Stickers the porcupine, the charismatic denizen of Prospect Basin, had scores of visitors each day. He was the star of more than a dozen YouTube videos, and even had a Facebook fan page (151 fans.)

A local man was indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday on a bank fraud charge in connection with a $300 million scheme that spans major American banks.

Of all the French toast joints in all the world, they?ll always have Lift 4.

It used to be that if you wanted your own place, not just a timeshare, but your own deed to a ski condo in Mountain Village, you had to pony up several hundred thousand dollars or so.

Members from the Westboro Baptist Church are planning an anti-gay rally during Telluride?s 10th annual Gay Ski Week, slated for Feb. 20-27. According to the group?s Web site, they will rally from 4:45 to 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 23 near the Capella Telluride during a a benefit for the Matthew Shepard Foundation at which Judy Shepard, Matthew?s mother, will speak. 

Ellie the yellow Labrador retriever, a beloved member of the Telluride Ski Patrol, was put down this week due to cancer in her lungs. She was 9 years old. More sad news. Ellie, aka Elvira Wunderlick, ski patrollers Gary and Kim Richard?s avalanche dog had to be put down yesterday. She belonged to Gary and Kim Richard, longtime patrollers. The ski patrol uses the dogs to search for avalanche victims on the occasion of a slide, but the dogs are a source of companionship and comfort as much as anything. Ellie was a quick learner, with a solid search drive and keen nose. And she loved powder days. She was a driven little dog and on the job until the end. She was also a great family dog, beloved by Belle and Matthew, the Richard children. She is survived by her sister Dulce, who still plys the trade for the Telluride Ski Patrol. [File photo by Ben Knight]

For four days, some of world?s best skiers are in Telluride, leaving their signatures on the flanks of Palmyra. The difference between their tracks and most: usually, theirs gap for long periods of time, cliff drops serving as breaks in their writing. 

The husky voice on the other end of the line at the Town of Telluride is leaving town. 

It was a scarce few weeks ago that Dr. Diana Koelliker was treating a man who was having a heart attack. As he clutched his chest in the ER wing of the Telluride Medical Center, a patient on the other side of a cloth curtain was in screaming pain.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) ? The economic downturn, weak natural-gas prices and job losses in the energy field are catching up to the Grand Junction area, after a stretch of unprecedented growth.

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