RealVail.com

RealVail.com is a digital news platform that focuses on politics, the environment, business, opinions, and outdoor lifestyles. It provides an independent perspective on the happenings and individuals influencing the Vail Valley, Colorado, and the Rocky Mountain area. Founded in 2007 by experienced journalist David O. Williams, who is based in Vail, the site underwent a relaunch in 2013 along with its sister site, RockyMountainPost.com.

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Neguse, Bennet call for halt to BLM emergency rule aimed at increasing Utah oil-train traffic

4 days ago | realvail.com | David O. Williams

A Trump administration scheme to jam through a big increase in Utah oil trains traveling along tracks in the narrow canyons of the upper Colorado River was met with a strong statement of condemnation by Colorado U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse and Sen. Michael Bennet on Monday.
The O. Zone: Trump's long list of broken campaign promises just jumped to yet another forever war

4 days ago | realvail.com | David O. Williams

I agree wholeheartedly with President Donald Trump. At least the version of Trump from the 2024 presidential campaign who said a vote for him was a vote to “turn the page forever on those foolish, stupid days of never-ending wars.
The O. Zone: Coming to Vail this summer? Leave fireworks, risky fire behavior at home

1 week ago | realvail.com | David O. Williams

The Red Canyon Fire near Wolcott on Wednesday (Eagle Valley Wildland Facebook photo). If you’re signed up for Eagle County emergency alerts (and if you’re not, please stop reading right now and do it), you’ve been getting pinged with texts lately saying, “There is a Red Flag Warning for Eagle County. Fire restrictions will apply.”I reached out the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office a while back to see what that actually means.
Opinion: Could Colorado be next in line for Trump's troop deployments?

1 week ago | realvail.com | David O. Williams

Poncho Espino, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, speaks to the crowd during an anti-ICE protest at the Colorado Capitol on Tuesday, June 10 (Quentin Young/Colorado Newsline). The threat that the Trump administration would illegally deploy military forces in Colorado to advance its authoritarian agenda has loomed over the state for months.
Coloradans blast plan by Utah's Lee to sell more than 2 million acres of public lands

1 week ago | realvail.com | Delilah Brumer

U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse talks to emergency responders and public lands managers in Vail in 2023 (David O. Williams photo). Democratic members of the Colorado congressional delegation criticized a recent proposal by U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, to allow the federal government to sell off more than 2 million acres of public land. The proposal covers 11 Western states, including Colorado.
Utah residents blast plan to pay for oil trains with federal tax-exempt bonds

1 week ago | realvail.com | Kyle Dunphey

The group pushing for a rail line in eastern Utah that would allow the state to ramp up oil production is hoping to fund the project through $2.4 billion in U.S. Department of Transportation bonds. The Seven County Infrastructure Coalition for years has been lobbying for the 88-mile Uinta Basin Railway, which would connect the oil-rich region of northeastern Utah to national rail lines, facilitating the export through Colorado of waxy crude oil to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
The O. Zone: Hurd has to do much more than the bare minimum, Matt

1 week ago | realvail.com | David O. Williams

Eagle County Commissioner Matt Scherr Saturday at No Kings rally in Edwards (David O. Williams photo). Thanks to President Donald Trump’s campaign of mass deportations, America has become a police state where it’s difficult if not impossible to tell who the police are and why they’re arresting our friends and neighbors. That sense of fear was palpable Saturday at the “No Kings” rally in Edwards, where it was tough to find people of color willing to speak out.
Hundreds converge on Freedom Park to oppose Trump, declare 'No Kings'

1 week ago | realvail.com | David O. Williams

Former U.S. Army officer Paula Clements addresses the No Kings rally in Freedom Park in Edwards on Saturday. EDWARDS, Colo. — About 350 people gathered at Freedom Park in Edwards Saturday morning as part of the nationwide “No Kings” protests against the presidency of Donald Trump, who is participating in a massive, expensive and unprecedented peacetime military parade in Washington, D.C. to celebrate the 250th birthday of the U.S. Army.
Hurd hammered from left, right for OBBB vote, opposing J6 pardons by Trump

2 weeks ago | realvail.com | David O. Williams

Alex Kelloff courtesy photo. Democrats say freshman Republican Congressman Jeff Hurd, a Grand Junction lawyer, is now caught between a rock and hard-right place after his vote in favor of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the recent emergence of a MAGA primary challenger in 2026. “Jeff Hurd cast the deciding vote on a bill that guts Medicaid, directly harming thousands of people in our district,” Democratic 3rd Congressional District challenger Alex Kelloff wrote in an email.
Northwest Colorado explores nuclear waste storage with rail connectivity

2 weeks ago | realvail.com | David O. Williams

An Atlas nuclear waste railcar (U.S. Department of Energy photo). Colorado has a long, dark history of failed and still highly toxic nuclear energy and weapons projects around the state, but the demand for carbon-free energy to combat climate change and fuel the booming tech sector has launched a bipartisan push for a nuclear energy renaissance.