The official opening of the Twin Buttes trails, adding at least 10 more miles of buff singletrack options to local recreationists
Mortgage giant Chase refinancing loans for tens of thousands of strapped or underwater borrowers who otherwise would be unable to refinance as part of the $25 billion government mortgage settlement

Recent predictions that Colorado is headed for a long, early winter, bringing dreams of bountiful turns to powder-starved skiers

The summer of 2012 registering the fourth-lowest flows on the Animas River in 100 years
 

17 million Americans, or 5.5 percent of the country’s population, suffering “very low food security” in 2011, even as Congress debates slashing $16 billion from the food stamp program
 
The recent outbreak of deadly violence in the Middle East over an internet film, which resulted in the death of the American ambassador in Libya, Christopher Stevens