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BKFC is set to touch down in its 11th U.S. state – and some faces familiar to MMA fans are on the card.

ESTES PARK, Colo. — A bull elk with mesh fencing entangled in his antlers was tranquilized near a busy traffic intersection in Estes Park, where police and wildlife officers freed the beast of his burden.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. — At a high alpine lake here, researchers with clipboards and pens are conducting painstaking surveys that may be essential for saving butterflies and other insects from extinction.

TELLURIDE, Colo. — Frances McDormand, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley and other actors in the ensemble of Sarah Polley's extraordinary drama "Women Talking" were walking into the Werner Herzog Theatre for a post-screening Q&A on Sept. 4 just as a few members of the audience were leaving the venue. A friend…

Republican Joe O'Dea is pitching himself as independent-minded in his campaign against Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. But on the key issue of abortion, Democrats say he's out of step with the state.

Telluride, Colo. — To feed or not to feed, that is the film festivalgoer's ever-pressing question: whether 'tis wiser to blow off a screening and seek out some much-needed sustenance (or a drink, or a nap), or to just power through and hope that sheer cinephile adrenaline will be fuel…

TELLURIDE, Colo. — The Telluride Film Festival has long cherished its image as an oasis for movie lovers, tucked away in a remote Colorado box canyon, free from the cares of the world.

TELLURIDE, Colo. — Everything about Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's new film is on a big scale. The themes and ideas — involving identity, Mexican history, race, success, family and mortality — are big. The level of cinematic ambition is big. Even the complete title — "Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful…

TELLURIDE, Colo. — The Telluride Film Festival provides an annual opportunity to view auteurs in their natural habitat, a "mountain of cinema," in the words of the event's foot soldiers, an event that courts cineastes, forbids selfies and offers a potent bloody mary at its spectacular mountainside opening day brunch.

TELLURIDE, Colo. — When Cate Blanchett took the stage Saturday evening for her Telluride Film Festival tribute, right after a screening of her astonishing new movie, "Tar," the audience must have enjoyed a bit of a chuckle. Most audiences that get a post-screening Q&A with Blanchett — and there will…

Telluride, Colo. — Maybe chalk it up to the altitude sickness, but I’m having trouble imagining a more whiplash-inducing double bill than Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking” and Alejandro G. Inarritu’s “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” two of the first movies to screen at this year’s Telluride Film…