The $50M sale of 46,000-acre basin in San Luis Valley to the feds followed concern over Trump administration protection of ...

We were all-in until the world went nuts,” said Commissioner Christine Scanlan, who expressed concerns about federal management but ultimately voted in support of the sale.

East of the little town of San Luis in southern Colorado, the sage fields suddenly give way to a steep, creek-fed canyon topped by beaver ponds and meadows near 10,000 feet, overlooking the Sangre de ...

SAN LUIS — The fence stands 8 feet tall and slices across miles of the sagebrush sea of the San Luis Valley, dividing hillsides from creeks, creeks from wildlife. Frank Vigil stepped out of his truck ...

They can also find that increasingly in-demand commodity, outdoor solitude—if not in the increasingly popular Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve, then within the 1.8-million-acre Rio Grande ...

A federal district court in Denver has blocked drilling at least temporarily in Colorado’s San Luis Valley 30 miles north of Alamosa. HOUSTON, Sept. 8-- A federal district court in Denver has blocked ...

Its first university was founded in 1864, three years after the Colorado Territory — with largely the same boundaries as today’s state — was formed. And its gold rush began in 1858, while what would ...

When John Mestas' ancestors moved to Colorado over 100 years ago to raise sheep in the San Luis Valley, they "hit paradise," he says. "There was so much water, they thought it would never end," Mestas ...