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With all but provisional ballots counted, county voters appear to have passed two new tax measures — one a mill levy increase to benefit human services, the other a sales-and-use tax to be used for open space purchases. The open-space issue, County Ballot Issue 1B, ...

If Eldora Mountain Resort’s expansion moves forward, it’ll be at the objections of local business owners and residents, who have congealed in the citizens’ group Middle Boulder Creek Coalition and been joined by the Indian Peaks Group of the Sierra Club, as well as ...

It’s an iconic scene: The final bell blares on the last day of class. Students send papers airbourne in jubilation. Alice Cooper’s raspy anthem...

Long-suffering environmental activists cheered last month when an organized investor revolt forced ExxonMobil to add three climate-conscious directors to its corporate board. Despite nearly a generation...

City of Boulder forges ahead with Xcel agreement Details of an agreement between the City of Boulder and Xcel Energy were made public on Aug....

Some Boulder County employers are airing concerns about Groupon and similar group discount programs, citing costs that they say can be debilitating to small businesses...

The consequences of Houston’s historic inundation, in deaths and dollars, are nowhere near fully tallied. Indeed, the economic costs — which will include everything from...

He removes his cap; fingers brush past his left ear and instinctively find the scar at the base of his skull. It’s much smaller now, about the size of a half-dollar coin, and much more manageable. There are other scars: two incisions along the base of his neck, and ...

“If I’m about to die, I just want to say ... I don’t know. If this is it, I don’t regret it. I did...

With winter arriving and crackdowns on protests across the country becoming more aggressive, the Occupy movement has reached a crossroads...

A cohort of nonprofit leaders, university professors and journalists from Tajikistan visited Boulder last week to discuss the role of the media in the...

As a species, humans buy into trending ideas regularly — sometimes for our benefit but equally often to our detriment; just think about diet...