A 54-year-old hiker’s fatal fall into an abandoned mine shaft near Ouray last month highlights a broader danger left behind ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Colorado activist group this week filed a lawsuit challenging a state law that allows oil and gas companies to drill a property owner’s minerals without consent of the owner. The ...

A recent tragedy in Colorado wasn't an anomaly. From drowning in quarries to stumbling into open pits, hundreds have died in ...

Part 2: The search to identify underground resources is often done from the sky. Here’s how that scientific magic happens Helicopters sporting long appendages are flying over some rural areas of the ...

DENVER — An independent energy research group has determined that oil and gas companies would still be able to access more than half of the minerals underground in northeastern Colorado if Proposition ...

High Country News’ twice weekly email newsletter includes our latest on-the-ground reporting and investigations from across the West. In Custer County’s Wet Mountain Valley, Temple investigates old ...

As Colorado Rising gathers signatures in support of its statewide ballot initiative that would place tough new restrictions on oil and gas drilling, the Colorado Association of Mineral and Royalty ...

Julie Hesse will give a presentation that goes along with her exhibit this month at Basalt Regional Library. What: “Rough and Cut: A Look at Colorado Minerals and Gemstones” When: March 25 at 5:15 p.m ...

Steep piles of old mine tailings form "The Dumps" on Aspen Mountain. These thigh-burning trails are tributes to the area's geology, which forever altered the town's fate after silver was discovered ...