And, in case you missed it before casting your ballot, Eleanor Bennett, reporting for our joint Social Justice Desk with ...

Water managers from the seven states that share the Colorado River have blown a deadline given to them by the federal ...

Despite being a nonpartisan race where candidates’ party labels are not displayed on the ballot, the candidates have expressed opposing views on politicized issues such as a rise in school shootings, ...

No trespassing signs line a section of the Fryingpan River flowing through private property upstream of Basalt. The Fryingpan is a popular stream for anglers, though public access is limited. Credit: ...

A car departs the parking area outside the Geo ICE Detention Center in Aurora on Oct. 7. All 37 people arrested by ICE agents this year between Jan. 20 and July 28 in Pitkin, Eagle and Garfield ...

A “peaking” instream-flow water right would keep in the stream all of the water not claimed by someone else during years with high spring runoff, thereby maintaining these periodic floods, which are ...

Colorado River Water Conservation District General Manager Andy Mueller speaks at the hearing on the Shoshone water rights on Thursday in Durango. The River District says the Western Slope must ...

Law student Kristina “Tina” Velichkovikj reviews the Colorado labor department’s final determination on her wage complaint filed last year against Aspen Meadows Resort. Velichkovikj, who worked as a ...

Kate Collins from the Middle Colorado Watershed Council speaks at the groundbreaking for the Roan Creek fish barrier in August. The project aims to protect a rare type of Colorado cutthroat trout.

The penstocks and main building at the Shoshone hydropower plant, which is owned by Xcel Energy and uses water diverted from the Colorado River to produce electricity. The River District and Front ...

In hot, dry and windy conditions, the Crosho Fire ignited Aug. 11 near Yampa grows larger on Aug. 13. Credit: Kari Dequine/Aspen Journalism As an Aspen Journalism donor, you already know the value of ...

An undated historic photo shows the U.S. Forest Service ranger near the Mount of the Holy Cross. Before the turn of the 20th century, public lands lacked formal protection. “Nowhere has the strength ...