Locals and visitors join together for live music, local venders, food trucks, car shows, eating contests and more.

On Colorado’s Western Slope, a headless chicken from the 1940s is still a beloved figure celebrated each spring.

The City of Fruita is hosting the 25th Annual Mike the Headless Chicken Festival starting Friday at the Civic Center Park in ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with McKenzie Kimball, director of a very quirky tradition in Fruita, CO - the "Mike the Headless Chicken Festival." A chicken named Mike ran around for 18 months with its ...

He threw it in the wagon, took the chicken in with him and started betting people beer or something that he had a live headless chicken." Word spread around Fruita about the miraculous headless bird.

This is a genuine photograph of Mike the Headless Chicken (aka Miracle Mike). While Miracle Mike truly survived after most of his head was cut off, it should be noted that part of Mike's brain was ...

FRUITA, Colo. (KJCT) - The festival honoring beloved local icon Mike the Headless Chicken is kicking off this week in downtown Fruita. As any local knows, that means street closures and crowded ...

Who wouldn't want to see a headless chicken? KIMBALL: It's pretty exciting, actually, because the story, like you said, happened back in 1945. And for a long time, it wasn't really, like ...