Firefighter helicopter Steve Cohen said that in his 25-year career, he has seen firsthand fires steadily increasing in size. It wasn’t that long ago, he said, that “we’d never heard of a 100,000-acre ...

Kari Dequine is a freelance journalist and mother of two. Born and raised in the Roaring Fork Valley, she spent the past 20 years working as a staff writer for newspapers in New Orleans, Colorado and ...

Streamflows on the Western Slope have plummeted over the last month, sending water managers scrambling to boost flows for ...

Colorado has conditional water rights tied to 2.6 million acre-feet worth of additional reservoir storage on the Western Slope ...

Time is ticking for states that share the shrinking Colorado River to negotiate a new set of governing rules. One major sticking point, which has the potential to thrust the parties into a protracted ...

A site map of the Lift One corridor project from 2020 shows where historic buildings and new lodging developments will fit along South Aspen Street, as illustrated by Design Workshop and posted on the ...

As a shy and bearded young architecture student at the University of Southern California in the spring of 1970, Gary Anderson happened upon a flyer advertising a graphic-design contest. It called for ...

The Licensed Provider Survey Data Report, released last month by Confluence Early Childhood Education Coalition (CECE), showed that there is about one licensed spot available for every two kids across ...

This system, used widely in the western United States, creates an opening for investors who see water as an increasingly valuable commodity in a water-short future, driven by climate change.

Since 2017, Water Asset Management has spent $16.6 million buying up 2,222 acres of irrigated agricultural land in the communities of Fruita, Loma and Mack, west of Grand Junction.

Consultants studying the airport for Pitkin County predicted in 2013 that the CRJ-700 fleet would be phased out “sometime in the next decade,” with retirements beginning in 2018. Half the fleet would ...

Aspen’s community has proved resilient despite dramatic changes that have long inflamed a cathartic sense of loss. Aspenites are contentious about change because change alters the experience that ...