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July 22, 2024: Corn Harvest

Colorado onion harvesting races against freezing weather


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A worker walks through an onion field to remove large rocks before a large mechanical harvester runs over to harvest yellow onions from a field near Olathe Colo., October 20, 2023

The Valley: In Grand Junction, oil train route would retrace Colorado railroad history

Uinta Basin Railway could send 10 trains per day through remote Ruby Canyon, Palisade orchard country

The Colorado River flows through Grand Junction Colo., on the Western Slope.

Colorado's Largest Body of Water, Blue Mesa, rebounds from historic drought

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Why Crystal Dam in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison is releasing billions of gallons of water


A plan to pay farmers to use less of the Colorado River comes up dry

Spring is shearing season on the Western Slope

Colorado’s most unlikely destination for bluegrass and humor is back in business (and don’t forget your potluck dish)

racing the frost to harvest onions

Alone in a New World With Vast Open Space, and Sheep


Love, art and inclusion


Series of brute-force competitions paying homage to hard-rock miners of the Colorado high country wraps with spikes in a timber in Ouray

A new book, "The Fourth Man," written by Robert Baer, a former CIA officer, revives the hypothesis of a high-ranking Moscow spy in the United States.

'It's impossible to spot these mass shooters in advance'


Psychiatrist of Aurora theater shooter speaks out for the first time:

Olathe Sweet Sweet Corn Harvest


As 28.8 million ears of Olathe Sweet head to stores across the U.S., grower John Harold is hearing from sweet corn buyers elsewhere in the West where drought has reduced the local crop

Wearing out tires

Don Coram runs to unseat Lauren Boebert

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Barrels burn all night at Western Slope orchards as farmers try to save crop from spring freeze





Barrels burn all night at Western Slope orchards as farmers try to save crop from spring freeze





As Colorado’s coal industry takes its last gasp, the West End of Montrose County, which lost its coal plant and mine years ago, offers a glimpse of the future.


As Colorado’s coal industry takes its last gasp, the West End of Montrose County, which lost its coal plant and mine years ago, offers a glimpse of the future.


Deep inside the Gunnison Tunnel


The 120-year-old, 5.8-mile tunnel was the largest irrigation tunnel in the country when it opened in 1909. It was also the first major transmountain diversion in the U.S., becoming a model for moving Western water beneath mountains, connecting wet basins with dry deserts.


Today, the Gunnison Tunnel can move more than 500,000 acre-feet of water a year, more than the entire Eastern Slope draws from the Upper Colorado River Basin.


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Colorado’s coal country searches for “the next thing” to keep communities afloat

in the fiddle of nowhere


in the fiddle of nowhere


Way out in the middle of sweet-corn country, at the intersection of two roads on the way to someplace else, is a destination that regularly revives a lost era of American music.


A former mining camp is converting into a boutique getaway, sparking hope in Montrose County’s West End




The sun’s first rays are spilling over Jumbo Mountain when the team clambers aboard the sprawling corn harvester. 


HOPE BEHIND BARS AT CRAGGY CORRECTIONAL CENTER


The Hunter children wanted to tell their dad everything Saturday morning.....

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