Feeds
Intrawest ULC has agreed to sell its Copper Mountain ski resort in Colorado to Powdr Corp.
Airborne nitrogen pollution from vehicle exhaust and farm fertilizer is turning algae in the alpine lakes of Rocky Mountain National Park into junk food for fish, a study says.
LITTLE STUKELEYS, England - It lacks the windswept beauty of Stonehenge or the Tower of London's regal history but that hasn’t stopped a 20-year-old bunker left obsolete by the fall of the Berlin Wall from joining those two landmarks on Britain's fabled list of historic gems.
The football rivalry between the University of Colorado and Colorado State University has been extended for a decade and will return to Denver starting next year.
Prairie Mountain Publishing Co., which publishes the Daily Camera and Colorado Daily newspapers in Boulder, is now fully owned by Denver-based MediaNews Group Inc.
Former mountain biking world champion Melissa "Missy" Giove was ordered held on $250,000 bail Thursday after federal authorities said they seized more than 200 pounds of marijuana from a truck she was driving in upstate New York.
The cultural and natural resources of New Mexico's Mount Taylor will now be protected by the state, ending a yearlong battle between American Indians and landowners all concerned about preserving their rights to use the mountain without interference.
These days, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid prefers nothing so much as a one-word description for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository long planned for his state: dead.
Rangers hauled an injured man to safety late Tuesday after he fell while mountaineering in Rocky Mountain National Park and spent 24 hours lying at the base of a glacier before being found.
It’s apparently Bankruptcy of Ideas Week at your local cineplex: Grown-ups get the grisly remake of “The Last House on the Left” and that stew of Sundance clichés “Sunshine Cleaning,” while the kids can see Disney’s retread of 1975’s “Escape to Witch Mountain,” now appropriately retitled “Race to Witch Mountain,” since this new version piles on one car chase after another.
When director Andy Fickman first approached Dwayne Johnson about starring in a re-imagination of "Escape to Witch Mountain," the wrestler-turned-actor wasn't sure where he'd fit in.
An Alpine rescue in the Swiss Alps played out over the blogging Web site Twitter ended in tragedy after a snowboarder was found dead, British media and Swiss authorities said Tuesday.
On the day his newspaper published its final edition, Rocky Mountain News Editor John Temple advised a gathering of Colorado journalists to focus on local news and suggested creating online content that niche audiences might pay for.
The family of a renowned British climber killed in an accident in the French Alps said Sunday they were devastated by the deaths of their son and his mountaineering companion.
He’s gained attention all over the world as the hiker who gobbled bugs in a gutsy move to survive five days with a broken ankle on a little-traveled mountain trail. But Derek Mamoyac said eating little arthropods was just a matter of survival instincts kicking in.
When it’s man versus mountain, it’s usually unwise to bet against the mountain. But Derek Mamoyac beat the odds, surviving five days on Washington’s Mount Adams with a broken ankle by employing entomophagy — the eating of insects.
The Bush administration plans to make it easier for mountain bikers to gain access to national parks and other public lands before the president — an avid cyclist himself — leaves office.
No one knows what the Earth will be like in a million years. But a proposed nuclear waste dump in Nevada must be designed to ensure that people living near it then are exposed to no more than 100 millirems of radiation annually — equivalent to about a half-dozen X-rays.
Starting in the 1930s, a small, experimental college on the dense wood slopes of North Carolina's western mountains left an outsized mark on American art and culture. Black Mountain College's model of holistic learning and communal work was ahead of its time — it helped train a generation of artists and artisans, from poets to painters.
Three hikers have made a mountain out of an old Welsh hill.
Julien Absalon of France has won his second straight Olympic gold medal in men's mountain biking, easily holding off countryman Jean-Christophe Peraud for the title.
Federal regulators have rejected a petition by the state of Nevada against the government's license application for a nuclear waste dump 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Swiss police say an American man and woman have been found dead on a mountain in southern Switzerland.
Police say two competitors died of hypothermia and lack of oxygen during an endurance race up Germany's highest mountain. Six other people were hospitalized.
Marijuana Moves Into the Open in a Ski TownHigh-altitude partying is a deeply carved tradition in ski country, where alcohol in the open and illicit drugs in the shadows have been intertwined for years.
