The U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass my bipartisan Post-Disaster Reforestation and Restoration Act, which I introduced alongside Rep. Chuck Edwards (NC-11). This bill would help communities ...

With the discovery of gold in Cripple Creek by Bob Womack in 1890, hoards of prospectors and miners flocked to the area. Soon, most of the mining claims were taken up and folks started heading west.

After the yellow leaves of aspens drop, the elk of the Kenosha Pass Herd make their way down from Park County’s high country, moving into their lower wintering range. In the spring as the weather ...

As the Fire Ban continues and the blue skies endlessly mark our winter days, it’s obvious we need to provide some much needed moisture to our more permanent garden plantings. At our elevation, the ...

Fest returns to the Montrose Rotary Amphitheater Friday, Aug. 7 and to the Montrose Water Sports Park Saturday, Aug. 8. This ...

Perhaps the greatest irony of America’s 250th birthday is the inadvertent role played by international tourists visiting for soccer’s World Cup who remind us that our country is unlike any other. Much ...

Antiestablishmentarianism. Ooh… that’s a fun word. Let’s say it again: antiestablishmentarianism. The rejection of or opposition to the social and political establishment. We’re deep in it now in this ...

To step back in time, a visit to South Park City Museum on Front Street in Fairplay is a must. South Park City is an outdoor museum, which is a restoration of a western mining town of the 1800s and ...

Last Saturday’s light drizzle just made the gardens that much more vibrant at the First Annual Bailey Garden Tour. Over a hundred area residents joined the Master Gardeners at the Bailey Demonstration ...

The good news? The Lime Gulch Fire south of Conifer was 5 percent contained as of 10 a.m. Friday, and “we expect that to go up significantly today,” said incident Commander Dan Dallas at a press ...

Editor’s Note: “Parked in the Past” runs in the last Flume of each month. There’s not much left of Howbert, Colo., except fading memories and a few photographs. The town and its two nearest ...

The Park County Board of Commissioners passed the revised 2026 Short-Term Rental Ordinance during their regularly scheduled meeting on June 9, 2026, by a vote of 2-0, with County Commissioner David ...