Just a year after record snowfall throughout much of the Rocky Mountain West, the region is locked in a snow drought not seen since Jimmy Carter surrendered the White House to Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s. The record dry conditions have lawmakers and industry observers extremely concerned about looming water shortages and wildfire danger.
First lady Michelle Obama and her daughters Malia and Sasha are skiing Vail Mountain today, according to several sources and local reports. President Barack Obama reportedly did not accompany his family to Vail for the Presidents Day Weekend.
It’s an only-in-Colorado kind of story. Where else do people freak about whether Big Brother is watching them … on the ski slopes?
Radio frequency identity (RFID) chips embedded in season ski passes allow snow riders to effortlessly glide through…
Sen. Mark Udall’s bill to promote year-round recreation at ski areas cleared a critical committee vote late last week and is headed to a vote of the full U.S. Senate.
First introduced in 2008 and then revived last summer,…
Badly needed snowfall is expected in Colorado’s high country this week, but one expert says the state will need much more than the amount in the forecast to stave off drought on par with the one that marked the parched…
Breckenridge, the quaint Victorian mountain town at the base of the state’s most popular ski area, suddenly is known around the nation as the highest town in Colorado’s high country – and not at all because of its 9,600-foot elevation.…
Colorado Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet earlier this week introduced the Senate version of U.S. Rep. John Salazar’s San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act, which would protect more than 60,000 acres of public lands in southwestern Colorado as either wilderness…
The debate over a uranium mill proposed by a Canadian company in the western end of Montrose County has come down to a question of what people would rather have in their back yard: uranium processing, farms and ranches, or…
Today marks exactly one month since Vail shut down its lifts for the season, and if you can find anyone in town who didn’t flee to the desert of the beach weeks ago, they’ll tell you it’s been snowing hard…
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