5+ hour, 13+ min ago   (176+ words) Search and rescue crews are looking for survivors after a single-engine plane crashed in a remote area of the San Juan Mountains near Telluride on Thursday, the San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office said. Sheriff’s deputies, search crews, Telluride Fire and…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (683+ words) Coloradans’ share of the Colorado River will not change under the federal government’s new operating plans for at least the next two years. The U.S. Department of the Interior on Friday published a highly anticipated plan for the Colorado…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (146+ words) The Denver Post A 3-month-old baby died after an “incident” at a Colorado casino hotel on Saturday morning, Black Hawk police officials said. Gilpin County and Black Hawk police and fire crews responded to a hotel room at the Ameristar…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (261+ words) A helicopter unsuccessfully attempted to pick up five firefighters just before a fire overtook them, killing three of the firefighting crew and fatally injuring another on Colorado’s Western Slope, according to a preliminary report by federal investigators. The helicopter was…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (374+ words) Another firefighter caught in a wildfire on Colorado’s Western Slope last month has died from his injuries, bringing the death toll to four, federal officials announced Friday. Nathan Matthews, a 43-year-old wildland firefighter from Lincoln, Nebraska, died on Friday, nearly…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (870+ words) Colorado’s raging summer wildfires claimed a fourth firefighter over the weekend when a helicopter battling the Gold Mountain fire near Ouray crashed into a reservoir. The body of the pilot, the only person on board the firefighting helicopter, was recovered…...

2+ mon, 18+ hour ago   (711+ words) Colorado is burning and mourning the loss of three firefighters. Emily Barker, Nick Hutcherson and Sydney Watson were killed while trying to slow the Knowles fire as it raced toward Glade Park, an area full of cabins and homes outside…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (600+ words) While hundreds of firefighters battle the 16,000-acre Gold Mountain fire just two miles from Ouray, the mayor of the mountain town and several businesses there are touting its picture-perfect blue skies as the busy July 4 holiday weekend approaches. The fire,…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (136+ words) The three federal firefighters who died when overtaken by flames while battling a rapidly growing wildfire in western Colorado were identified Monday by the U.S. Forest Service. Forest Service officials identified the firefighters killed over the weekend as: All three were…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (999+ words) Three wildfires burning in western Colorado have consumed roughly 44,000 acres, killed three firefighters and injured two, according to the responding agencies. “Critical fire weather conditions” forecast each day this week could spur the wildfires’ growth across the state’s Western Slope…...