A fire ruled electrical, a beating called robbery, eleven quick sales below market. On one block of Broadway, evidence takes a witness.

Two years since Denver’s midnight king last played a room. A dead girl at a party he never booked, and three thin threads.

Drive-bys are down and the mayor is encouraged. The overdose ledger and the missing-person files read differently.

A sprinkler crew at Cheesman Park brought up bones this week. The city laid its pipe, rolled the sod back down, and said little.

At the shut opera house on Curtis Street, an old gilder works nights for a trust that pays cash and has been waiting since 1897.

A Delaware partnership has bought nine of downtown’s empty towers, cleared out the last tenants, and answers questions with one sentence.