apartment doubled, then tripled and then quadrupled over a decade in Denver 鈥� from $750 to $3,374 last year.

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