The Getches-Wilkinson Center is pleased to present the work of a team of students with the Acequia Assistance Project, who spent the last two years digging into the history, the politics, and law ...

KUSA - On April 9, 1851, Hispano farmers established the town of San Luis, Colorado. Today, the 164-year-old town is the state's oldest continuously occupied town. Located in south central Colorado ...

SAN LUIS — The fence stands 8 feet tall and slices across miles of the sagebrush sea of the San Luis Valley, dividing hillsides from creeks, creeks from wildlife. Frank Vigil stepped out of his truck ...

A front-row view of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains frames a line of grain silos overlooking a 150-year-old farm in southern Colorado. The fields would usually be green this time of year, grown lush on ...

A new project is aimed at preserving the culture and stories of the San Luis Valley. History Colorado will use a $300,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to collaborate with residents to identify ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CENTER — The sun beat down, baking Colorado’s bone-dry, cracking San Luis Valley, where farmers for eight years have been trying to save their depleted ...

Reporting from FORT GARLAND, Colo. — Shortly after dawn, I pulled into this tiny town and studied a mural on the side of the post office. It was more than a painting; it was an illustrated map of Los ...

In the San Luis Valley, Mexican American culture runs deep. The Hispano people who settled in the area during the Spanish colonization of the Southwest have held onto their traditions for hundreds of ...

A hiker enjoys the solitude on San Luis Peak, one of Colorado's least-climbed fourteeners. Credit: Terri Cook and Lon Abbott The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For ...

On Friday, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis announced that flags across the state will be lowered to half-staff to honor the life ...