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Locals recall Pioneer Inn’s wild days as it turns 40
"People would just start shaking, and the room would go quiet,” a man known as “Cajun” Dave Harbour says of those long-ago Friday nights when Grande Rojo, a gigantic miner, would stride through Nederland’s historic bar, the Pioneer Inn. If you were a cheat, a thief, ...
Trump administration reauthorizes lethal cyanide device for predator control
Canyon Mansfield and his dog, Casey, set out from their home in suburban Pocatello, Idaho, one day in 2017. They walked up the hill...
The ones we leave behind
A father and his son pull into the parking lot at UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital in Longmont in mid-June.
They don’t have an appointment scheduled. In...
Think before you drink
A potentially carcinogenic form of the element chromium is in Boulder’s drinking water and there are no plans to remove it anytime soon...
Pregnant in prison
Listen to Pamela White's interview on KGNU about this story by clicking here...
Gaining traction
Yolanda Crist sits on the curb beside her two-door Hyundai as the sunset gilds nearby treetops. Between drags on a cigarette she says, “I...
A dam shame?
It’s hard for locals like Seth Cousin, who live on Gross Reservoir, to imagine what it will look like after the dam has been...
Re-indigenizing the story of Bears Ears
One man's mission to bring indigenous voices to the management of their ancestral land.
The perfect storm
Rail traffic has increased in Boulder County in recent years largely due to the transportation of flammable crude oil, primarily from the Niobrara shale formation in Wyoming and here in Colorado. This is an important turn of events because the tracks that run through...
The bad news about SB 181
Phillip Doe is a former environmental compliance officer and head of the Reclamation Law Administration for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. He currently serves...
Boulder prepares for e-scooter invasion with an emergency moratorium
There’s a new wave of micro-mobility e-transportation sweeping the nation, and it’s inevitably coming to Boulder.
For the time being, though, it’s been stalled by...