One of the most controversial films of 2009 is now available on DVD. "The Cove" won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival 2009, then went o...
AP | MEAD GRUVER | Posted 12.09.2009 | Denver
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The three members of Wyoming congressional delegation is among 28 Republican lawmakers who oppose changing the Clean Water Act ...
Jeremy Nichols | Posted 12.01.2009 | Denver
Here's an international embarrassment waiting to happen. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is not only planning to tag along with Obama in Copenhagen, he's going to be a keynote speaker.
AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 12.01.2009 | Denver
WASHINGTON — The Transportation Department said Tuesday it has fined the El Paso Corp. and a Colorado subsidiary $2.3 million for safety violati...
AP | HENRY C. JACKSON | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — With more Americans going hungry than ever before, the Agriculture Department is concerned that dozens of states aren't adequately ...
AP | Posted 11.15.2009 | Home
DRIGGS, Idaho — An 11-year-old Idaho boy fatally shot a black bear on his family's front porch after he said it wouldn't leave. The boy was at ...
The Aspen Times | Matt Joyce | Posted 11.13.2009 | Denver
CHEYENNE, Wyo. Some national forests in Wyoming are trimming their budgets, including possible campground closures, as the regional U.S. Forest Servic...
Posted 11.13.2009 | Denver
In a study by the University of Cambridge in England, Colorado has been ranked the fourth happiest state in the U.S. The study suggests that state...
Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
Do we want energy development on our public lands to intensify global warming or a national energy policy that promotes technologies that are renewable and create four times jobs as fossil fuels?
Posted 10.15.2009 | Denver
As the days start to get shorter and the temperatures begin to drop, it's prime time for a weekend getaway to shake the fall blues. We want to know: ...
Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green
Glacier National Park could lose all its glaciers, Joshua Tree National Park all its Joshua trees and Saguaro National Park all its saguaros, according to a new report on climate change from NRDC.
Posted 12.01.2009 | Denver
Ken Burns has created yet another cinematic masterpiece with "National Parks: America's Best Idea" which chronicles the history of the United States n...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics
I encourage everyone, no matter what part of these United States you live in (or even if you live elsewhere), to take a "trip out West" at some point in your life. Get in a car, and go explore everything west of Denver.
The Denver Post | Posted 11.21.2009 | Denver
What city or town has the best tasting water in Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming? Aurora, of course....
Michael Likosky | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
The United Kingdom Information Commissioner recently named Balfour Beatty and LAZ Parking Company's parent, Vinci, as having funded a secret 15-year long blacklisting operation.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Mike Enzi, one of three Republicans ostensibly negotiating health care reform as part of the Senate's "Gang of Six," told a Wyoming town hall crowd th...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business
JACKSON, Wyo. — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday offered his most optimistic outlook since the financial crisis struck, saying th...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green
Seeing President Obama and his family take in two of the western parks prompted me to strongly encourage everyone -- yes, even you! -- to plan on a trip like this at some point.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green
When the Obamas visit Yellowstone National Park, they will witness the beauty for which it is known. Sadly, though, they'll also witness firsthand the domestic ravages of global warming.
Toby Barlow | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
So if they won't let you carry a gun in New York but they will in Wyoming, you just go get yourself a gun license in Wyoming, pick up your weapon, conceal it, and head on back to uppity ol' New York.
CBS Denver | Posted 07.25.2009 | Home
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department plans to have the results of the drawing for resident elk, deer and antelope licenses available on its Web site o...
Nicholas Carlson | Posted 07.06.2009 | Style
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has acquired for himself a simple country abode: the Irma Lake Lodge, a $9 million, 492-acre Wyoming ranch. We have the pics here.
AP | MATTHEW BROWN and BEN NEARY | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green
BILLINGS, Mont. — A pair of federal judges will decide which states in the Northern Rockies have enough gray wolves to allow public hunting, as ...
Nathan Hegedus | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
Sadly, in both the Old West and the new West, the big boys in the smoke-filled rooms always need a Dick Cheney.
Reproductive Justice | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
Any gay student at Grandfield High School has been taught a dubious lesson. They have learned they better keep quiet until they are old enough to leave town.
Posted 12.10.2009 | Green