Aspen Journalism

Aspen Journalism is a nonprofit news organization located in Aspen, Colorado. Our goal is to create thorough and investigative journalism for individuals who have a connection to the Aspen area, whether they live, vote, own property, work, enjoy recreational activities, or visit.

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The Roundup | Changing outlooks on local aircraft, youth service, public lands and water

2 days ago | aspenjournalism.org | Curtis Wackerle

Happy off season and thanks for reading the Roundup — the best way to stay up to date on all of Aspen Journalism’s reporting.
Once in doubt, the E175 will fly to Aspen this summer

1 week ago | aspenjournalism.org | Laurine Lassalle

The Embraer 175 aircraft that made its debut at the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport (ASE) in early December is about to become the only aircraft that United will operate there this summer. That is an outcome that was previously doubted by some observers, but the aircraft has gone through extensive testing and upgrades to operate at ASE and overcome the airport’s challenging conditions. The final United Express CRJ700 flight from ASE is now scheduled for May 4 at 12:55 p.m. and will head to Chicago.
The Roundup | Decades of history catching up to the present

3 weeks ago | aspenjournalism.org | Curtis Wackerle

The two-part series on the history of the Aspen ski patrol unionization movement — unfolding over decades before the formation in 1986 of the Aspen Professional Ski Patrol Association, which remains the local patrol’s collective bargaining unit — was a reminder that the Aspen of today was forged through contentious battles of the past waged by a generation that believed in something.
Pitkin County pledges $1 million to Shoshone water rights purchase

3 weeks ago | aspenjournalism.org | Heather Sackett

Pitkin County on Wednesday joined 29 other Western Slope counties, cities and towns, irrigation districts and water providers in financially backing a plan to buy a critical Colorado River water right. Pitkin County commissioners unanimously approved a resolution supporting the Shoshone Permanency Project and pledging $1 million toward the campaign to keep the water rights associated with the Shoshone hydropower plant in Glenwood Canyon on the Western Slope.
Colorado River Basin states have just weeks left to agree on plan

3 weeks ago | aspenjournalism.org | Heather Sackett

During a tour of the Western Slope last week, U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., said he was frustrated with the pace of negotiations that could determine how the Colorado River is shared in the future and that the Upper Basin states may be pushing back too hard. A deal should have been reached last summer, he said. “Colorado should have a right to keep the water that we have been using the way we’ve been using it, and I don’t think we should compromise that,” Hickenlooper said.
APSPA: From corporate burr to community asset

3 weeks ago | aspenjournalism.org | Tim Cooney |Curtis Wackerle

In part two of the history of ski patrol unions (read part one here), a dramatic loss of benefits leads to the formation of the Aspen Professional Ski Patrol Association in 1986. As APSPA nears its 40th anniversary, the separate United Mountain Workers CWA local 7781 represents other ski patrols and mountain groups. To visitors and the community, the Aspen ski patrols could be the last stronghold of the inscrutable Aspen mystique.
‘Say a prayer that all this comes to a happy conclusion’

4 weeks ago | aspenjournalism.org | Kaya Williams |Curtis Wackerle

St. Benedict’s Monastery in Old Snowmass has been called a “sacred place in the sacred valley,” a “monastic Camelot,” and a “cathedral of nature” imbued with spiritual and environmental care. More than 3,700 acres encompass irrigated ranchland, a historic chapel and cloisters, a contemporary retreat center and an abundance of open space — shrubby hillsides, dense forests and sprawling fields, stewarded for nearly 70 years by monks with a deep respect for the natural world.
You fall, we haul

1 month ago | aspenjournalism.org | Tim Cooney |Curtis Wackerle

“When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion,” Ethiopian proverbIn the first of a two-part story, the history of ski patrol unions unfolds in Aspen between 1959-1986, leading to the Aspen Professional Ski Patrol Association. Next week’s second installment will follow APSPA’s perilous path through changing management groups to the present, their dramatic confrontations and the rise of the national United Mountain Workers CWA 7781 union.
North/south split for Western Slope snowpack and streamflow forecasts

1 month ago | aspenjournalism.org | Heather Sackett

It was a tale of two winters for the mountains containing the Colorado River’s headwaters, with the northern ranges seeing an above-average snowpack peak, while the southern half of the state lagged behind with below-normal snowpack. As the season came to a close, the snowpack for the Yampa/White/Little Snake River basin in the northwest corner of the state and the headwaters of the Colorado River mainstem both peaked around April 9 at 113% and 101% of normal, respectively.
Aspen Journalism receives seven awards in the four-state Top of the Rockies contest

1 month ago | aspenjournalism.org | Curtis Wackerle

Aspen Journalism was recognized with seven awards in the 2025 Top of the Rockies Excellence in Journalism competition organized by the Society of Professional Journalists Colorado Pro Chapter. Reporting from Heather Sackett, Laurine Lassalle and Paul Andersen added up to three first place, two second place and two third place awards.