Aspen News

Snowmass Village firefighter and paramedic Brandon Potter prepares to hand out stuffed animals to children in the African village of Kolunga, an island community in Lake Victoria, Kenya, last year.

Amber Fisk, a former employee of Aspen/Pitkin County Airport, was given a four-year deferred sentence Monday for using a county credit card to rack up about $3,900 in personal charges while she was employed in the airport's administrative office.

Opening night at the Roaring Fork Open and performance by rapper Ghostface Killah mark Thursday night's entertainment options in Aspen.

An Aspen man Monday pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer, and will likely face four years in prison.

The Roaring Fork Business Resource Center and Colorado Mountain College are presenting a series of workshops for people considering starting their own businesses.

For much of its existence, the Roaring Fork Open - the Aspen Art Museum's non-juried show of work by local artists - was a paint-it-and-drop-it-off affair.

MEH An Aspen Music Festival student performed on the violin at the TED gathering at the home of Terry and Susanna Temescu.

ASPEN, Colo. -- A determined Colorado man found his missing cell phone at a trash dump after dialing the number and listening for the ring.

Election Day is closing in, so Roaring Fork Valley residents of Pitkin and Eagle counties must either get their ballots in the mail or, to be safe, deliver them to their county clerk's office.

Ruthie Brown of Aspen and her family are using the dam built by her great grandfather in 1920 on a ranch near Creede to build a modern micro-hydro project.

Dead lodgepole pines ring a Forest Service campground. Courtesy U.S. Forest Service GLENWOOD SPRINGS - The U.S. Forest Service's increased focus on removing dead trees along roads, trails and campgrounds won't hit Pitkin and Garfield counties nearly as hard as Eagle and Summit counties, according to the organizer of the effort.

A new nightspot, the Hunter Bar, will open this weekend in an Aspen space that has seen its share of ventures come and go.

For more than a month, valley readers participating in The Big Read have been discussing, examining, and experiencing in various forms "To Kill a Mockingbird." In the process, Harper Lee's classic 1960 story has inspired conversation and reflections on racism and justice, childhood and innocence, tolerance and community, and the virtues and flaws ...

Aspen is once again a dead-end town. Highway 82 over Independence Pass will remain closed for the winter season, the Colorado Department of Transportation announced Thursday.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 3:10 p.m. ASPEN, Colo. a ' A mysterious twine strung across a trail as if to injure a speeding bicyclist has the attention of criminal investigators in Pitkin County.

As you can see, 300 people spelled out "Save Snow" on the base of Aspen's mountain on October 24 as part of 350.org's "International Day of Climate Action." They were one of 5,248 participating rallies worldwide.

The Aspen/Pitkin County Housing Authority will spend $117,600 to pay for studies of all 56 homeowners' associations within the affordable housing program to determine if they have enough capital reserve funds to cover future repairs and replacements in their buildings.

A citizen committee will recommend to the Aspen City Council that properties built in the first few decades following World War II be historically designated without property owners' consent.

The 20-year-old man who was found dead in a hot tub Wednesday morning likely drowned, a coroner said Thursday.

A Basalt man won a sports bet but all he collected were two felonies, according to police.