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On today's newscast: The Aspen Police Department has appointed two interim police chiefs, the director of the Pitkin County jail has resigned, the ski slopes were abuzz with Argentinian soccer fans after the country beat France in yesterday’s World Cup final, Aspen Film’s annual Academy screenings begin today, the largest annual meeting about drought and the Colorado River wrapped up Friday, the Whitebark Pine has been listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, and more.

BILLINGS, Mont. — Whitebark pine trees can live more than 1,000 years, but in just two decades more than a quarter of the trees that are a key food source

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has found significant threats that will challenge the tree found throughout the West, including in Montana.

Miners were digging their way by the shovelful through a rocky mountain, hoping to make their big strike along "The Great Silver Belt," but that big strike never happened. As I hiked in their footsteps, it almost felt like they could be returning any day now. Mining equipment is strewn near the tunnel opening and

CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK – Douglas Emhoff, America’s second gentleman, made his first visit to Crater Lake National Park Thursday and came away impressed. “I woke up in (Washington) D.C., and here I ...