Fort Collins Coloradoan

Thousands attended the annual Tour De Fat costumed bike ride through Fort Collins sponsored by New Belgium Brewery Saturday Sept. 4, 2010.

DENVER -- The skid continues for the CSU football team.

The economy and job growth are the dominant issues in the 2010 campaign, and Democratic incum-bent Betsy Markey and Republican challenger Cory Gardner offer differing approaches on how to get the country back on track.

Labor Day weekend will bring warm days and cool nights.

It was shortly before 8 a.m. this morning that Anne Schreck began putting on her cherry-red wig, lime green contacts and white face paint in preparation for today's Tour de Fat event.

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A special prosecutor's investigation turned up no evidence that laws were broken in the failed attempt to recall Fort Collins City Council member Lisa Poppaw.

DENVER - Dan Maes likes to brag about taking down the political machine in becoming Colorado's Republican gubernatorial nominee. The way he's going, it might be the only victory in a short-lived political career.

The Balloon Boy and his family have flown the coop.

The Fort Collins Natural Areas program has paid $800,000 for the 23-acre site near the east side of Fossil Creek Reservoir.

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

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

The Fort Collins Rotary Breakfast Club's 2010 Annual peach sale is under way.

Twenty years ago, Loveland's Winter Holiday Council needed to find a way to fund its annual city Christmas decorating.

DENVER - With the summer travel season unofficially coming to a close this weekend, the Colorado State Patrol and law enforcement agencies across the state are ramping up DUI enforcement with a goal of zero drug- or alcohol-related fatalities this holiday weekend.

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.