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Forest Service approves Aspen Skiing Co.’s Pandora expansion

ASPEN – The U.S. Forest Service has authorized Aspen Skiing Co.’s proposal to develop an additional 0.3 square miles of skiing on Aspen Mountain. The Aspen Times reports the au...

CU scientist: Climate change is going to make Colorado’s transportation woes much worse

Professor part of national report on climate change

Board in struggling Colorado district keeps hiring power

DENVER – The school board of a struggling Denver-area school district will lose most of its power but will retain the power to hire and fire employees. The Colorado State Board ...

Plan seeks to designate Route 66 as National Historic Trail

ALBUQUERQUE – A new proposal moving through Congress seeks to designate Route 66, the highway that connected Chicago to Los Angeles and was once an economic driver for small towns across a p...

Colorado sisters killed when train hits car in Platteville

GREELEY – Two sisters from Greeley were identified as the victims of a collision between a train and a car in northern Colorado. The Greeley Tribune reports obituaries identify ...

Vail ski academy teacher dies in snowboarding accident

MINTURN – A Vail ski academy teacher has died in a backcountry snowboarding accident at the East Vail Chutes. Fellow snowboarder John Spriggs tells the Vail Daily that Bindu Sky P...

New Mexico crafts new rules for crisis triage centers

SANTA FE – New Mexico health officials have crafted a new set of regulations and licensing requirements for behavioral health crisis triage centers. The state Health Department ...

Decision results in shake-up on New Mexico oil and gas panel

ALBUQUERQUE – A decision by New Mexico oil and gas regulators to ease restrictions on well locations for a Texas-based company operating in one of the nation’s oldest producing basins has re...

Man dies in backcountry skiing accident in central Colorado

VAIL – Authorities say a 44-year-old man died after attempting a jump while backcountry skiing in central Colorado. According to the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office, the man was ski...

Erie man dies after getting caught in tractor drill

BOULDER – Investigators say a northern Colorado man was killed when his clothing apparently became caught in drilling equipment. Erie Police Chief Kim Stewart tells The Daily Came...

Murdered woman’s family sues husband for wrongful death

DENVER – The parents of a Colorado woman murdered by her husband are seeking financial damages in a lawsuit filed on the same day he was sentenced to life in prison. Christopher W...

Suspect in road rage shooting gets more time to enter plea

BRIGHTON – A judge has given a Colorado man more time to enter a plea to charges that he fatally shot a 13-year-old boy and wounded three people, including the boy’s mother and younger broth...