The Editors of 5280 - Mile High Stories: 25 Years of Our Best Writing

No matter how winding and cold the trail, Randy Hansen pursued justice for Aaron Thompson.

Coloradan Randy Bilyeu thought hed located Forrest Fenns infamous hidden treasure. Then he went missing. We go inside the hunt for Fenns richesand the search for the man who vanished looking for them.

For more than three decades photographer John Fielder has focused his lens on the outdoors. Now, the Colorado icon is beginning to recognize the value of getting people in the frame.

When a young writer reached out to Kent Haruf, Colorados most celebrated novelist generously offered his timedespite having recently learned he had a fatal illness. In his final months, the author spoke with Chris Outcalt about reading, writing, and the meaning of life.

Stigma, silence, and fear have long dominated the issue of suicide. None of these will help reduce Colorados tragically high rate. But as I learned by working through my own familys tragedy, the voices of those who have survived just might.

Julian Scadden has made it his mission to ensure that no Denver veteran dies alone.

My whole life, I just assumed I was clumsy. Then I discovered the truth.

Giselle Gutierrez-Ruiz has spent nearly two decades locked up in a Colorado prison. Three and a half years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that his sentence is unconstitutional. Why hasnt his case been given a second look?

Two years ago, Najibullah Zazi left his Aurora apartment for New York with plans to blow up part of the citys subway system. Thanks to old-fashioned detective work, 21st-century counterterrorism techniquesand a bit of luckfederal, Colorado, and Denver officials were able to disrupt one of Al Qaedas most terrifying plots since 9/11.

By filming my fathers death, I hoped to bring our troubled relationship into focus.

In the early morning hours of New Years Day 2012, Tom Fallis wife shot herself in front of him. Nearly three years later, a Weld County grand jury indicted him for her murder. Then, in March 2016, a jury of his peers found Fallis not guiltyand wondered why a case of suicide had turned into a murder trial. This is how.

Welcome to Coloradoone of only seven states in the country where district attorneys can unilaterally decide when to criminally prosecute kids as adults.

We love our Rockies, but hot-hitting Andres Galarraga is the teams first player to truly earn our devotion.

After a childhood beset by adversity, the author fled the Texas Bible Belt to heal in the isolated mountains of Colorado. Through it all, she was discovering who she wasas a daughter, a woman, a partner, and a mother. One womans journey to faith and family.

They are Americas Cold War veterans, who forged weapons from a fearsome energy source and bravely endured years of radiation for a country that pledged to take care of them. Instead, government loopholes and evasions are making sure those promises are never kept.

Is he a rapist or a pawn in a military game to discredit the Air Force Academy sex scandal? For the first time, Douglas Meester answers the charges.

The controversial businessman is building an Old West town near Paonia thats a full-scale reproduction of a 19th-century settlement. But is the town simply the project of an eccentric billionaire, or is there more to the story? 5280 got an exclusive look at the controversial projectand spoke with the man behind the classic Western dustup.

In the fall of 2000, Denvers Lisa and Jack Nash genetically engineered a baby in an effort to save their dying little girl. Pastors and pundits said it was the first step down a stem-cell-paved road to Hell. Five years later, the Nashes give us an exclusive look at Heaven.

Meet Troy Lowrie. Family man. Philanthropist. And king of Colorado strip clubs.

Frank DeAngelis has been in charge of Columbine High School since the mass shooting there nearly 15 years ago. Thats about to change.