CATHERINE TSAI

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Rock super group Yukon Kornelius playing in Vail

The rock super group Yukon Kornelius has rarely played a show since its busy members first performed in 2008 after appearing together in the Warren Miller ski flick "Children of Winter."

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Colo., Okla., Pa., Wyo. push for natural-gas cars

The governors of Colorado, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Wyoming are teaming up to encourage U.S. automakers to develop affordable vehicles that run on natural gas, a valuable resource in each of their states.

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Vail Resorts adds photo features to EpicMix app

Tens of thousands of skiers used Vail Resorts Inc.'s free EpicMix application last season to track how much they were skiing and to compete with friends and strangers over how many digital pins they could collect for their feats.

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Halliburton exec. takes a swig of fracking fluid

An energy company executive's sip of fracking fluid at an industry conference this month has been called a demonstration by some and a stunt by others, but it's bringing attention to new recipes for hydraulic fracturing fluids that in the past have contained chemicals commonly used for antifreeze or bleaching hair.

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Sports Authority takes over Broncos' stadium name

Until this week, sporting goods retailer Sports Authority Inc. has had its name on community stadiums in suburban Denver and Douglas County schools. On Tuesday, it won a deal to have its name on the stadium where the Denver Broncos play.

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With right tune, musical desk reveals its secrets

Denver woodworker Kagen Schaefer drew mazes as a kindergartner to stump his dad. He was building 3-D puzzles out of cardboard by the time he was 11.

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Group promotes sportsmen's agenda in Washington

A fledgling outdoorsmen's group released a broad agenda Wednesday aimed at giving conservation-minded sportsmen's groups a united voice before federal policy makers.

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Winter sports gear sales could hit a record $3.2B

Cold, snowy weather and an improving economy are pushing sales of skis, snowboards and other winter sports gear to what could be a record season, an industry researcher said Wednesday.

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MediaNews subsidiary buys Lehman Communications

The publisher of the Boulder Camera has acquired the company that publishes the Longmont Times-Call, the Loveland Reporter-Herald and the Canon City Daily Record.

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New MapQuest site shows US maps for, by the people

MapQuest is diving farther into crowdsourcing, with online maps edited by the people, for the people.

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Colo. regulators back switching coal unit to gas

Colorado regulators agreed Thursday that Xcel Energy Inc. should switch another coal-fired power plant unit in Denver to run on natural gas as part of its plan to cut emissions, an option that wasn't the utility's first or second choice.

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Forest Service keeps eye on timber industry health

A strong wood-products industry is key to removing thousands of dead, bark beetle-infested trees that threaten to topple onto roads, power lines and campsites or harm watersheds around the West, U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said Monday.

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Ex-Chrysler dealer hits snag in bid to sell again

A car dealer's effort to start selling Jeeps and Chryslers again has hit a roadblock.

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Authorities lift fire evacuations in Colorado

More than 1,700 people evacuated because of a wildfire west of Boulder are being allowed to return to their homes after firefighters worked through the night to stop the fire from spreading.

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Ski resorts storm the slopes with new apps

This season, there's more to technology on the ski slopes than the new shapes in skis.

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Xcel Energy focusing on new coal-to-gas plan

Xcel Energy's plan to retire about 900 megawatts of coal-fired power generation by 2022 is off the table, as it focuses on doing it by 2017 instead.

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BLM moves on Round 2 of Colo, Utah oil shale deals

Nominations for three more leases of federal land in Colorado and Utah for oil shale research are advancing for more review, the Bureau of Land Management said Wednesday.

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Counselors monitoring prison officers with PTSD

John Brownfield Jr. became a corrections officer following deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Colo. regulators hold hearings on Xcel smart grid

Xcel Energy's SmartGridCity is supposed to be an experiment in what a modern energy grid might look like.

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Ranchers differ on benefit of new antitrust rules

Hundreds of impassioned ranchers from around the country clashed at a workshop Friday over a proposed federal rule that aims to preserve competition in a livestock industry dominated by a handful of corporate giants.

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Female circumcision victims seek out Colo. doctor

This picturesque southern Colorado town known for decades as the sex-change capital of the world — thousands of gender-reassignment operations have been performed here — is becoming a beacon for victims of female genital mutilation.

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EPA undertakes overdue review on oil, gas rules

The Environmental Protection Agency is reviewing four air emission rules for oil and natural gas operations, albeit many years later than it should have done so.

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EPA seeks comment in Denver on fracking study

Natural gas industry groups on Tuesday urged the Environmental Protection Agency to limit the scope of an upcoming study on the effects of a natural gas extraction process known as fracking.

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Expanded gambling revenue lower than expected

Colorado gambling tax revenue is up one year after casinos started expanding their hours, games and betting limits under a new law. But it's not up as much as expected.

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MapQuest beta version has a cleaner, simpler look

MapQuest was long the leader among websites giving people online directions, but Google Maps surpassed it in 2008.

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