Pitkin County News

We applaud District Court Judge Gail Nichols' recent decision in Arnold Myerstein's case against the city of Aspen and the Aspen/Pitkin County Housing Authority.

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.

Slightly more than one-third of the 4,576 property value protests reviewed in June by the Pitkin County Assessor's Office have been adjusted.

The city of Aspen and Pitkin County are accepting grant applications from area nonprofits for funding in 2010.

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.

Aspen-area dirt bikers, unhappy they've been booted off their longtime playground on Smuggler Mountain, plan to voice their dissatisfaction to the Pitkin County Open Space and Trails Board next month.

Rescuers were summoned to help a 73-year-old bicyclist Saturday after he got stuck in mud left from a slide on the Rio Grande Trail, then fell down a steep hill into the Roaring Fork River.

If area resident Joey Jones plays by the rules when he launches his business next month, it stands to reason he can set a good and noble example.

Chain saw-toting loggers could begin cutting beetle-infested trees on Smuggler Mountain as soon as Friday, as an experimental project to slow the spread of the beetles gets under way.

ASPEN, Colorado - An Aspen police officer - accused of child abuse and trying to sexually exploit a minor in a bathroom at the officer's home - was arrested Wednesday and has since resigned.

Pitkin County is making $26,500 available to help landowners pay for control of noxious weed on their properties.

A preliminary hearing Tuesday for a Carbondale man accused of sexual assault ground to a halt after the defense complained that it was not informed of a police interview made earlier in the case.

The city is reaching out to its part-time residents with a "Welcome Back to Aspen" event - an informal open house for part-time Aspenites.

At a time when local governments are downsizing, freezing wages and leaving positions unfilled, the Pitkin County Open Space and Trails Program has proposed expanding its staff next year.

A jury acquitted a Woody Creek man Friday of a misdemeanor harassment charge that stemmed from an alleged incident with a neighbor on Christmas Day.

While popular perception has everyone in Aspen eating fancy food and drinking classy wine, the reality is lots of people are struggling to get enough to eat.

Pitkin County is poised next week to purchase a patented mining claim above the Hunter Creek Valley and remove the threat of development on the last buildable, private parcel in what's often dubbed Aspen's playground.

Arnold Mordkin has made quite the name for himself since he took the lead prosecutor's post in Pitkin County last November.

Rescuers responded to Hays Creek Falls south of Redstone Tuesday afternoon after receiving a report of a man in need of help at the top of the falls.

Pitkin County won't back out of its share of the cost of battling bark beetles on Smuggler Mountain this summer, though, two commissioners on Tuesday suggested pulling the county's financial backing.