Crested Butte News

01/05/2026

billy barr featured in the most recent 5280...

Billy Barr has braved the fourth season deep in the Rocky Mountains for more than 50 years, amassing tons of climate data. What happens when his watch ends?

01/03/2026

01/01/2026

Taking a look back at our front page photos from this past year

12/31/2025

This week’s editorial…

Notice more New York accents than usual this past week? New Yorkers love Telluride. Forbes Magazine

12/31/2025

Thank you to everyone featured in our CB News Profiles this past year for sharing your story with our community. A big thank you to Dawne Belloise for her heartfelt storytelling and Robby Lloyd for capturing each Profile so beautifully.

12/31/2025

Meet our Profile, Meg Smith.

By Dawne Belloise As a two-term president of the Adaptive Sports Center board, Meg Smith shares that

12/31/2025

It was just a matter of time and worth the wait.

For years the annual alumni hockey game pitted the current Crested Butte Titans high school team against a plethora of alumni players from both the old Wolfpack and Titans teams.

“If we win, you better put it on the front page” By Than Acuff It was just a matter of time and wort

12/31/2025

During a work session for the Lower Verzuh major impact development proposal on December 18, Gunnison County Planning Commission members openly grappled with the complexities and trade-offs of housing development in the absence of a north valley corridor plan.

Weighing affordable housing needs and development tradeoffs By Katherine Nettles During a work sessi

12/28/2025

It’s the last day to vote for your favorites in the Best of the Butte!

https://survey.zohopublic.com/zs/RqDFTV

12/28/2025

12/27/2025

The Gunnison County Sustainable Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (STOR) Committee was awarded a $225,000 grant this month to help fund trail stewardship, wildlife crossing plans, reduce the impacts of recreation on agricultural operations and restore wet meadow habitat. The funding comes from Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) to be used in 2026.

Stewardship coordinator, wildlife crossing, agriculture gates and wet meadows work By Katherine Nett