Managing Editor

Matt Sebastian

Matt Sebastian is managing editor of The Denver Post. He joined the staff as a senior editor overseeing the enterprise team in 2018 after a 20-year career at the Daily Camera in Boulder that included stints as city editor, entertainment editor, music critic and news reporter. A University of Colorado graduate, he also previously worked as a reporter at newspapers in Utah and the San Francisco Bay Area — but kept coming back to the Centennial State.

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Neil Young during the Roskilde Festival ...

Neil Young’s “Colorado”: Inside the Crazy Horse reunion at a studio outside Telluride

September 17, 2022 at 3:15 p.m.

Recorded in the San Juan mountains during a full moon, Neil Young's new album, "Colorado," has strong ties to Telluride.

Craig Scott, Darrell Scott, Heather Martin, ...

Columbine families, survivors reflect on hope and healing 20 years after one of Colorado’s darkest days

April 20, 2019 at 8:48 a.m.

Ten Columbine family members and survivors agreed to talk to local journalists last month about April 20, 1999, and the very personal aftermath of what’s now the one-word shorthand for...

Owner Dave Stidman (left) jokes with ...

Denver’s Wax Trax Records rocks 40-year milestone as new doc traces famed label’s Mile High roots

September 17, 2022 at 3:30 p.m.

What goes around certainly has come around for Dave Stidman and Duane Davis, a pair of former social workers who bought Wax Trax 40 years ago this week.

An L-Line light rail train travels southwest on Welton Street

Denver traffic impacts expected as RTD tests light-rail trains ahead of L Line’s return

September 17, 2024 at 8:55 a.m.

RTD will be running trains at various times in both directions along Welton Street between the 20th/Welton and 30th/Downing stations from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. this week, starting Monday,...

Collin Hoffmann has fun in the pool with his daugther Nell who just turned 2 yesterday at Congress Park Pool in Denver on June 24, 2024. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

Denver weather: Front Range’s bad-air streak ends as soaring temperatures ease slightly

July 15, 2024 at 7:30 a.m.

The milder temperatures also bring an improvement to the Front Range’s air quality, with the region not under an ozone alert Monday morning for the first time in nearly a...

South Metro Fire Rescue crews at the scene of a fire in a Public Storage facility on South Parker Road on Sunday, July 14, 2024. (Photo via South Metro Fire Rescue on X)

Dozens of units damaged after fire tears through Public Storage facility on South Parker Road

July 15, 2024 at 6:51 a.m.

The fire at the Public Storage facility at 5212 S. Parker Road was reported around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, according to South Metro Fire Rescue.

Aurora police seek Pontiac Grand Am involved in fatal hit-and-run

July 15, 2024 at 6:42 a.m.

The Aurora Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding a vehicle after a driver struck and killed a pedestrian on Saturday morning and fled the scene.

A car gets on to E-470 in October 2019 in Lone Tree.

E-470 reopened in Aurora after firefighters halt spread from burning truck

July 15, 2024 at 7:58 a.m.

Northbound E-470 in Aurora was reopened Monday morning following a semitrailer fire that sent smoke across the roadway, which led authorities to divert traffic onto Interstate 70 for a period...

Police closed U.S. 85 near E. 104th Avenue following a multi-vehicle hit-and-run crash on Thursday, May 16, 2024. (Photo via Commerce City Police Department)

U.S. 85 reopens near E. 104th Ave. after “massive crash”

May 16, 2024 at 3:17 p.m.

Northbound U.S. 85 reopened near East 104th Avenue on Thursday after what Commerce City police called a "massive crash" involving a semitrailer and a dump truck.

CDOT traffic camera screenshot of Interstate 70 at Quebec Street on Monday, May 13, 2024. (Image via CDOT)

Eastbound I-70 reopens at Quebec Street after crash

May 13, 2024 at 6:02 p.m.

Eastbound Interstate 70 reopened at Quebec Street after a crash closed the highway Monday afternoon, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.

Agnes Hernandez, left, and her husband Raymond look at the damage outside their home in Lakewood after strong winds downed tree limbs in the area, October 11, 2013. (Photo By RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Denver weather: Extreme winds fuel apartment fire, power outages

April 6, 2024 at 6:14 p.m.

As of Saturday morning, maximum gusts were expected to be in the 60 mph to 65 mph range in Denver, in the 75 mph to 80 mph range in the...

An image from the FBI's arrest affidavit of Hunter Palm allegedly shows him sitting in a conference room in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. (Photo via Department of Justice)

Colorado man accused of entering Nancy Pelosi’s office on Jan. 6 sentenced to 3 years of probation

January 5, 2024 at 6:23 p.m.

A Colorado man accused of entering U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to three years of probation...

Jared Cassier of Denver takes a walk with his dog Piper at Sloan's Lake Park in Denver on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. Denver flirted with a record high temperature on Tuesday as the mercury creeped into the upper 60s just days before the start of winter.
The temperature high reached 67 degrees in some parts of Denver, tying a mark set in 1917, according to the National Weather Service.

Denver weather: Record-tying high reached Tuesday ahead of likely snow on Christmas Eve

December 19, 2023 at 6:46 p.m.

The temperature high reached 67 degrees in some parts of Denver, tying a mark set in 1917, according to the National Weather Service.

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