Native American tribes are emerging leaders in the drying basin. With the oldest claims to water, Native American tribes in the Colorado River Basin command a considerable role in directing the region ...

SILVERTHORNE — City Market grocery worker Oumar Ba breathed deep in Colorado’s Blue River Valley between wilderness mountains, remembering the beauty of his native Senegal. “I love the river ...

Colorado’s mining board on Thursday voted unanimously against granting a required state permit for a proposed new gravel pit mine north of Silverthorne in the protected Blue River Valley.