Rocks fall from the sky, and sometimes people get hurt, but it?s rarer than you might think.

For years, the town of Telluride battled to acquire the Valley Floor from its owner so the 570 acres of scenic bottomlands could be forever preserved as open space.

A planned hotel and condo development in Mountain Village is up for review again today in front of the town?s council and design review board. The meeting is the latest in a process that developers have waded through as they seek to parlay a standing approval into an alternate plan that is taller and potentially more lucrative for the town, as it offers a true hotel within the walls of the development.

The San Miguel Resource Center sponsored an equal pay bake sale on Colorado Avenue and Pine Street all day on Wednesday. Luana Castellano and David Martinez listened as Megan Roode, advocate manager for the center, explained the prices for the homemade goods, which change with gender and ethnicity. Martinez, who purchased cinnamon rolls and cookies for $2.70 under the Hispanic Man price, said: ?Quite a deal. It?s the first time there was an advantage to be that.? [Photo by Brian Kozak]

The Telluride Elks Lodge #692 is proud to announce that Albert J. (AJ) Rekdahl is the first student in the history of San Miguel County to reach the national level of competition for the prestigious Elks National Foundation Most Valuable Student Scholarship.

In 2008, when Coloradans got a say in whether the Democrats would nominate their first black candidate or their first woman candidate for president, the caucuses were a very big deal.

As President Obama calls for more nuclear power, Colorado contemplates putting two uranium mills into operation.

In the middle of the summer of 1988, a young band from Vermont drove a beat-up truck across the country to Telluride to play a string of shows here.

Everyone knows Telluride doesn?t look like Vail or even its haughty cousin Aspen, with a downtown studded with concrete buildings.

He traveled from his home in Dolores County for work. He drilled holes and lit dynamite and hauled rocks up from underground ? rocks that not only powered a nation but paid his family?s bills. But when uranium mines near the Utah border closed this fall, Larry Kibel lost his job along with scores of other workers, and he found himself part of a very unfortunate statistic.

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