- The opening of the Palisade Plunge trail was a huge street party in the little town of Palisade last summer. But a year later, there are also calls for caution, following the heart-related death of a rider on the Plunge. Even the trail’s biggest supporters are looking at how the 32-mile odyssey can be improved.
- Every June, many of Colorado’s biggest cities host huge Pride parades, parties and drag shows. Many smaller, more rural communities have nothing at all to mark the occasion, but that's not true everywhere.
- Boebert defeated Don Coram in the Republican primary race.
- Like many communities on the Western Slope, Grand Junction does not have an abortion clinic. The closest is 90 miles away in Glenwood Springs.
- The state had its worst year of drownings in 2020, with 34 deaths. But at the rate this year is going, 2022 could exceed that.
- There’s a delicate balance to be struck: In addition to preservation, the future of these lands also depends on people experiencing them, telling others and raising awareness of the need to protect them.
- In Mesa County’s largest school district, a meme shared on social media by the president of the school board has many parents calling her transphobic — and others stepping up to defend her.
- On Tuesday, abortion-rights supporters across Colorado protested against the leaked Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v.
- One day in 1945, right before he was supposed to leave for Germany, Grand Junction resident Joe Esquibel discovered that one of his bags was missing. It would take nearly 80 years, but he got its contents back, and now he's made friends with the man who returned them.
- Despite a slow start to the winter ski season, some Colorado ski areas are still going strong into May. Here's what may be open well into the month.
- While the history of pond skimming is about as hazy as an unfiltered IPA, many people trace it back to Alberta, Canada, in the late 1920s. In Colorado in the spring, it's alive and well.
- Colorado’s driver licenses – yes, they’re now officially called driver licenses – not driver’s – have a new look: The craggy outline of a mountain against a sunset-filled sky and in the foreground, a forest and hills. The image is based on a photo of Mount Sneffels on the Western Slope. The photographer is Matt Nuñez, of Lone Tree. The public chose his picture as part of a contest.
- On March 15, 2020, Colorado's ski resorts shut down after an order from Gov. Jared Polis. Two years later, things may finally be returning to normal.
- For decades, these small ski areas — sometimes no bigger than a hill right in town — have been the place for locals to go and for skiing to stay accessible for all.
- After a Douglas County school board fired its superintendent, some in Mesa County worried that their incoming superintendent was next. D51 officials say they were never going to fire any administrators, but they did renegotiate the new superintendent's contract this week.
- Mia's owners got in a car crash and Mia got lost outside Gypsum in Colorado's mountains. How they all ended up back together is quite the story.
