Leadville Colorado

A Colorado Springs startup that began by helping the local police find illegal marijuana grows is now using drones and artificial intelligence to map seagrass meadows in Florida to measure climate change.Computer Access Technologies (CAT), founded by and is headed by...

Life is different above tree line.The wind blows harder. The sun shines brighter. And everything moves slower.There is, after all, a reason why trees stop growing at about 12,000 feet. Keep that in mind if you find yourself hiking through Missouri Gulch in the Sawatch...

Joe Biden and nearly all of Colorado’s Democratic congressional delegation have gone into hiding since Kabul fell and the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan following America’s botched and disgraceful exit. In the “next few days”? @JoeBiden’s gotta finish his...

One-thousand, seventy-five feet. That’s the make or break level for Lake Mead, on the Arizona-Nevada border.Keep the water levels above that, and hydropower for Arizona, California and Nevada from the Hoover Dam stays stable.Drop below that, and the U.S. Bureau of...

August 16, 2021  A Q&A with Pacific Institute Senior Researcher Michael Cohen and Dr. Amanda Bielawski, Pacific Institute Director of Communications and OutreachToday, the US Secretary of the Interior declared a first-ever Shortage Condition for the Lower Colorado...

Vanessa Bennett Schulz stood at a wooden podium in the center of an Arapahoe County courtroom Tuesday, steps from the man who slaughtered her family and almost killed her, too, nearly four decades ago at their home in Aurora. In front of a courtroom filled with...

The Colorado Republican Party is — Donald Trump loyalists who want to move the party as far right as possible, and everyone else. Now the former group is hoping to create more ideal conditions for far-right candidates to be nominated for office, and its plan could...

Coloradans long have escaped smoggy Front Range cities by bolting to national parks and mountain wilderness — such as the Maroon Bells or the Great Sand Dunes — where, traditionally, the air and views were pristine. Now, a gray-brown haze impairs visibility at a dozen...

Federal officials declared the first-ever Colorado River water shortage on Monday, a sign of critically low water supplies across a system serving seven western states and Mexico.Lake Mead water level projections for January 2022 will prompt additional water cutbacks...