Some people though Ken Chlouber was crazy when he proposed holding an ultramarathon at 10,000 feet as a way to draw people to Leadville at a time when the city economy was struggling dramatically.

LEADVILLE, Colo — The mystery is solved. The people buried in unmarked graves in a Leadville cemetery have been identified. And thanks to the generosity of others, they also have a memorial to their ...

Frontier grit meets modern mountain culture in Leadville, Colorado. Bike or hike the 11.6-mile Mineral Belt Trail for its mining history, views, and golden aspens in the fall. Catch a show at the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If you’re like a lot of Front Range residents, you’ve taken the highway exits for Breckenridge, Keystone and Vail, some of the state’s biggest ski resorts.

Rust-colored piles of mine waste and sun-bleached wooden derricks loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville—a legacy of gold and silver mines polluting the Arkansas River basin more ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Leadville could have withered along with the sputtering mine up the road. But the community recast itself as a tourist destination, rich with cultural and ...

LEADVILLE, Colorado – An industrial building exploded in Leadville on Friday afternoon, injuring two people and expelling flames from 250 to 300 feet high, said deputy Steve James with Lake County ...

For the past 21 summers, Jane Harelson and her hot dog stand have been found in the same spot— a sidewalk in front of the courthouse in downtown Leadville, CO. After deciding to quit her office job in ...

A Leadville lawyer will face the president of the Summit School District Board of Education in the Democratic primary for a ...