
Thanks for picking up a copy of The Colorado Sun’s Year in Review print magazine! Here are links to the stories in this year’s edition:
- The Colorado Sun’s Annual Report & Letter from Editor Larry Ryckman
- This Colorado ranch-made-lab is turning beetle-kill trees into lumber in the name of forest health by Jason Blevins
- After long regarding the South Platte as not much more than a sewer, is metro Denver ready to love its river? by Kevin Simpson
- A fungus threatens survival of the only toads that live high in the Rocky Mountains by Jennifer Brown
- The fierce fight over an artesian spring in southern Colorado provides a glimpse of coming water wars by John Ingold
- Finding family in the folds: Learning the art of wonton connects Coloradans across cultures by Tamara Chuang
- The opioid crisis is breaking hearts in Colorado — and that’s forcing doctors to make tough choices by Jesse Paul
- Why a computer maker moved manufacturing to Denver, despite ongoing trade war with China by Tamara Chuang
- Grand Junction used to be a place young people fled. Now, millennial entrepreneurs are flocking there for opportunity. by Nancy Lofholm
- A new state lawmaker’s first session is over. And she got an earful about it at a town hall meeting. by John Frank
- How does a rural Colorado county with three people per square mile send 30 students to an Ivy League institution? by Kevin Simpson
- Teachers living in campers: How rural Colorado districts are coping with growing teacher shortage by Christopher Osher
Stories featured in our photo spread

- Acres of destruction left by Colorado’s historic avalanche season are also delivering climate change evidence
- These cutthroat trout survived in only one Colorado creek, until it was choked out by wildfire ash
- The night she looks forward to all year: Prom, and belonging, at a Colorado camp for teens with disabilities
- Women’s tackle football involves more guts than glory, and the championships are headed to Colorado
- Colorado’s oldest drive-in theater: 70 years of watching the stars, under the stars at The Star in Montrose
- Colorado’s hot summer of dry ditches and empty reservoirs has left distressed farmers sweating: Will it get worse?
- Coloradans generate 9.6 pounds of trash per person, per day. Where does it all go?