While I do appreciate the willingness of Congress to shut down the federal government to keep my health insurance rates from possibly doubling next year (my wife and I don’t get subsidized rates throu...

Trump is sending in the troops, and, on June 8, this is just the beginning. Forget the fact he’s spending $45 million for an unprecedented peacetime military parade in D.C. to celebrate the birthday o...

An oil train above the Colorado River in Eagle County last summer (David O. Williams photo). Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser on Thursday issued a forceful statement on the U.S. Supreme Court una...

Federal agents have been active this week in mountain communities, according to numerous sources, enforcing an immigration crackdown by the Trump administration. That has members of the local Latino c...

Vail Health Behavioral Health Executive Director Chris Lindley shows off the Precourt Healing Center’s state-of-the-art kitchen during an April tour, as Vail Health Public Relations Director Sally Wel...

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ROLA’s truck by train rail solution in Austria in 2019 (photo courtesy of ROLA blog). Retired Amtrak conductor Brad Swartzwelter has achieved minor celebrity since a story on his truck by train rail b...

RealVail.com over the weekend was added to a Signal messenger app text string between Trump cabinet secretaries discussing a housing plan aimed at high-end resort areas that will apparently be part of...

A pair of Western Slope Republicans vying for Colorado Republican Party leadership slots at Saturday’s statewide GOP reorganization meeting in Castle Rock say it’s time to move past the bitter...

With a Trump Aviation custom Boeing 757 across the street at the Eagle County Regional Airport, dozens of protesters gathered in front of the local Tesla dealership on Saturday with signs such as “Tru...

No, by all means, let’s keep doing this on the main highway through the Colorado mountains. Semi crash in Glenwood Canyon (photo courtesy of CDOT). With temperatures in the Eagle River Valley surpassi...

Thursday night was one of brutal critique for Telluride Ski & Golf owner Chuck Horning, who bore the brunt of a rare public rebuke from the town manager of nearby

A longtime Amtrak train conductor credited with crafting a business plan that helped revive the mothballed Winter Park Express ski train in 2017 now has a plan to get at

A group of 20 attorneys general is suing the Trump administration over mass layoffs of probationary federal employees.

Jensy Machado, a naturalized US citizen from Virginia, believes US immigration agency profiles Hispanic people

Mike Murphy of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) visited Colorado late last month with a simple message for the state lawmakers and business leaders he met with: “Bad.....

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, second from left, testifies before the House Oversight Committee Wednesday (screenshot from House Oversight Committee YouTube). Colorado’s Republican members of Congress re...

Glenwood Canyon from the California Zephyr on Monday (David O. Williams photo). A little over seven months ago I was at my mom’s house in Birch Bay, Washington, when I wrote that President Joe Biden s...

In the Musk-Trump regime, “appropriations” has come to mean something more like “suggestions” or “ceilings.”

The White House had repeatedly said the funding freeze would not affect benefits that go directly to individuals.

The idea, a first indicator of Trump’s approach to the conflict, was sure to inflame the region given the history of Palestinians’ displacement from their territory.

You remember the ads from the 80s, right? “This is your brain [man holds up an egg]. This is ozone [he points to a hot skillet, cracks the egg into it,...

You remember the ads from the 80s, right? “This is your brain [man holds up an egg]. This is ozone [he points to a hot skillet, cracks the egg into it,...

Republican pollster Frank Luntz said on Friday that President Trump’s voters are “tired” of being accused of being sexist and racist. In a discussion about Trump’s remarks linking diversity, equity…

January has come and gone and we here at the Colorado Times Recorder are restarting our weekly roundup of articles relating to political extremism in Colorado. Since it has been...

A Trump takeover of Greenland could open the door to tech moguls’ mineral interests and their utopian aspirations.

VAIL • Sadly, Mary Bono will always be synonymous with the dangers of skiing. Her globally famous former husband, Sonny, died in a ski accident at Lake Tahoe’s Heavenly ski

As a plan to store the nation's nuclear waste circulates, people around Hayden aren't sure this is the "just transition" they want

The New York City tolling program began on Jan. 5 after defying obstacles for decades. A move to stop it would likely touch off a legal battle between the state and federal government.

Discipline and amplification are key

A Trump decreed “national energy emergency” suggests drillers should receive special waivers from Clean Water Act regulations

The move will abruptly shut off funding for a vast array of programs administered by state and local governments and nonprofits.

Various advocacy organizations are offering resources to help immigrant families in Colorado as fears of mass deportations grow under the new Trump administration. President Donald Trump was sworn int...

School leaders in the Denver metro area have shared plans for how to respond if immigration agents show up at schools.

Holy Cross Wilderness near Vail (John Fielder photo). America is exceptional in many regards. One of the most notable of our ideals encompasses 640 million acres: our system of public lands and waters...

Daneros uranium mine entries in the White Canyon district about 60 miles west of Blanding, Utah (photo courtesy of Utah Geological Survey). Testifying before a U.S. Senate committee on Thursday, Presi...

Special counsel Jack Smith’s report gives new insights into the investigative process, challenges his team faced and the reasoning that guided their decisions.

As Gov. Polis focuses exclusively on Front Range rail, others state to connect southern, western Colorado

Have you caught the rumor swirling around town that Aspen Skiing Co., or whatever they call it now, is for sale? I’ve heard the gossip more...

Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones has spoken with Colorado coach Deion Sanders about Dallas' open head coach position, a source confirmed to ESPN.

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