Denver Post

It’s hard to get much more “Colorado” than wrapping up a day’s adventure in the mountains by sipping a craft beer at a local brewery — unless, perhaps, the beer you’re sipping was brewed with ingredients handpicked from the majestic Rocky Mountains themselves.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Eight months into the Trump administration, a slate of top federal jobs in Colorado and the West remains unfilled — a hiring delay that touches everything from the environment to criminal justice and one which local leaders and activists said hampers their ability to work with the White House.

Judianne Atencio appreciates that her childhood was unusual. Unique, even.
“We knew it very, very early on,” she said from Denver last week. “My father worked at Disney for his whole career, and we always say our family history and Disney history are so intertwined.”
For the Atencio family, that history included all-access visits to Disneyland attractions, where the family often wound up after church on Sunday mornings.

As confusion ensued after the Equifax data breach affecting up to 143 million consumers, what remained very clear was that some of the stolen data will haunt people forever.
Social Security numbers, birth dates, home address histories — you just can’t change those things, which led privacy researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis to quip on Twitter, “Don’t forget to change your name, date of birth, home address and Social Security number regularly.”

COPPER MOUNTAIN — Dave Repsher and Matt Martinez occasionally crossed paths in the years they worked as volunteers at Copper Mountain — Repsher with the ski patrol and Martinez with the mountain safety patrol.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

There’s a moment that occurs toward the end of every vacation, in which you fantasize about “forgetting” to load the car and to get back to reality. You can unpack your bags for real in this quintessential Colorado home, listed at $2,595,000.

Bad news, Dolly Madison fans: The summer-long closure of the Chipotle store at the corner of Evans Avenue and South Gilpin Street did not restore the space to its former ice-cream scooping glory.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

MEEKER — In this town, with no stoplights and no Starbucks, life moves slower.
Except online.

After a 211 Crew parolee killed Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements in 2013, officials began banishing leaders of the white supremacist gang to prisons across the U.S. through an inmate-swapping system in which high-risk prisoners are secretly traded from one state to the next, The Denver Post has learned.

With the recent sale of the 83,000-acre, fourteener-hosting Cielo Vista Ranch in the San Luis Valley, longtime landowners across Colorado are testing the market by listing their so-called legacy ranches for jaw-dropping prices.