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Down eight sworn patrol officers, the Steamboat Springs Police Department is on the verge of a staffing crisis, according to Police Chief Sherry Burlingame.

In the 1990s, a group known as the Yampa Valley Trail Alliance envisioned a trail that would extend along the Yampa River from its headwaters in the Flat Tops Mountains to near the Utah border…

As Steamboat Springs and West Routt County continue to grow, Steamboat Springs City Council has outlined a list of goals on which the city would like to collaborate with the county.

Steamboat Springs used to have an ordinance only allowing three unrelated people to live together in a single-family unit and five in a multi-family unit. Rebecca Bessey, Steamboat planning director, said the ordinance was originally implemented in the 1960s with the intent of “preserving neighborhood character” but has since contributed to Steamboat’s affordable housing crisis. “It’s not necessarily uncommon in community zoning codes, though there is a trend to move away from this,” Bessey said. “This would increase opportunities for housing in our community.” In an effort to...