Photo Essays
Gay Couples Celebrate Civil Unions in Colorado
Hundreds of gay and lesbian Coloradans gained legal recognition for their relationships early Wednesday morning as the state’s civil union law went into effect. ...
Raid on a Polygamist Town: Arizona, 1953
Just before dawn on July 26, 1953, Arizona law enforcement launched what has since become known as the Short Creek raid: the arrest of men and women in an...
PHOTOS: Bulletproof Fashion — for Kids
Less than a month after 20 children and six adults were killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Miguel Caballero, designer of...
Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week’s Toll
In June 1969, LIFE magazine published a feature that today, incredibly, remains as moving and, in some quarters, as controversial as it was when it sparked...
Inside Colorado's Marijuana Industry
One of 15 states that allows some form of medical marijuana, Colorado has seen a burst of business activity around the sale and distribution of grass...
Colorado Wildfires
Raging fires in Colorado displace residents and approach Denver city limits
Photos: Snow Blankets Colorado
Over 6 ft. (1.8 m) of snow carpeted the Rocky Mountains and canceled at least 600 flights in Denver
Cold War Mountain
Life at NORAD's Colorado Bunker Hideaway Photographs for TIME by Matt Slaby
Cannabis Conventions
In California and Colorado, medical marijuana growers, consumers and enthusiasts come together to talk pot
Going Deep: LIFE at the Grand Canyon
A few years ago, public television in the United States aired a marvelous, six-episode Ken Burns documentary called The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. The...
Denver is Beer Country
Photographer David Bowman provides a visual tasting tour of Colorado's best microbreweries
Welcome to Prison Valley
Fremont County, Colorado, has made incarceration a local specialty industry Photographs by Philippe Brault / Agence Vu / Aurora
President Obama Goes West
The President visits Colorado, Montana and Arizona to discuss his health-care plan and drops in on Yellowstone National Park Photographs by Olivier Douliery...
An Army Town Copes with PTSD
Home to Fort Carson and many returning vets, Colorado Springs has endured a rash of murders committed by vets returning from the wars in Iraq and...
True Grit: Dust Bowl Survivors
For some, the phrase “Dust Bowl” conjures a place: the Great Plains, but a Great Plains of abandoned homes, ruined lives, dead and dying crops and sand, sand,...
