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By Melanie Wong VAIL — Drivers traveling on the Interstate 70 corridor this winter may notice a number of changes on the roads this season. Some of the changes are subtle, but may make for a faster, safer trip — that’s what the Colorado Department of Transportation hopes. CDOT and a number of other state […]

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By Edward Stoner EAGLE COUNTY — People who knew Steve Walker found it almost impossible to coax him off of the ranch that he worked and loved at the top of East Lake Creek. But once he came down the creek and connected with friends, he would pick right up where they had left off […]

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By Edward Stoner VAIL — Vail’s Mike Brown was inducted into the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame Friday night at the induction ceremony in Broomfield. The Class of 2014 included Brown along with athletes Jeremy Bloom, John “C.J.” Mueller, Johnny Spillane and pioneer Kingsbury “Pitch” Pitcher. Brown succeeded at the top level

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By RICK CARROLL A stretch starting Thursday and ending Friday kept the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office plenty busy with two black bear fatalities and a cyclist colliding with a bruin. It started at roughly 7 p.m. Thursday in Redstone. There, the dwellers of a home had been pestered so much by a bear that they […]

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By Randy Wyrick EAGLE COUNTY — Today, we pose the following question to the candidates for the Eagle County Board of Commissioners: Is it time to roll back any regulations and “public good” attachments to development proposals that might be unreasonable in harder economic times? Jeanne McQueeney, Democrat, District 3 As I’ve walked neig

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By Edward Stoner VAIL — Vail’s Lindsey Vonn turns 30 today. The four-time World Cup overall champ, 59-time World Cup winner and Olympic gold medalist was born Oct. 18, 1984. After suffering a devastating knee injury in 2013 and re-injuring it last year, Vonn has returned to snow this fall and is aiming to return […]

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By Chris Freud GYPSUM – The Eagle Valley Devils might, just might ride Buck Ortiz’s pick-six into the playoffs. Conventional thinking didn’t give Eagle Valley much of a chance against the No. 6-ranked Delta Panthers. The thing is, though, it was a football game, not a convention, and Eagle Valley won 18-7. Eagle Valley and [&helli

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By Chris Freud EDWARDS — There was a band playing before a Battle Mountain football game. Not the school marching band, but a band of students (Jasper Stone, Jack Wickum, Michael Evans and Andrew Herrera) playing the Black Eyed Peas’ “Let’s get it Started,” before the Huskies hosted Basalt on Friday night for Homecoming. That̵

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By John LaConte ARAPAHOE BASIN — It’s 3 a.m., and a dozen people are gathered in the parking lot and beneath the chairlift in anticipation of the 2014-15 ski season. Legendary snowboarder Nate “Nate Dogggg” Nadler has been camped out here since Wednesday. He predicted, correctly, that A-Basin would be the first ski area in […]

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By Chris Freud DELTA — Hey Ryan McKay, you need a new banner in the gym. Huskies cross-country made some new work for the Battle Mountain athletic director on Friday afternoon, capturing two league titles at the Region 6 Meet in Delta. The ladies are the queens of the Slope, making it back-to-back-to-back-to-back regional and […]

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