Mountain rescues double in a year Members of a mountain rescue team say the number of call-outs they will handle this year will almost double. Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue members, who cover part of Snowdonia, have attended 114 incidents so far in 2009.
I rarely have intro for my pieces but I wrote this one back in 2003 about a mountain tribe indigenous to the Cordillera mountain range of North Luzon in the Philippines.
There are lots of things we dream of doing but feel within ourselves that we could never do them, perhaps because of naked fear, lack of motivation or a lack of confidence.
Twitter, as screamed from a mountaintop by a South African blokeIf you're one of those terribly concerned people who worries that Twitter has replaced more traditional forms of communication such as face-to-face conversation, letter writing, or standing on top of a mountain shouting, here's evidence that it's actually highly compatible with t …
Please continue to "walk" with me through a Pennsylvania mountain forest and alongside several of its streams. A. Mac
Good News Wednesday: Eleven-Year-Old To Scale 14 Colorado Mountains of 14,000 feet or greater in 14 days to raise money for best friend's medical billsMatt Moniz, the 11-year-old Boulderite who became the youngest person ever to summit Argentina's 22,841-foot Cerro Aconcagua last December, has set his sights on a daunting new project.
Mountain Meadows group wants more tests on skull - Salt Lake TribuneIdaho scientist isn't certain that a skull found in the Mountain Meadows area in Utah is one of the victims of the infamous massacre by Mormons of settlers traveling to California in the 1800s.
Brit girl's mountain terrorA 14-year-old British girl spent a night lost on a Swiss mountain after she became separated from her parents on a walking holiday.
Huge undersea mountain found off IndonesiaA massive underwater mountain discovered off the Indonesian island of Sumatra could be a volcano with potentially catastrophic power, a scientist said Friday.
Young Mountain Lion Found In Home's Window Well Firestone police got a unique call Wednesday; a mountain lion had fallen into a window well"
California Wilderness Coalition Applauds U.S. House Passage of California Wild Places and Scenic Rivers Protection Bill Appalachia's AgonyThe longstanding disgrace of mountaintop mining is now squarely in President Obama's hands. More Articles
Yucca missing from plan to remake nuclear waste policyNevada senators seeking to redirect the nation away from Yucca Mountain introduced a bill Thursday that would create a nine-member expert panel to overhaul nuclear waste policy.
Man walks to D.C. in support of Ten Commandments displaysScott Teague, former Marine from Mountain City, TN is walking to Washington! He is walking over 440 miles to D.C. to make a point! Scott Teague is going to ask Congress to pass a law allowing the Ten Commandments to be placed in Schools and in Court houses!
Avalanche buries senior in mountain hut for two daysRescue workers have freed an 84-year-old shepherd woman after she spent two days buried under an avalanche slide in her cabin on a mountainside in the Bavarian Alps, daily Bild reported on Wednesday.
The Tucson Mountains UFO flap continues, new sightings Around two weeks ago All News Web reported on a number of witnesses who saw a rather impressive UFO in the Tucson Mountains area of Arizona.
Scientists discover Alps-scale mountain range under Antarctic iceResearchers flew aircraft 75,000 miles over six weeks braving average temperatures of -30 Celsius mapping the ancient Gamburtsev range.
Thought to be extinct Philippines quail spotted - on way to cooking pot A rare Philippines quail that was feared to have become extinct has been photographed alive for the first time -- as it was headed for the cooking pot, according to ornithologists.
Nuclear industry calls for fallback plan for Yucca MountainThe government affairs arm of the nuclear industry on Monday called for President Barack Obama to convene a blue ribbon nuclear waste commission, a move that could be a first step toward forming alternatives to burying radioactive power plant fuel at Yucca Mountain.
Man hangs half naked from Vail chairliftIn my opinion, it's a huge lack of respect to expose the man this way!
Year of Gorillas Gets Good News from CongoThe conflict in Congo has affected two creatures very close to one another, humans and gorillas. Barely 700 Mountain Gorillas remain in the wild.
Antigua And Barbuda to Rename Peak 'Mount Obama'Barack Obama is about to get his own mountain.
Log In | Register
