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Colorado's Highest Mountain TownColorado’s Top Whitewater Parks for Kayaks, Tubes and SUPs
Since the turn of the millennium, Colorado’s towns have been revolutionizing their waterfront areas with new whitewater parks. In doing so, it has never been easier to get out for a quick, fun float around the state whether tubing, kayaking or on a stand-up paddle...
Colorado Springs’ Anastasija Zolotic earns U.S. its first gold in women’s taekwondo
TOKYO — Colorado Springs' Anastasija Zolotic won the United States’ first gold medal in women’s taekwondo by beating Russian athlete Tatiana Minina 25-17 on Sunday to claim the featherweight division title.Zolotic moved to Colorado Springs with her family in 2019 to...
Colorado Springs veterans, families commemorate end of Korean War
The Korean War was brought to a truce on July 27, 1953, with the signing of an armistice agreement between the United States, the People’s Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea.For many, that was the start of the conflict fading into being known as America's...
New book spreads joy, education of world’s highest botanical gardens in Colorado
In the mid-1990s, during graduate studies at Cornell University, Sarah Chase Shaw spent her summers in Vail working at a garden center. She was selling daisies and the usual annuals and perennials.“That was really the early years of the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens,”...
EDITORIAL: Bennet and Hickenlooper should defend Colorado
Despite fanfare about her visit to Colorado last week, the decision to keep the Bureau of Land Management headquarters in Grand Junction does not begin and end with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. The BLM’s future rests in the hands of Sens. Michael Bennet and John...
Cyclist Cristhian Ravelo headed home for Colorado event after team win in Utah
Cristhian Ravelo, (center, pink sleeves) in a recent USA Crits race. Ravelo is a cyclist from EagleVail who competes in several different disciplines, and was tapped for the USA Crits series this year with his team CS Velo. Special to the Daily In 2020, after one...
Colorado Springs power plant may soon stop burning coal
The Martin Drake Power Plant is aiming to cease burning coal in September as part of a transition to cleaner energy within Colorado Springs Utilities. Utilities only has one coal burning unit left at Drake, a generator built in 1968 that produces 77 megawatts of power...
Appeals court finds man’s online threats to Colorado musician not protected by First Amendment
A man convicted after sending more than 1 million Facebook messages to a Denver musician isn't protected by the First Amendment's free speech provisions, and was instead making threats, the state Court of Appeals ruled Thursday, rejecting a constitutional challenge to...
Colorado attorney caught in underage sex sting among lawyers suspended from practice – The Denver Post
An attorney caught in an underage sex sting and a lawyer who fabricated a document to try to get out of trouble were among four attorneys who were suspended from practicing law in Colorado this month. Richard Howieson, 31, was suspended for 18 months after he...