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The Yampa Valley Housing Authority has approved a memorandum of understanding with a developer for the Mid Valley housing project, which is expected to add 200 units in Steamboat Springs.

This week, Nancy Stahoviak’s friends and colleagues are remembering her as a community-minded politician who set an example for what a public servant should be.

Dakotah McGinlay sat on the edge of her seat Tuesday night as she watched election return updates on the District 3 Steamboat Springs City Council race.

The Mountain Urban Renewal Authority and the money it diverts from the Steamboat Springs School District has been discussed in the race for Steamboat Springs Board of Education.

/ Tubers float the Yampa River through downtown Steamboat Springs on July 1. Thousands of tourists travel to this mountain town each year to visit the river. At Backdoor Sports on Yampa Street, dozens of people from Wisconsin, Kentucky and Illinois were lining up this month to rent river tubes days before the waterway closed because of drought conditions. Peter Van De Carr started the business 35 years ago with 10 tubes and a single limousine to ferry people back up the river when they were don...

Capitol Coverage Tubers float the Yampa River through downtown Steamboat Springs on July 1. Thousands of tourists travel to this mountain town each year to visit the river. After a year of coronavirus restrictions and cancelled travel plans, tourists have been flocking by the thousands to Steamboat Springs to cool off in the Yampa River. At Backdoor Sports on Yampa Street, dozens of people from Wisconsin, Kentucky and Illinois were lining up this month to rent river tubes days before the wate...

In a 4-3 vote, Steamboat Springs City Council voted Tuesday to implement the bicycle safety stop, which would allow bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs and stop lights as stop signs when there are no cars in an intersection. The idea was first presented to council by Routt County Riders and Bicycle Colorado in January. The two groups presented data from the state of Idaho and other Colorado communities that have implemented the law and seen decreases in crashes between cars and bicycl...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — After a lengthy discussion Tuesday night, four members of the Steamboat Springs City Council directed City Attorney Dan Foote to explore making Steamboat the first city in Colorado to tax timeshares. Council member Sonja Macys was absent from the meeting, and President Jason Lacy and member Robin Crossan recused themselves from the discussion due to conflicts of interest. Tuesday was the first time the council discussed the timeshare tax, which would be assessed when a tim...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Steamboat Springs City Council will move forward on discussions about putting a property tax on the 2021 ballot, but council members were less enthusiastic about its potential during a Tuesday night work session than they have been in the past, with one member dropping support for the move altogether. “We are not looking at the full picture of what this is going to do to our community members and if something like this would pass,” said council member Heather Sloop, wh...

The future of Save Our Season is in limbo. Graphic by Bryce Martin. While the group is comprised of volunteers, Sarah Bradford, owner of Steamboat Lodging Co. and co-founder of SOS, told council the organization needs the funding to pay for Facebook ads and create more graphics, the group’s primary mode of messaging. “We can’t afford to not do more than what we’re already doing,” SOS co-founder Robin Craigen said in an interview Tuesday. “Without help from the city, millions of doll...