ASPEN, Colorado ” Aspen, Colorado officials are moving forward with plans to charge a fee to consumers who use paper and plastic bags at grocery stores. The Aspen City Council on Tuesday signed off on ...

Standing outside Aspen’s City Market grocery story on a recent Sunday, Tige Eads wants to talk about plastic bags. He has a good story. His wife was shopping at the store recently while employees were ...

ASPEN, Colorado ” The Aspen/Telluride Challenge, aimed at promoting reusable shopping bags, has been extended through Labor Day weekend. The program was previously scheduled to end on the Fourth of ...

A fee on consumers for all paper and plastic bags provided by Aspen grocery stores could become reality as soon as early summer, depending on whether the Aspen City Council embraces a proposed ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The city of Aspen has unveiled a proposed ordinance that seeks to charge grocery-store customers 20 cents for each plastic or paper bag used in sacking their ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ASPEN — — A Boulder-based taxpayer-advocacy group filed suit Tuesday against the city of Aspen, Mayor Mick Ireland and four councilmen over the grocery-store ...

Let the Aspen voters decide. That’s the thrust of a petition filed last week by the Colorado Union of Taxpayers Foundation, which is asking the state Supreme Court to make a final decision on the city ...

The city of Aspen’s five-year-old policy banning plastic bags at the grocery store while requiring a 20-cent fee for paper has resulted in 85 percent of Aspen grocery shoppers using something other ...