Colorado

MONTROSE – Keith Carey is a gunsmith in Montrose, a town with a frontier flavor set amid the rocky mesas of western Colorado. He’s a staunch, though soft-spoken, defender of the right to bear arms....

SUMMIT COUNTY – The recent snowfall has been a blessing for the north-central Colorado ski resorts, but it also helps the state play catch up in meeting growing water needs once the spring thaw...

DENVER – Marijuana legalization stands in Colorado – for now – after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday opted not to hear a challenge brought by neighboring states. Attorneys general for Oklahoma and...

GRAND JUNCTION (AP) – A Grand Junction teenager whose long battle with cancer became a national story and who got a surprise visit from international pop icon Taylor Swift has died, said her...

Skier visits are up 6.2 percent for the season and 3.8 percent for January and February for 21 ski resorts across the state, according to Colorado Ski Country USA. The numbers are looking even...

Tom Ribe leans into the steering wheel of his green pickup, its dashboard a mosaic of souvenir pins from public lands. Just past the Valles Caldera National Preserve sign, in New Mexico’s Jemez...

“The Havasupai Tribe opposes the large development…” “The Hopi Tribe, other tribes, the Park and other groups are opposed to any development in the area…” “We are… greatly concerned about the...

DENVER – Colorado lawmakers are considering whether to join several other states that oppose a boycott seeking to punish Israel for its treatment of Palestinians. The bill before the state Senate...

During Justice Antonin Scalia’s tenure on the Supreme Court, a conservative California-based legal foundation had six straight victories on property rights and Clean Water Act cases. The decisions...

Lincoln County, Wyoming, has no plans to restore a public access route it cut in 2014 to a 32,000-acre wilderness study area that’s the site of a decades-long environmental battle, the commission...