Aspen News

A Colorado Springs climber fell to his death on Capitol Peak, according to the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office.

Young Bill Bussey often dreamed of soaring. In early adulthood, the Longview native was on a trip to Aspen, Colo., when he saw two magnificent hot-air balloons tethered on the ground, taking people up and down.

ASPEN, Colorado - A proposal to raise bus fares and reduce service divided the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority's board of directors Thursday.

For some two weeks the Powder Days ice-shaving stand has served up summer-time treats for the parched.

The Aspen/Pitkin County Housing Authority is poised to take a hard line with owners of employee housing who refuse to pay homeowner dues.

The owners of the Wienerstube building are looking to the Colorado Court of Appeals to overturn a local judge's ruling that effectively tossed out their lawsuit against the city of Aspen over the denial of their development proposal.

A woman on a commercial raft trip who ended up in the Roaring Fork River was helped out of the area Tuesday evening, as was a fisherman who tried to help her.

Higher bus fares might be another way that the recession hits Roaring Fork Valley residents in the pocketbook this year.

ASPEN, Colorado - Everyone acquainted with environmentalism is all too familiar with the "things you can do to save the world" lists.

Cemetery historian Ron Sladek, middle, his daughter Maya, left, and city of Aspen preservation planner Sara Adams survey the condition of Walter and Elizabeth Paepcke's gravesite last week at Aspen Grove Cemetery.

Silversmith Bates Hayes chats with Junee Kirk at the Aspen Saturday Market. Hayes shares a booth with Andrew Kole as part of her alliance with Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club .

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Carbondale police and the District Attorney's Office have an apparent difference of opinion over whether there is enough evidence for an arrest in the theft of 30 solar panels from the recreation center.

ASPEN, Colorado - Republicans better hope the Democrats screw up sometime soon. Without the party in power self-destructing, Republicans will likely face a tough time in the next two elections, according to two political experts speaking Wednesday at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

Aspenites were shut out of their Smuggler Mountain stomping grounds Thursday, but treated to the spectacle of huge trees dangling from a cable, pulled aloft by a helicopter as part of an experimental effort to slow the spread of the mountain pine beetle.

ASPEN, Colorado - The energy-climate bill passed last week in the House will face an even tougher battle in the Senate, U.S. Sen.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - The Cattle Creek Colorado project, a large residential and commercial development proposed between Glenwood Springs and Carbondale, has been pulled off the table for now, according to a member of Garfield County's planning staff.

The documentary "Food, Inc." will be screened Tuesday at Paepcke Auditorium as part of the Aspen Ideas Festival.

Plans for the second phase of Aspen's largest and most controversial housing development are inching along, and elected officials are considering a delayed schedule that includes asking for a multimillion-dollar bond next year and an increased budget for initial design work.

Two stranded hikers and four members of Mountain Rescue Aspen spent a cold Sunday night on Shadow Mountain before climbing safely down early Monday morning.