Gold Medal Win: Elizabeth Lemley, a 20-year-old mogul skier from Vail, won Olympic gold in the women's moguls competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Livigno, Italy on Wednesday, February 11, 2026. Her Performance: She scored 82.30 with a pair of cork 7s to top the eight-skier super final
Colorado water groups scramble to weigh in on historic Western Slope water rights case
This is indeed a historic water rights case that has generated significant attention across Colorado. Here’s what’s happening:The Shoshone Water Rights CaseThe Colorado River District is pursuing a $99 million purchase of two powerful water rights tied to the century-old Shoshone Power Plant in
Nottingham Ranch Conservation Easement: What Colorado’s $100M Land Deal Means for Vail Valley Property Owners
Quick Summary The Nottingham Ranch, a historic 19,000-acre property near Bond, Colorado, received a $10 million conservation easement from Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) in January 2026. This landmark decision protects senior Colorado River water rights and maintains working ranch land in Eagle
$100M ranch above Colorado River secures its future with conservation easement
When the 19,000-acre Nottingham Ranch property with senior water rights was listed, conservation groups spurred to create landscape-scale protection tools Nearly a decade ago, Susan Nottingham decided it was time to leave. Her family, which traces their Colorado ranching roots back to a homestead
Fifteen Must-Read Books About Colorado
Mon Dec 29 09:39:00 GMT 2025 Looking for a starter set of must-read books about Colorado before this state turns 150 in 2026? You can grab a new release by a local author for some great vacation reading, or check one of the available compendiums, like The Colorado Book and Reading Colorado, for
Mountain home for monks who labored in silence for 68 years sold to Palantir CEO Alex Karp
At the end of every school day for nine years, Chuck McKenna, the principal at Longfellow Elementary in Salida, would tell his teachers and students that he loved them. “From my very first day to my last, I would say ‘I love you all.’ Different kids would come ask me why I said that. Some
A $5 billion ski industry confronts a cold front in global tourism | FISCAL ROCKIES
By David O. Williams 12/18/2025 | updated 1 day ago The Beaver Creek Resort illuminated at night with ski runs. (PHOTO: Adventure_Photo, iStock). Vail and other Colorado ski towns are eyeing shaky global travel trends ahead of the 2025-26 ski season the way a novice snow rider might
Buyers Are Test-Driving Homes With Sleepovers
More people are asking to spend the night before making an offer. ‘You should try it before you buy it.’ Follow the WSJ in Apple News Last year, Eric Albert, 65, listed his roughly 11,095-square-foot, six-bedroom Newport Coast, Calif., estate for $60.2 million. An overseas couple watched a
The Wealthy Are Paying Big Money to Pump Oxygen Into Their Mountain Homes
Home-oxygenation systems are becoming the go-to amenity in high altitude towns. Kevin Rost’s new mountain home sits on a ridge at 10,500 feet of elevation, high above Telluride, Colo. So high that in the winter, it is only accessible by gondola. So high that some of Rost’s guests struggle to