Once bustling with the chatter of miners and the clinking of pickaxes, Colorado's abandoned mining towns stand today as silent witnesses to a time of great ambition and bitter disappointment.

With the impending closure of three of Xcel Energy’s coal-fired powerplants, the communities of Pueblo, Hayden, Meeker, Oak ...

Is Tim Walz as engaged at the Capitol as past governors? Republicans say he rarely meets with them. Rust-colored piles of mine waste and sun-bleached wooden derricks loom above the historic ...

To get a taste for the city's rich history as a Colorado Gold Rush mining town, stop at the Western Museum of Mining & Industry. Here, you'll learn what it took to make the most of the area's ...

This beautiful town, which was established during the Colorado mining boom in the late 1800s, is surrounded by the jagged peaks of the San Juan Mountains. The site of Butch Cassidy's first bank ...

As the owner Cross and Caribou mines outside Nederland seeks to resume mining, the town of Nederland and nearby residents ...

A Colorado-based company say it’s committing to efforts to build an AI data center in Glencoe, after a flirtation over the winter with the small rural town of Mountain Lake. Revolve Labs, which ...