Southwest Life

Early Colorado brewers celebrated the centennial with a commemorative bock beer

Denver Brewing Company markets its ‘peculiar and superior beverage’ to local saloons

April 13, 2026

Southwest Life

Help the San Juans while helping yourself

SJMA volunteers help keep the trails corridor wide enough for all trail users. I also don’t need to sell you…

April 13, 2026

Southwest Life

Record low Colorado mountain snow won’t bode well for water in the drought-stricken U.S. West

Snow surveyors, hydrologist, Maureen Gutsch, left, and Clinton Whitten weigh a snow sample Monday, March 30, 2026, in Kremmling, Colo.…

April 10, 2026

Southwest Life

U.S. Forest Service cabins and Southwest staycations

The house that forester Aldo Leopold built for his new bride Estella Luna Otero Bergere in 1912 is now part…

April 10, 2026

Southwest Life

Colorado farmers battled biblical grasshopper plagues in 1876

150 years ago this week, spring planting season began with warnings about the return of Rocky Mountain locusts

April 3, 2026

Southwest Life

The Razorback Suckers: How Grand Junction’s baseball team got its name

Grand Junction's new baseball team is the Razorback Suckers. (Courtesy of the Pecos League) Long before the Grand Junction Razorback…

April 3, 2026

Southwest Life

Trump plans to move Forest Service headquarters to Utah and shutter research sites

A person walks along a dirt road in Deschutes National Forest on May 1, 2025, near Bend, Ore. (Jenny Kane/Associated…

April 2, 2026

Regional News

Health care costs in Colorado will grow under federal policy, patient advocates say

Sen. Hickenlooper says measure to require price transparency will help balance market

March 30, 2026

Regional News

As the BLM in Moab opens hundreds of miles of trails to e-bikes, Colorado land managers also weigh expansion

BLM’s Colorado River Valley Field Office is considering opening more than 220 miles of trails to e-bikes in Eagle, Garfield…

March 30, 2026

Columnists

Congress rejects land protections

Over the past year, Congress has increasingly turned to a previously obscure legislative tool called the Congressional Review Act in…

March 21, 2026

Southwest Life

Support Local Youth at the La Plata County 4-H Community Garage Sale

Spring has arrived, and for many of us that means it’s time to clean out closets, garages and storage spaces.…

March 21, 2026

Southwest Life

Apache women seek court intervention as federal land is turned over for copper mining

Mine shafts 10, left, and 9 tower over the Resolution Copper Mining Co. facility June 9, 2023, in Miami, Ariz.…

March 20, 2026

Southwest Life

Woman who self-published book about coping with grief after husband’s death convicted in his killing

Defendant Kouri Richins, accused of poisoning her husband in March 2022, listens to closing arguments in the Third District Court…

March 20, 2026

Southwest Life

In the West, snow drought is pushing cross-country ski areas closer to a breaking point

The Eldora Mountain Ski Resort Nordic Center is usually covered with more snow this time of year. Feb. 13, 2026.…

March 15, 2026

Southwest Life

Once a beacon of cheap homes, Nevada has become a symbol of America’s struggle with high costs

Homes sites are seen under construction Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, in Las Vegas.cca Torres Suazo expects to continue sharing an…

March 14, 2026

Southwest Life

U.S. Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell’s successes

Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, seen here in his eagle feather headdress, stands next to Southern Ute tribal member Kenny Frost…

March 8, 2026

Southwest Life

How Cepheid variable stars are used to measure space

Occasionally, the calendar aligns so that I get to complain about daylight saving time in this column on the same…

March 7, 2026

Southwest Life

SJMA Education and Stewardship program strengthen connections in the Northern San Juans

A new education program of San Juan Mountains Association in action at Top of the Pine near Ridgway.cca This was…

March 7, 2026

Southwest Life

A railroad’s arrival in Pueblo 150 years ago had far-reaching consequences for Colorado and the West

route to the Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway broke a monopoly that had outraged Southern Colorado

March 6, 2026

Southwest Life

A Utah mom who wrote kids’ book on grief after husband died killed him for money, prosecutors say

Kouri Richins, a Utah mother accused of fatally poisoning her husband, looks on during her murder trial at the Summit…

February 27, 2026

Thinking Green

Coal’s resurgence lands in the Four Corners

Two notable events occurred last week in jarring juxtaposition. The seven Colorado River basin states failed to reach agreement on…

February 20, 2026

AP New Mexico

Indian Health Service to phase out use of dental fillings containing mercury by 2027

industry has largely abandoned them in favor of plastic resin alternatives

February 20, 2026

Southwest Life

Judge orders takeover of health care operations in Arizona prisons after years of poor care

A sign points in the direction of the Arizona State Prison in Florence, Ariz., March 19, 2025. (Darryl Webb/Associated Press)cca…

February 20, 2026

Stewards of the Land

Lessons that build a relationship with the land

San Juan Mountains Association summer campers take part in an activity at the Durango Nature Center.cca That tiny moment is…

February 14, 2026