Devin Overton News Today

Out of the hundreds of photos he posted on his social media accounts — craggy thirteeners and fourteeners, a splitboard perched above untouched, hip-deep powder, a speck of a man in the middle of a how-the-heck-is-he-doing-that plunge down the face of a mountain — this one was different.

The Ouray County Plaindealer took home 19 awards last weekend from the four-state Top of the Rockies journalism contest, including five first-place prizes and an award for public service. The Plaindealer won the top number of awards among small newsrooms in a four-state region.

The Colorado Avalanche Information Center has released its final report about an avalanche southwest of Ophir that killed a solo backcountry snowboarder March 17. Devin Overton, 29, of Telluride, died...

A beloved Steamboat Springs local was killed Saturday in an avalanche in the Fish Creek drainage northeast of town. Drew Hyde, 49, was skiing with a friend above the North Fork of Fish Creek on a heav...

A man was snowboarding in Colorados San Juan Mountains when he was buried and killed by an avalanche on Thursday.

A western Colorado snowboarder has died after being caught in an avalanche south of Telluride.

A western Colorado snowboarder has died after being caught in an avalanche south of Telluride.

A 29-year-old Telluride man died in an avalanche in the Poverty Gulch area Thursday, according to the San Miguel County Sheriff's Office.

The avalanche was spotted by a local heli-ski outfitter who located the victim, Devin Overton, with an aerial beacon search, said the San Miguel County Sheriff.

A 29-year-old Telluride man died in an avalanche in the Poverty Gulch area Thursday, according to the San Miguel County Sheriff's Office.