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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is closing its Disaster Recovery Center at Longmont's Twin Peaks Mall, 1250 S. Hover St., as of 3 p.m. Saturday.

And this year, when Boulder's multiplatinum-selling pianist and composer Peter Kater received a Grammy nomination, he said it felt different, too.

Jackie Long, of Boulder, hangs onto her hood as high winds blow along the Pearl Street Mall on Tuesday.

A several mile long stretch of U.S. 36 north of Boulder has been closed this afternoon because of high winds in the area, according to public safety officials.

University of Colorado police have arrested a CU student investigators believe touched himself after breaking into a female student's room and also stole underwear from other females in Smith Hall.

Boulder Beer Company , which invented Colorado's craft brewing industry in 1979, is planning to stop bottling Planet Porter, one of its three original beers.

"It's in Antarctica of course," Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., said here today at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

Audrey Evans rides the hill at Scott Carpenter Park with her son Wyatt, 16 months, on a warming Monday afternoon in Boulder.

When it comes to climate change, local officials have a message for Washington: Lead or get out of the way.

Jury selection was not completed Monday evening for the trial of George Osonau Tiba.

The Arctic air blasting the eastern United States is positively balmy compared to the record minus 93 degrees Celsius temperature measured in Antarctica in August 2010, according to research released on Monday.

An operator runs a bulldozer alongside U.S. 36 near the Davidson Mesa overlook as the initial work on CDOT's Managed Lanes project, such as grading, drainage improvements and the relocation of electric utilities, continues near Superior.

In the wake of the September floods that devastated many Boulder County towns, the City of Boulder and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art worked quickly to create the Flood Project: Rising Above & Rebuilding Boulder Through Art , a community-building public art project that would both commemorate the floods and promote the healing process.

In a ground-breaking move in November, voters in Boulder, Colo., approved an initiative to end their relationship with Xcel Energy, a utility with $10.7 billion in revenues, thus clearing the way for the city to form its own municipal utility that would lower rates and make greater use of renewable energy.

The pairing is well represented in the literary world. Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski -- none was a stranger to the bottle.

A Boulder, Colo., firm hired by the city to assist the city of Camden in upgrading design guidelines for historic properties presented a preliminary document outlining those updates to the Camden Historic Landmarks Commission during a public workshop Thursday.

It's been an eventful 36 hours, as people northeast of Boulder, Colorado know. If you're in Gunbarrel, Niwot or even Longmont, you got a triple-whammy: sub-zero temperatures, a gas line failure that caused over 7,000 homes to be without heat for 24-hours or longer, and an electrical outage to boot.

Fewer than 20 Niwot and Gunbarrel homes and businesses - out of the 7,200 affected - remained without natural gas Sunday night after Xcel crews worked through the weekend to restore services.

September's floods did a number on the wells and septic systems of many Boulder County residents, with testing still revealing contamination in some wells nearly three months later.

Wisconsin's ultra-liberal capital city is a place where just about anything goes, from street parties to naked bike rides.