Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LA JUNTA, Colo. — Love is in the air on the Colorado plains — the kind that makes your heart beat a bit faster, quickens your step and makes the hair on the ...

(LA JUNTA, Colo.) — The tarantula mating season has arrived in the Comanche National Grassland, home to Colorado brown tarantulas. La Junta’s third annual Tarantula Fest creeps up on Friday, Sept. 27, ...

Ask most people and they will tell you love can be risky business, but this time of year, one species has a monopoly on that risk: tarantulas. They are migrating through America’s plains by the ...

LA JUNTA, Colo. — Finding a mate is risky business this time of the year for the Colorado brown tarantulas that populate southeastern Colorado. In the late summer, thousands of male tarantulas scour ...

There’s a market for everything, tarantula tourism included. These creepy crawlers have become a sort of destination mascot for La Junta, a small town set about three hours southeast of Denver. From ...

South Metro Fire Rescue found an SUV on fire at an entrance to Cherry Creek State Park in Aurora on Thursday, but investigators have yet to learn how the fire started or who the vehicle belongs to.