Fifty years after Hunter S. Thompson’s campaign for Pitkin County sheriff, the late journalist’s influence on Aspen’s cultural and political landscape lives on, while his platform is in many ways ...

Officials with the U.S. Forest Service and partner groups were pleased with the effectiveness of a prescribed fire that covered about 825 acres in the Hunter Creek Valley on Friday. After ground crews ...

The story of Hunter S. Thompson’s watershed 1970 campaign to become Pitkin County’s top cop is retold in the new Aspen Historical Society exhibition “Freak Power: Hunter Thompson’s Campaign for ...

ASPEN, Colo. – Hunter S. Thompson, legendary author, political commentator and “gonzo” journalist, died Sunday night after shooting himself in the head with a handgun at his home in Woody Creek. He ...

A new Colorado museum is being planned to salute the life and legacy of noted “gonzo” journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson. The best-selling writer’s widow, Anita Thompson, told The Cannabist she ...

Aspen’s long-taken-for-granted backyard of Hunter Creek — once slated as an alternate road route to Leadville in the 1880s — attracted a group of five prospectors in late fall of 1879. Those ’79ers, ...