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Epic crowds collide with labor shortages at ski areas

A record number of pass holders arrive at Vail Resorts, but a critical labor shortage and quarantined workers has delayed terrain openings and cut services

DATE: Dec 31, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

Colorado Gators started as a natural garbage disposal. Now it’s a tourist attraction

Jay Young’s San Luis Valley oasis offers tourists close-up encounters with gators, snakes, turtles and lizards

DATE: Dec 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Family of Colorado avalanche victim drops one lawsuit, targets maker of air bag

Peter Marshall was killed in a January 2019 avalanche while taking a class near Red Mountain Pass

DATE: Dec 21, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Geographic naming board agrees to scrape offensive name from Chaffee County gulch

Board recommends renaming derogatory Chinaman Gulch as Yan Sing Gulch, which translates to ‘resilience’ in Chinese

DATE: Dec 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

The final phase of restoration in Glenwood Canyon turns to debris-choked Colorado River

The Colorado Department of Transportation is orchestrating the removal of hundreds of thousands of tons of debris flushed down the walls of Glenwood Canyon in July deluge

DATE: Dec 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Ron LeMaster, beloved ski coach, killed in collision at Eldora Mountain Resort

72-year-old was skiing Tuesday when he collided with a snowboarder

DATE: Dec 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Coloradans typically reject tax increases, except when it comes to funding parks and trails

Conservation could become a bipartisan issue that unites urban and rural voters

DATE: Nov 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Snow may not be piling up at Colorado ski resorts this season, but anxiety sure is

Coronavirus is still a worry, but now ski hill operators must wrestle with too few workers and not enough places to house the ones they’ve hired

DATE: Nov 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Feds say COVID cost the outdoor recreation industry $156 billion in 2020. But did it really?

Annual analysis shows a 19.5% decline, but that includes losses outside the industry

DATE: Nov 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado’s 2020-21 avalanche season was tied for deadliest. It’s helping forecasters hone warnings.

Slides killed 37 backcountry travelers last winter in U.S., including 12 in Colorado

DATE: Oct 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado governor urges board to reconsider naming mountain ‘Mestaa’ėhehe’

Gov. Jared Polis said ‘dots and dashes’ made it hard to pronounce

DATE: Oct 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado ski resorts are in an uphill battle for workers amid the historic labor shortage

‘Help wanted’ ads outnumber ‘for rent’ listings in communities enduring housing, worker shortages

DATE: Oct 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News