Jason Blevins

A record 96.8 million travelers in Colorado spent $29.2 billion in 2025, a slight increase from 2024 and a continuation of a nearly 10-year record-setting streak for the state's robust tourism economy.

Gunnison County Sheriff Adam Murdie will stop working with federal agents who are deporting residents as part of a national immigration crackdown by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Spending in 18 high country communities dropped to a 4-year low in 2025-26, when visitation numbers fell and snow didn't. But towns are diversifying economies and showing resilience to bad snow years.

The 256,000 hikers counted on 58 14ers by the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative in 2025 is down from 415,000 in 2020. The decline shows traffic is spread out, away from the most-popular peaks.

Colorado's high country towns are cutting budgets after a slow winter pinched critical sales tax revenue.

Pushing passes falls aside as Breckenridge, Keystone lead strategic shift in resort operator’s marketing plan

In this interview, the Kyiv Independent's Jason Blevins speaks with Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia and a scholar who closely observed Russia's transition after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Trailing off Hiker counts on Colorado's 14ers fall to 10-year low, and that's just fine

In this episode of Ukraine This Week, Anna Belokur examines 35 years of Ukrainian independence and the centuries of Russian attempts to control, suppress, and ultimately deny Ukraine's sovereignty.

There are now three lawsuits in Colorado's federal court arguing that resort companies are violating antitrust laws with their pricing for passes and lift tickets