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Outdoor gear sales dropped in 2023, leaving mountain retailers struggling with high rents, high taxes and too-few workers

Overall sales of gear and apparel dropped 3% last year. Independent stores were hit much harder as core outdoor consumers slowed their spending

DATE: Mar 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Estes Park set to host Sundance directors at Stanley Hotel. Could it mean a larger role in movies?

Could $450 million upgrade, new film center lure country’s largest film festival to state?

DATE: Mar 15, 2024 | CATEGORY: Business

Do remote-controlled avalanche exploders really work?

CDOT and the Colorado Avalanche Information Center operate 54 remote-controlled avalanche systems

DATE: Mar 8, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Can two nominees for CPW commission who worked as animal advocates also represent hunters?

Jessica Beaulieu and Gary Skiba head to confirmation without key committee recommendations

DATE: Mar 7, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Opposition to national monument along Dolores River grows

Plan to create a 400,000-acre monument stirs concerns over crowds, mining and access

DATE: Mar 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Local News

Meet the new owners of Silverton Mountain

Andy Culp and Brock Strasbourger want to protect what they say should be a ‘true, pure ski experience’

DATE: Feb 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Bill to shield Colorado landowners from visitors’ lawsuits heads to governor’s desk

Senate Bill 58 requires landowners to erect signs warning visitors of hazards

DATE: Feb 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Ski resorts’ long history of immunity threatened by Colorado Supreme Court case

Case involves a teen who was paralyzed after a fall from a chairlift

DATE: Feb 18, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado short-term rental owners may protest plan to quadruple their taxes

A survey showed that a majority would reduce their rental nights if Senate Bill 33 passes

DATE: Feb 3, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado 14er Kit Carson Mountain readies for a new name

Federal board wonders if a suggestion for “Mount Crestone” may be confused with nearby Crestone Peak and Crestone Needle as the state naming group weighs a new name for the 14er

DATE: Jan 27, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Could a small sign ease landowners’ anxiety about letting people recreate on their property?

Lawmakers will try again to change law to better protect private property owners

DATE: Jan 21, 2024 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Colorado avalanche forecasters sound red alert as new snow piles deep for MLK weekend

Colorado Avalanche Information Center forecasters are sounding the alarm for backcountry travelers as feet of new snow blankets weak layers

DATE: Jan 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News