The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. In April 1851, Hispanos from Taos, New Mexico, established a settlement called San Luis on the banks of ...

KUSA - On April 9, 1851, Hispano farmers established the town of San Luis, Colorado. Today, the 164-year-old town is the state's oldest continuously occupied town. Located in south central Colorado ...

SAN LUIS — The fence stands 8 feet tall and slices across miles of the sagebrush sea of the San Luis Valley, dividing hillsides from creeks, creeks from wildlife. Frank Vigil stepped out of his truck ...

The R&R Market on Main Street in San Luis, Colorado, has been open since 1857. The current building, seen here, has stood since the late 1940s. The latest rundown of the five most imperiled historic ...

East of the little town of San Luis in southern Colorado, the sage fields suddenly give way to a steep, creek-fed canyon topped by beaver ponds and meadows near 10,000 feet, overlooking the Sangre de ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... They came from the Bay Area, Boulder, Nashville, Tenn., and Denver. They bought old homes, found new communities and then got to work creating. Listening ...

Devin Mestas, a senior at Centennial K-12 in San Luis, Colorado, works in a classroom on Tuesday, May 12, 2015. She plans to attend college in Trinidad. Devin Mestas, a high school senior from San ...

Reporting from FORT GARLAND, Colo. — Shortly after dawn, I pulled into this tiny town and studied a mural on the side of the post office. It was more than a painting; it was an illustrated map of Los ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MONTE VISTA — Faced with challenges to their traditional agricultural lifestyle, the Amish are adapting to vastly different economic opportunities in their ...