Interstate 70’s next big traffic buster

With one major highway project already under way on Interstate 70, Colorado Department of Transportation officials are now working on their next move to maximize the capacity of one of the state’s more congested highway corridors. The new peak-perio …

DENVER, CO - MAY 19: Runners take off as the Colfax half marathon gets under way in City Park in Denver, CO on May 19th, 2013. The Colfax Marathon, the Half Marathon and the Urban Ten- Miler were held in City Park in Denver, CO on May 19th, 2013. The popular running events, sponsored by Kaiser Permanente, were sold out and thousands of runners took part in all three races. Temperatures were cool with cloudy skies making for record setting times on both the Marathon and the half marathon by the winners. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

Abraham Rutto wins Colfax Marathon in Denver with record-setting time

Last year Trevor Barron broke the U.S. record for race walking 20 kilometers and was the lone American to compete in that event at the London Olympics. On Sunday he gave running a try. On a cool morning with near perfect running conditions that produ …

Joe Gandelman: Second-term curse crushes on Obama

You might say that May 10, 2013 was when the “second term curse” officially struck President Barack Obama — and that May 13 was when it flattened him. Obama’s administration has been hit with a triple whammy blast from a massive political stun gun. …

INEWS101 - Flowers wrap a stop sign where Mayra Cervantes, 18, and Cesar Ramirez-Ibanez, 21, were randomly shot and killed as they hung a yard sale sign on July 6, 2008 in Colorado Springs. Their deaths would add to the toll in Colorado’s deadliest neighborhood during the 12-year span been the mass shooting tragedies at Columbine and Aurora. Census Tract 54.00, a southeastern Colorado Springs enclave of 1960s tract houses, apartment complexes and four public schools, recorded 24 gun deaths during the period. (Joe Mahoney/I-News Network at Rocky Mountain PBS)

Colorado’s deadliest neighborhood

A Colorado Springs neighborhood of 1960s tract homes, apartments and schools — where postcard-perfect views of Pikes Peak frame the skyline – led the state in gun deaths over the 12 years between the mass shooting tragedies at Columbine High and the …

Gov. Hickenlooper signs over $5M for Eisenhower Tunnel

A cluster of people gathered Saturday morning outside the west entrance of the Eisenhower Johnson Memorial Tunnel along Interstate 70 to watch Gov. John Hickenlooper sign a bill that will appropriate $5 million for the installation of a fire suppress …

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Royal Gorge Rafting company guide Graeme Singleton leading a trip down the Royal Gorge. Sports and outdoor editor Sebastian Foltz paddling(upper right)

Royal Gorge: not for the faint of heart

There’s something special about rafting or paddling a new section of river. You can read about it beforehand and imagine how it will run. You can hear stories from other people, but nothing beats that moment when you’re approaching the rapids. First …

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Volunteers gathered for free food and music at the Riverwalk center after the town cleanup in Breckenridge yesterday afternoon.

Spring cleaning in towns throughout Summit County

All the familiar sights of Summit County in the springtime were present on Saturday. Cyclists navigated recpaths, tourists sauntered down sidewalks and cars zipped back and forth on the highway. But yesterday morning, another site was hard to miss. …

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Senator Udall's proposal to make Brown's Canyon a National monument, could mean a positive boost for the local rafting industry, say some area rafting companies.

Udall seeks feedback on proposed national monument

GOLDEN, Colo. — U.S. Sen. Mark Udall is asking for the public’s help in crafting legislation to create a national monument that would include 22,000 acres on both sides of the Arkansas River between Salida and Buena Vista in south-central Colorado — …

Think ‘waffle’ to square up a water-wise veggie garden

With the warming of daytime temps and the soil, we get closer each day to planting those warm-season vegetables most gardeners love — peas, carrots, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, squash, beans and more. Yet the drought still looms. This year, in partic …