Last summer, Rebecca Vance talked with her family about a dream she’d had: She wanted to live in a land disconnected from the world, which she viewed as chaotic and dangerous. She told her stepsister, Trevala Jara, that she could grow and gather her own food in a remote place, that she and her teenage…
Three highly decomposed bodies of campers were found on Sunday in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, and they might have been there since last year, law enforcement officials said. A hiker near the Gold Creek Campground in the Gunnison National Forest in western Colorado discovered a remote campsite outside of the campground with a severely…
Tina Peters, a Trump loyalist who was barred from overseeing elections in a Colorado county after her indictment on charges related to tampering with voting equipment, was sentenced on Monday to home detention after she was convicted in a separate obstruction case. Ms. Peters, the former clerk in Mesa County, was given four months of…
The two other skiers, who extricated themselves and were in telephone contact with the authorities, had uncovered the buried skier and had started CPR. They still needed to be rescued from the avalanche area on the west-facing slope that drains into the Maroon Creek Valley, the sheriff’s office said. Responders from Mountain Rescue Aspen and…
“Since Covid, the face of libraries have changed,” Marie Hotta, the chair of the Englewood Public Library board, said. “Libraries are not just a place to check out books and do research anymore.” The library, which is next to a light rail stop, has confronted numerous safety issues over the years, she said, placing staff…
The man identified by authorities as the suspect in the nightclub shooting in Colorado Springs Saturday night appears to have been arrested last year, accused of engaging in a lengthy standoff with the police after threatening to hurt his mother with a homemade bomb. A man with the same name and age as the club…
Colorado has been the scene of several of the United States’ most notorious mass shootings, including those at Columbine High School in 1999 and a movie theater in Aurora in 2012. Colorado Springs, in particular, has been forced to mourn several times before. Last year, a gunman killed six people at a birthday party on…