Web Exclusive: Of Canines and Convicts Slideshow
At the Territorial Correctional Facility in Cañon City, convicts learn responsibility through a dog-training program. Watch the hardened criminals deftly instruct, discipline, and care for their dogs.
At the Territorial Correctional Facility in Cañon City, convicts learn responsibility through a dog-training program. Watch the hardened criminals deftly instruct, discipline, and care for their dogs.
A one-woman army and a handful of unwanted dogs may be the best hope of rehabilitation for Colorado’s ever-growing prison population.
In an exclusive preview from our March issue, meet a local family that is raising a little girl born in the wrong body.
Read about CU’s “solar decathlon” experience and find additional resources that will help you green up your home.
What Denverites really need to know about their homes’ eco-problems, plus 52 doable, practical, local solutions for an environmentally friendly dwelling.
Last year, a tornado decimated a small Colorado town and one unfortunate family. Now the residents of Holly are slowly rebuilding their homes and lives the only way they know how—by looking ahead instead of revisiting the past.
Returning locals bring the old-fashioned film experience back to Denver.
Scores of Denverites have opened their lives to an autistic man named Gilbert Carpinelli with the hope of helping him out.
Here on the Front Range, the conventional wisdom is that the couple that plays together stays together. But is it true?
Despite increasing public pressure to ban the practice, thousands of Colorado’s horses will end their lives not out to pasture but on foreign dinner plates. Unless some determined rescuers—and their unlikely allies—can save them.
Michael Karolchyk has built his unorthodox fitness brand by offending nearly everyone. He calls himself the health conscience of America, but is he really trying to help you, or is he more interested in helping himself?
In many ways, Cherry Creek North represents the best of Denver. So why are the neighborhood’s leaders so consumed with making it even better?
One Hilltop couple proves that, sometimes, all your home needs is a little face-lift.
Colorado is the 16th-wealthiest state in the nation. So why are so many of our neighbors still having trouble putting food on the table?
What is Colorado style? Surely not the antler-heavy, Lincoln-log and wagon-wheel clichés they use up at the mountain resorts. True Colorado style is more complex. Its influences a nod to our past (the bungalows, mining shacks, cowboys), and its innovation a nod to our urban sensibilities—a style we at 5280 refer to as rustic contemporary. And what better way to illustrate this than through products made right here in Colorado? From a forged-steel and saddle-leather chair to an alpaca-fleece throw pillow, we found 26 incredible designs for your home, all made by Colorado artisans. Plus, we introduce you to three interior designers defining what’s “next” in Mile-High style.
At his Colorado Springs-based mega-ministry, Focus on the Family, James Dobson has constructed a well-oiled, well-financed, high-tech political machine.(Part two of two)
As a young man, Hank Brown flew risky missions over the jungles of Vietnam. As a Republican U.S. Senator, he sided with Ralph Nader and tussled with Osama bin Laden. So now, in the twilight of his career, turning around the University of Colorado should be a cakewalk, right?
