Telluride News

The skyline of the mountains to the southwest of Telluride was changed last night when through some mighty upheaval of nature, the taller spire of Lizard Head fell with a roar to the depths below.

You may have heard that Bill Gates has a pool with an underwater sound system. And that Tony Stark's high rise houses 3-D holographic computer displays.

Officials in the southwestern Colorado town of Mountain Village say nine people and a dog had to be lowered from gondola cars when a gearbox problem caused the system to shut down.The Telluride Daily Planet reports rescuers used ropes and harnesses to get the passengers out of eight cars and down to the ground on Tuesday.

Mountainfilm in Telluride closed out its 34th annual festival on Monday with an awards ceremony in Telluride's Town Park, recognizing six films for various prizes and naming the nonprofit organization Peaceful Uprising as winner of the 2012 Moving Mountains Prize.

Don Swank and the Color Guard will be at attention and the guard has military members coming from Cortez, Dolores, Summit Ridge and other parts of the valley.

Big Head Todd & The Monsters and KOTOfm will present the inaugural Ride Festival on Aug.

The summer festival season kicks off this Memorial Weekend with the Downtown Denver Arts Festival, Odell Brewing Small Batch Festival in Fort Collins, Mountainfilm Festival in Telluride, and the Boulder Creek Festival and Boulder Boulder Race.

Big Head Todd and The Monsters and KOTOfm today unveil the inaugural Ride Festival - August 25-26, 2012 in Telluride, Colorado - featuring Big Head Todd & The Monsters, Ben Harper , Los Lobos , JJ Grey & Mofro , The Lumineers , North Mississippi Allstars , The Wood Brothers , and more.

Telluride, CO -- High in the San Juans of Colorado's Rocky Mountains an historic mining town comes to life during the Summer Solstice.

The former brother-in-law of a Democratic fundraiser imprisoned for cheating banks out of nearly $300 million will not serve jail time after pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge in New York.

In 1889, when Butch Cassidy robbed the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride, Colo.

The actor's wife, Kimberly , withdrew her petition for divorce last month after they retreated to Telluride, Colo., to talk and agreed to stay together, a source tells E! News.

Research assistant Hanna Ding, left, and researcher Mark Williams look in a container of snow trucked in from southwest Colorado on Thursday.