The recommendation for denial was based on numerous factors, according to the staff report, including concerns and noncompliance issues related to the developer’s proposed housing density and plans ...

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But the increasingly dire projections, this winter’s historically bad snowpack and the growing gap between supply and demand haven’t yet pushed the seven states that share the Colorado River to come ...

Local efforts to recenter the philosophies of French-German humanist Albert Schweitzer as morally and culturally imperative in modern Aspen have been recognized in a French book written by authors ...

Local efforts to recenter the philosophies of French-German humanist Albert Schweitzer as morally and culturally imperative in modern Aspen have been recognized in a French book written by authors ...

As an Aspen Journalism donor, thank you for making this reporting possible! Nearly two hours east of Grand Junction on a remote dirt road on the Grand Mesa is a nondescript, shallow, ...

MACK — For five years, Zay Lopez tended vegetables, hayfields and cornfields, chickens, and a small flock of sheep here on the western edge of Colorado’s Grand Valley — farming made possible by water ...

As an Aspen Journalism donor, thank you for making this reporting possible! DURANGO — Over two days of hearings, Colorado water managers laid out their arguments related to one of the most powerful ...

Today’s hand-wringing over the lost soul or vanquished spirit of Aspen is nothing new. Such laments have echoed throughout every epoch in Aspen’s storied past. This doesn’t diminish the shared sense ...

As an Aspen Journalism donor, thank you for making this reporting possible! Time is ticking for states that share the shrinking Colorado River to negotiate a new set of governing rules. One major ...

As an Aspen Journalism donor, thank you for making this reporting possible! “Aspen was the perfect setting for music, art, education — all the things that make life worth living.” – Elizabeth Paepcke, ...

As of March 2, snowpack in the Roaring Fork basin is at 8.7 inches of snow water equivalent (SWE) or 65% of normal. Last year, snowpack held 11.9 inches of snow water equivalent in the Roaring Fork ...