For two decades the Cuchara ski area in southern Colorado sat dormant, its former owners having packed up and left overnight. Now it’s being reborn as a county-owned ski area with a mission of ...

More than 3.5 million abandoned oil and gas wells are littered across the United States and an estimated 14 million Americans ...

Cuchara Mountain Park's "ski bus" started running over the weekend (Dec. 14-15) for skiers interested in a ride up the slopes ...

Colorado Sens. John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet are original co-sponsors of the Senate bill, while Colorado Reps.

University of Colorado Council on Research and Creative Work, 2004-2005, PI: Joe Ryan Contributing to the Remediation of Abandoned Mines in the Lefthand Creek Watershed (Northwestern Boulder County, ...

Outside the small town of Pierce, Colorado, a group of old wells were ... “A lot of the oil fields in the United States have small towns in and amongst them,” Ostrom says.

A dog named Butterfly is alive and well after a brutal case of abuse. Staff at Foothills Animal Shelter say months ago the dog was found alone in a park suffering from apparent stab wounds and ...

Colorado is one step closer to welcoming qualified Good Samaritans to clean up the state's polluting hardrock mines. Here's why this work is important and how it would work.

It also grants new protections for liabilities that have complicated cleanup efforts in the past. There are an estimated ...