Fort Collins Coloradoan

By far the stellar highlight in this month's Colorado sky is the so-called "Summer Sapphire," the bright star Vega, which is currently gleaming almost directly overhead at the onset of darkness.

A defiant Dan Maes said Friday he will stay on the ballot as the Republican gubernatorial nominee, rejecting pleas from party leaders and grassroots activists to exit the race.

CANON CITY, Colo. (AP) — It's happy trails for Buckskin Joe, the replica Old West town in Colorado that served as a setting as for Westerns like "True Grit" and "White Buffalo."

The Balloon Boy and his family have flown the coop.

The search for Stewie, the dachshund who fled the scene after his owner died in a single-vehicle car crash along Taft Hill Road Aug. 18, has been suspended after scent trails and sightings of the dog dried up.

The Tour de Fat, a zany cycling event that is one of Fort Collins' most popular events, headlines things to do the next three days in town.

There's no probable cause that organizers of a failed effort to recall Fort Collins City Council member Lisa Poppaw violated municipal campaign laws, a special prosecutor said this week.

MIAMI (AP) — A scientist has been detained at the Miami International Airport after screeners spotted a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb, prompting an evacuation, a government official said

GRAND LAKE, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say a run-in between a moose and a toddler in north-central Colorado appears to be a freak accident.

Fort Collins police this morning arrested a man they say broke into a tortilla kitchen in Old Town and "trashed" the interior.

A series of smoky grass fires sparked by a van driving north on U.S. Highway 287 from Loveland to Fort Collins snarled Thursday afternoon traffic and forced area road closures.

Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden has called one of the men running to replace him "pretty paranoid" over concerns about how a Alderden-hosted debate next week is shaping up.

Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden has called one of the men running to replace him "pretty paranoid" over concerns about how a Alderden-hosted debate next week is shaping up.

Rep. Betsy Markey will need to go on the offensive against Republican Cory Gardner - and soon - if she hopes to win a second term, two Colorado State University political scientists said after a poll by a GOP-affiliated group showed the challenger with a comfortable lead.

In all the photos Irene Zaidi has of her nephew, Austin Padia, there isn't one where he isn't smiling.

Just days before tens of thousands of CSU and CU fans descend upon Denver for the Rocky Mountain Showdown football game, university officials are reminding students to be good neighbors in Fort Collins.

More than two dozen people were evacuated Thurs-day following a gas-line break at 4742 Glen Isle Drive in western Loveland.

As the first tinges of gold grace aspen stands across the Rocky Mountains this month, Labor Day weekend and the rest of September will offer plenty of outdoor opportunities for the leaf-peeping masses in Northern Colorado, culminating in National Public Lands Day on Sept. 25.