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In the mountains, gas prices are usually 20 to 30 cents higher than in the metro area, and workers commute longer distances between work and home because of high housing prices in resort areas. With gasoline prices nearing $4 a gallon, employees in the Roaring Fork area between Parachute and Aspen are adjusting their driving [...]

When horse slaughterhouses closed in the U.S. two years ago, it caused a glut of unwanted horses in the marketplace. High feed prices and expenses have forced some horse owners to abandon their animals, not unlike the cats and dogs that fill animal shelters. However, there are few horse adoption shelters, so these animals are [...]

Drinking Liberally’s conservative counterpart is establishing roots in Denver.

Ludwig Kurz, former Vail mayor and current director of community relations for nearby Beaver Creek resort, would like to see people in ski boots and goggles wandering the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver.

John Scalzo: Rifle’s Contrary Visionary
The Western Slope is changing faster than spring weather these days, and small rural towns like Rifle are losing their original character. Time is marching on, too, for many of the old-timers who shaped Rifle’s colorful past, and they are passing away unnoticed in the hurricane of growth.

One of Rifle’s [...]

When Vice President Dick Cheney flew into Grand Junction on Friday for a fund-raiser for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer, anti-war and pro-impeachment protesters organized along two different routes Cheney’s entourage was expected to take to the event.

Joseph Hayes, an Air Force veteran of the Vietnam War and now an activist with Veterans [...]

Vice President Dick Cheney will be in Grand Junction Friday morning for a private fund-raiser for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer. Cheney can expect more than a friendly response from local Republicans – anti-war groups also plan a demonstration along his route to the fund-raiser, a Cheney “unwelcoming party.”

Warlocks, cybernetic super-soldiers and card sharks are forming an unlikely alliance against a formidable enemy — Internet service providers that want to charge certain customers higher monthly fees for online access.

Will oil and gas companies be allowed to set up small temporary man camps on private land without the landowner’s permission or county review? Three Garfield County commissioners will be determining that proposal today.

It was the first meeting of Colorado’s Shooting Liberally, a new social club created to foster an appreciation of firearms from the left of the political spectrum, and attendees were anxious to fire off a few rounds – even if it was their first time doing so.