Leadville Colorado

Northrop Grumman plans to hire 250 people by the end of 2022 for its Colorado Springs operations specializing in missile defense and ballistic missiles, a top company official said Monday.The Virginia-based defense giant expanded this month into nearly 100,000 square...

A right-wing group whose 2018 annual conference in Colorado Springs was canceled days after a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., has failed to show that a statement from the mayor caused the cancellation.The federal appeals court based in Denver...

The University of Colorado and the U.S. Space Force on Friday began a partnership that officials say will help the U.S. maintain its predominance in aerospace technology, research, development and security.At the university’s Colorado Springs campus, president Todd...

OKEMAH, Okla. — Chip Baker surveyed a vast field on the outskirts of an old hay farm an hour east of Oklahoma City, his ponytail waving in the thick, humid air, his voice growing excited. “This is probably the largest collection of Squirt in the world!” he boasted,...

Elwood Buster II's workspace for over 40 years at Speedometer and Alternator Service Co. could be a goldmine or a heap of junk. It depends on your point of view.Jumbled car manuals are heaped on shelves. Countertops are strewn with screwdrivers and wrenches and...

On the drive into her new city, Jo Beckwith remembers seeing the field out of the car window. Big and open and green. A dreamy place for an adventurous 10-year-old girl with a dream of riding a horse freely for miles while her hair blew in the wind.Three years later,...

One thing U.S. Sen. Michael Bennett can’t be accused of as he gears up for another reelection bid after 12 years in that office, and that’s leadership. Bennet spent most of his career blindly following inept leaders, like President Obama and the 2009 troop surge in...

FIREBAUGH, Calif. (AP) — As temperatures recently reached triple digits, farmer Joe Del Bosque inspected the almonds in his parched orchard in California’s agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley, where a deepening drought threatens one of the state’s most profitable...

Before she went to jail and before she overdosed, Brittany Medlin dabbled in getting clean.She'd make it three days, maybe five. She and her sister, also then struggling with addiction, had been subjects of an "Intervention"-style TV show. The broadcast had sent them...