Colorado’s bears are running short on the food they normally find in the mountains, and that is sending more of them into neighborhoods, businesses and backyards. The reason is simple: the wild buffet isn’t producing like it normally does. Drought has dried up grasses, while berries and other natural foods are scarce in parts of Colorado. Gambel oak trees, which normally provide bears with a valuable supply of acorns, are also producing a weak crop in some areas. That matters

There was a time when nobody thought it was strange to cook outside in August. Before central air conditioning became standard, families had a simple way to keep the house from becoming an oven: move the hot cooking outdoors. That old idea still makes a lot of sense. If you've ever spent an August afternoon boiling jars of tomatoes, making a big pot of beans, grilling supper, or baking something in the oven, you know what happens. The kitchen heats up, the air conditioner run