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Cars, wildfires and global warming are creating respiratory risks like never before, but officials worry not enough people are aware.

Despite the defeat of the right-to-survive ballot measure, advocates for people experiencing homelessness are leveraging the issue’s newfound visibility.

Discriminatory housing policies contributed to today’s disparities in access to green space and playgrounds.

$45 million in new funding should provide new mental health services, and keep more people in mental health crises out of jail. 

Displacement from gentrification can have a long-lasting effect on health and well-being. Some residents in northeast Denver are experiencing this firsthand.

Denver’s new Heat Vulnerability Map shows how climate change could impact some metro area residents much more than others.

Though urban planners and policymakers have turned their attention to getting people out of cars for their health, not having access to a car can have health impacts of its own.

A new interactive website shows significant differences by county in terms of how effectively human services programs are provided in Colorado.

Mass shootings haunt everyone, but most victims of gun violence in America are young black men.

The city received a $4.2 million grant in June to help expand the program to more clients.