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The Page One photo captures the dramatically lighted stone walls of Red Rocks amphitheatre, while below them thousands of black and white faces appear to be bobbing on a dark, undulating sea. But they were all listening raptly to Helen Jepson, not Madonna. And this was June 16, 1941, not 2009.
Lane Christenson has been dead for more than a decade, but he is causing problems for the federal government.
Frontier Airlines has asked a bankruptcy court to give it an additional four months to file its reorganization plan.
With Caribou Ranch opening its gates for the first time in years for our special report last week, music fans were reminded of the big names that came there: Elton John, John Lennon, Joe Walsh.
The case against Tim Masters was so close that the lead prosecutor thought he'd lost at the end of testimony and arguments, one of the man's former attorneys testified this morning.
This town's many makeovers - from a cattle center to a scenic retreat to an oil and gas boomtown - are becoming a familiar story in the Rocky Mountain West.
It's just a wide spot on Colorado 93 now, but 30 years ago the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant loomed just over the horizon.
We stashed one of our cars at the Cold Spring park-n-Ride on Union Boulevard and began the final day of our hike along the West Corridor light-rail line.
The Rocky Mountain News has obtained a copy of a letter believed to be signed by a 26-year-old gang member that says he fired the shots that killed Denver Broncos player Darrent Williams.
Aaron Thompson and Shely Lowe abused his daughter to death and harmed other children in their care, according to a 60-count indictment providing only a preview of what authorities say went on in a tormented household.
Were you to measure this street - Border Street, as it has been called here, though it appears on city maps by another name and in neighborhood memory by yet another - you would find it to be just under one-tenth of a mile, a short block by most standards, a hyphen in a neighborhood of sentences.
The lawyer who prosecuted former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling is now on the other side of the white-collar crime legal fence - defending former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio from civil fraud charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
A tribute CD honoring shooting victim Emily Keyes is making the rounds in the mountain communities of Bailey, Conifer and Evergreen.
Web sites glorifying Columbine High School killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold became a virtual meeting space for two teens a world apart who planned their own high school massacres, authorities said.
Fired University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill will return to the Boulder campus next week to begin teaching an unsanctioned course that's being organized by his student supporters.
The marmot was holding his own until the second coyote blindsided him. The coarse-furred, groundhog-like rodent emerged from his hibernation burrow last April onto a thick crust of snow that blanketed this former mining town several miles north of Crested Butte.
On a rainy afternoon Carmelo Anthony and newly acquired guard J.R. Smith make their way across an Albertson's parking lot back to their hotel room at the Doubletree in Durango on the first week of training camp at 2:30 p.m.
Eras end. Time goes by. Jim Carrey makes more movies. We understand all this. That doesn't mean we have to like it. It was hard not to notice how happy Patrick Roy looked announcing his retirement. In fact, he seemed a lot happier than anyone else in the room, except possibly his kids, and even they didn't seem all that excited about moving back to Canada.
Hunter S. Thompson's literary heroes may see his ashes explode 300 feet into the summer sky this weekend.
Denver police widow Anna VanderJagt and Lisl Auman, the woman she holds responsible for her husband's death, shared the same courtroom Monday for the first time in seven years.
The Rocky is celebrating its landmark birthday with historic pages and reports.
A five-part series that examines one tragic day on Mount Rainier.
A river of pink flooded Denver as more than 60,000 people ran and walked in the 16th annual race.
Medal of Honor recipients gathered in Denver for a convention. Read their stories.
12 Colorado authors were asked to write original stories of fiction set in Denver.
Notables from past Democratic Conventions offer advice to Obama and DNC organizers in this series.
Our special report investigates how Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico could determine the next president.
Thousands of sick nuclear workers have applied for government compensation. But most have never seen a dime.
Reporter James Meadow and photographer Darin McGregor document life at the park in the heart of the city of Denver.
One of the world's largest archives of coverage on the JonBenet Ramsey murder.
Full coverage of Frontier's bankruptcy filing.
A 4-day report on Colorado's natural gas bonanza.
The latest stories about Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams' slaying and the ensuing investigation.
Construction begins next year on the West Corridor, the first new light-rail line to be built as part of the FasTracks program.
The Rocky Mountain News followed Maj. Steve Beck as he takes on the most difficult duty of his career: casualty notification.
Re-live the Colorado Rockies' march to the 2007 World Series.