Last weekend’s series of wet storms bringing more than 3 feet of snow to the San Juans as well as some of the best powder days in recent memory
 

Lawmakers coming together this week in a rare show of bipartisanship on an immigration overhaul plan, which would give a path to citizenship for 11 million illegal residents

The recent drop in Colorado’s prison population, with 7,500 fewer inmates than expected in 2013 and a 33 percent drop in the felony crime rate from 2002-11
 

Backcountry skiers who refuse to heed avalanche warnings and blatantly dangerous conditions, including two boarders who dropped into Telluride’s notorious Temptation on Sunday, kicking off a massive slide
 

The U.S. economy unexpectedly contracting slightly at the end of 2012 for the first time in more than three years, signaling the recession refuses to relinquish its grip

 
The Winter X Games being marred once again by a tragic accident, this time 25-year-old snowmobiler Caleb Moore, who is in critical condition in a Denver hospital