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FIS cancels Birds of Prey races

FIS cancels Birds of Prey races

The International Ski Federation on Thursday announced the cancellation of the 2016 Audi Birds of Prey FIS World Cup at Beaver Creek due to unseasonably warm weather and a lack…

Blast of winter heading into Colorado as Keystone, Breck, Copper set to open

Blast of winter heading into Colorado as Keystone, Breck, Copper set to open

True, it’s been a very slow start to the 2016-17 ski season, with several Colorado ski resorts postponing opening days, but the good news is that’s all about to change…

Eagle-Vail’s Shiffrin wins 9th straight World Cup slalom; Vonn breaks arm in training

Eagle-Vail’s Shiffrin wins 9th straight World Cup slalom; Vonn breaks arm in training

Eagle-Vail’s Mikaela Shiffrin won her ninth straight World Cup slalom race in typically dominating fashion Saturday in Levi, Finland, turning in a two-run time of 1 minute, 52.7 seconds to…

Cross is boss at Battle Mountain but soccer, skiing not too shabby either

Cross is boss at Battle Mountain but soccer, skiing not too shabby either

Battle Mountain High School is on a championship roll of late. The boy’s soccer team is gunning for its second state championship in the last four years on Saturday at…

Huskies great Campbell named to CHSAA Hall of Fame

Huskies great Campbell named to CHSAA Hall of Fame

Jeff Campbell, Battle Mountain High School’s best football player of all time — and arguably the school’s greatest athlete ever — will be inducted into the Colorado High School Activities…

Eagle-Vail’s Shiffrin second in Soelden giant slalom as Gut wins by nearly 2 seconds

Eagle-Vail’s Shiffrin second in Soelden giant slalom as Gut wins by nearly 2 seconds

Eagle-Vail’s Mikaela Shiffrin on Saturday repeated last year’s second-place finish in the season-opening World Cup giant slalom at Soelden, Austria. Shiffrin last won the race, her only career GS victory,…

Arapahoe Basin opening Friday; Loveland Ski Area next week

Arapahoe Basin opening Friday; Loveland Ski Area next week

After another small dose of winter weather on Tuesday night, Arapahoe Basin ski area on Colorado’s Continental Divide announced on Wednesday that it will open for the 2016-17 ski season…

Warm, windy weather plaguing firefighting, snowmaking crews in Colorado high country

Warm, windy weather plaguing firefighting, snowmaking crews in Colorado high country

Warm, windy weather was hampering firefighting efforts between Aspen and Vail on Monday and limiting snowmaking at ski resorts like Loveland and Arapahoe Basin that are trying to crank up…

Ski-area snowguns crank up as winter weather forces I-70, Loveland Pass to shut down

Ski-area snowguns crank up as winter weather forces I-70, Loveland Pass to shut down

The first little blast of winter hit Colorado’s high country Tuesday morning, allowing both Loveland Ski Area and Arapahoe Basin to kick off the race to open first for the…

Outdoor industry manufacturing jobs seen as key to diversifying rural Colorado economies

Outdoor industry manufacturing jobs seen as key to diversifying rural Colorado economies

The outdoor recreation industry will be under a microscope this week in Denver, with three different conferences focused at least in part on the economic viability of manufacturing jobs that…