Aspen News

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.

Aspen-area dirt bikers are unhappy they've been booted off their longtime playground on Smuggler Mountain ASPEN, Colorado - 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.

For good reason, Dan Mills remembers precisely the day he moved from northern Illinois to Tennessee.

CARBONDALE - The 2009 Carbondale Summer of Music Concert Series opens Sunday, June 28, in Sopris Park, with local favorites BooCoo and Friends, featuring Chris Bank, Joe Kelly and Chris Goplerud, kicking things off.

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.

Aspen Film and the Aspen Music Festival will co-present the SummerFilms series, with film screenings through the season at Paepcke Auditorium.

Below are excerpts of e-mails, obtained by The State newspaper in December, between Gov.

Hearing halted in sexual assault, kidnapping case for Carbondale man case after defense protests report ASPEN, Colorado - 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.

A local man plans to open shop in Carbondale next month for what he believes will be the Roaring Fork Valley's first dispensary for medical marijuana.