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The Battle for Battle Mountain

The fate of a high-dollar, private ski-and-golf resort adjacent to Vail is now largely in hands of voters. Tucked away in a narrow valley between...

Eagle County Fights to Hold Down Housing Prices as National Market...

While the rest of the nation watched home prices plunge precipitously in the first quarter of 2008, officials in Eagle County - where the...

Rifle Booms Under Record Housing Starts, Construction Projects

Go anywhere in Rifle within a three-mile radius of downtown and you'll find a construction project in progress. Because of the oil and gas...

Housing Crisis Squeezes County Budgets Too

Foreclosures and the subsequent decrease in overall property values could lead to budget problems for some Colorado counties.Dropping property values - a major source...

Tightening Market Offers Silver Lining in Mortgage Crisis

Despite all the gloomy foreclosure news, it's an excellent time to buy a house for some, while an impossible time for others - which...

New Man Camp Regs May Test Private Property Rights

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?...

How Low Can It Go? A New Housing Crisis Emerges

Gov. Bill Ritter today announced a $1.5 million grant to provide free foreclosure prevention counseling services to at-risk homeowners. At the same time, Washington...

State of U.S. Latinos has Suffered in Bush-led Union, Hispanic Leaders...

George W. Bush won the White House in 2004 with the help of large numbers of Latino voters. But his failure to push through...

Valley Symposium: Looking into the Crystal Ball

The Roaring Fork/Eagle County region in Western Colorado is sometimes identified as the Golden Triangle. The social and economic boundaries stretch from Aspen to...

Western Slope Bucks Housing Trends

A home construction slump and falling prices are the norm on the Front Range as in the nation, but it couldn't get any better...