Colorado Mesa University has drawn Pacific Islanders to the Western Slope for decades.

The Western Colorado University historian will start his 58th year of classes in the fall.

Grand Junction, a blossoming city at the intersection of two rivers, is hitting its stride.

Terry Nash is an award-winning cowboy poet who draws from his own experience as a rancher on the Western Slope.

Iola has been deep underwater since the reservoir was built and filled in the 1960s. Drought has brought it back to the surface, for now.

The bike-rack entrepreneur and outdoor-recreation activist is moving his Front Range company to the Western Slope.

She was a pitcher in 1946 for the professional women's baseball team made famous by "A League of Their Own."

All of the domestic uranium used in the Manhattan Project—about 14 percent—came from Grand Junction. The rest came from foreign countries.

Archaeologist Chris Fisher has researched ruins in Honduras and Mexico, including one called the "Lost City of the Monkey God."

Tin Cup in Gunnison County looks like so many other mining communities-turned-ghost towns, but the locals want you to know it's very much alive.

The Grand Mesa Observatory perches on the edge of the world's largest mesa and peers into the cosmos.

Doak's devotion to the dying was recently featured in a profile for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.

Many Rivers Brewing on the Western Slope donates 100 percent of its profits to river improvement projects.

The city's waterfront was housed junkyards and even a uranium mill. Now there's a brewery and townhomes, and a outdoor recreation park on the way.

Bill Masters has been in office for 38 years, and he's seeking an 11th four-year term.

The iconic cowboy-themed dinner theater celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.