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Like all Congressmen, Jeff Hurd has braggin’ rights about his voting record but evidently is too modest to brag. If you read Hurd’s newsletters, he is doing various things with people and ...

To make matters worse, Corvettes, Porsches and assorted sporty cars have been replaced by geezers on Harleys with an old-age crisis (or the new mid-life crisis). These cookie-cutter offenders with ...

When Wendell Berry, 92, died Mon., Aug. 31, the West lost a writer who focused on the importance of rural land. He studied under the writer Wallace Stegner at Stanford University and wrote nine novels ...

The eggs will hatch, and the larvae eat the still-living-but-paralyzed spider, sparing the vital organs to maintain the freshness of the food. It’s the kind of madness I want to shout at passing ...

In various public talks, Churchill often expressed disinterest in the idea of “speaking truth to power.” He would go on to say that, “Power knows everything you’re saying and frankly, power doesn’t ...

After a rough winter and summer, Colorado’s trees are ready to throw in the towel. According to Dan West, the state Forest Service lead entomologist, leaf peepers can expect this season to be a little ...

Two more yearling wolves from two different packs were killed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife on Mon., Sept. 7, for repeated livestock attacks.

Jell-O may have been an accidental invention, created alongside cough syrups and laxatives, presumably by adding sugar to make them go down.

“Freight” is the name of Lowell’s book that has the publishing world simmering right now, and Lowell hangs his stunning story on a night truck dispatcher by the name of Curtis.

Josephine Baker, renowned entertainer, was also a World War II spy. She wrote intel in invisible ink on her sheet music, much like I do on this advice column.

In a normal year, water temperature is in the upper 70s, Goble said. If the region’s water temperature is warmer than usual, and stays that way for several months, scientists call it an El Niño. In a ...