As Colorado marks its 149th birthday Friday — and the nation nears its 250th — Susan Schulten steps into the role of State Historian. A longtime professor at the University of Denver and author of “A ...

The man who died when a Colorado gold mine elevator malfunctioned this week has been identified as a tour guide — while one of the visitors who was trapped underground for hours said the group never ...

A tour guide was the lone death after an elevator malfunction inside a former Colorado gold mine turned popular tourist attraction trapped 23 people as far as 1,000 feet underground, authorities said ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Tributes poured Friday in for Patrick Weier, one of the men behind Billy Cub—the former unofficial Cubs mascot who posed for photos for years with fans outside Wrigley Field. Weier, ...

Patrick Weier, who died on Oct. 10, 2024, in an accident gives a tour of the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek, Colo.. (Jennifer Nolan via AP) (Jennifer Nolan) DENVER – A former Colorado gold ...

DENVER (AP) — A tour guide killed at a former Colorado gold mine last year fell out of a crowded elevator taking tourists below ground after apparently not latching its door closed, documents obtained ...

Colorado faced many challenges in its early years of existence, and the earliest of those challenges neatly separated into two categories. The first involved defining Colorado as a place; the second ...

An incident involving an elevator at a former Colorado gold mine that led to the death of a tour guide and trapped a group of tourists for hours last year was caused by “operator error,” authorities ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — It turns out the pioneers ...

DENVER (AP) — A former Colorado gold mine where a tour guide was killed and a group of tourists was trapped for hours after an elevator accident has been ordered to remain closed and not conduct tours ...