REDSTONE - A national environmental organization named the Crystal River one of 2012's most endangered rivers in America on Tuesday because of the threat of dams and diversions.
American Rivers ranked the Crystal as the eighth

ASPEN - The Colorado Water Trust has received 16 formal offers from water-rights holders to participate in a pilot program aimed at boosting streamflows in rivers across the state this summer.
The upper Roaring Fork River, whic

ASPEN - Aspen Skiing Co. considers the 2011-12 season a success even though skier visits fell 1.8 percent from the prior winter.
"Given the state of the industry, given the state of the state, given the state of the regio

ASPEN - After an exhaustive search process, the Aspen School District has hired an Ohio educator as Aspen High's next principal.
"I would be remiss if I didn't say that we had several very qualified candidates, ... but cl

ASPEN - The national forest surrounding Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley is ripe for wildfires, according to Scott Fitzwilliams, supervisor of the White River National Forest.
But while the Forest Service and other agencies ar

SNOWMASS VILLAGE - Sky Mountain Park near Snowmass Village reopens Wednesday after a spring that tested the patience of hikers and mountain bikers who were eager to hit the park's Skyline Ridge Trail.
Not everyone resisted temp

ASPEN - The city's Aspen Tap program will expand this summer with the arrival and installation of three new water-filling stations, environmental health specialist Ashley Cantrell said Tuesday.
The stations - which supply

LOS ANGELES - Aaron Sorkin is going from Facebook to Apple.
Sony Pictures officials say the Oscar-winning writer will write a screenplay based on the Steve Jobs biography written by Aspen Institute CEO Walter Isaacson.
Sony Pi

ASPEN - The city of Aspen had hired a California company to drill a test well for geothermal energy during the current offseason, but the project has been pushed back to the fall.
In November and December, Dan's Water Well & Pu

GLENWOOD SPRINGS - When a group of open space program managers and supporters from around the state gathered in Glenwood Springs last fall for the yearly Colorado Open Space Alliance conference, there was a bit of irony involved

ASPEN - As part of its continuing Democracy Dialogues series, the Aspen Democracy Initiative will host a guest speaker Wednesday at BB's Kitchen, 525 E. Cooper Ave.
Matthew Hamilton, director of sustainability for Aspen Skiing

I received an e-mail survey from Aspen public radio station KJAX asking, "Where you listen, how you listen, what programs you listen to, when you listen and why you listen," followed by a little, bitty box in which to enca

I have recently developed a deep personal loathing for a man named Jeffery Smisek.
Never heard of him?
Oh yes, you know who he is.
Actually, I have never met this Smisek creature, but his annoying face and syrupy, fake-sincere wea

Dear Editor:
I would like to announce the first-ever Aspen Ideas Block Party to be held at Rio Grande Park on July 1. This will be a day in the park filled with food, fun, festivities, and, most of all, creativity and the exchange of

Dear Editor:
National Police Week, also known as National Law Enforcement Memorial Week, occurs each year during the week of May 15 and recognizes the service and sacrifice of U.S. law enforcement. Established in 1962 by a joint cong

Dear Editor:
In the midst of all the bustle happening in downtown Willits these days, there is a quiet triumph, a thrilling, visionary space called Taking Flight in a modest storefront directly across from Whole Foods.
This pop-up

DENVER - Opponents of same-sex unions rallied at the Colorado Capitol on Tuesday as tensions remained high one day after state House Republicans rejected a proposal to provide gay couples rights similar to marriage.

Dozens of

SALT LAKE CITY - A small company that holds a federal lease to extract petroleum from oil shale reserves in western Colorado is taking a new approach to withdrawing crude oil from solid rock - one that it hopes will avoid

DENVER - A marijuana blood limit for drivers was rejected Tuesday for a third time in Colorado, as lawmakers from both parties argued about how to fairly gauge whether someone is too stoned to get behind the wheel.

The bill w

REDSTONE - American Rivers on Tuesday named the Crystal River among America's Most Endangered Rivers, shining a national spotlight on the threat dams and water diversions pose to spectacular recreation and fish and wildlif