On Earth Day 2014, a group of farmers, ranchers and Native Americans who live along the proposed Keystone XL pipeline route marched and rode horseback through Washington, D.C., wearing cowboy hats and...

DENVER – The Gold King Mine spill in August will likely have little fiscal impact on La Plata County, according to a Colorado economic outlook report presented Monday. The annual study, con...

DENVER – State oil and gas regulators have stripped operational time limits from proposed oil and gas rules, as they prepare a revised draft for consideration. After three days of hearings ...

La Plata County commissioners on Monday unanimously adopted the 2016 county budget of $104.7 million in expected expenditures, up almost 33 percent from the $78.8 million in 2015. This figu...

When Bill Miller first met with officials from the Bureau of Land Management to talk about his company’s vision of building a 1,000-turbine wind farm on a checkerboard expanse of public and private la...

The Thompson Divide, southwest of Carbondale, Colorado, is a nearly quarter-million-acre swath of roadless and rugged topography, with vast stretches of aspen groves and dark timber forests. Hikers an...

A conservation advocacy group recently determined it would cost about $21 billion to clean up the approximately 100,000 abandoned mines across 13 Western states, but what the study truly aims to highl...