Colorado wildfires: 12 injuries reported in Willow fire burning near Leadville; Aspen Acres fire grows to 100,200 acres
Growth has slowed on many wildfires burning across Colorado, but crews are still working to secure the fires’ perimeters.
Growth has slowed on many wildfires burning across Colorado, but crews are still working to secure the fires’ perimeters.
The proclamation comes almost exactly 20 years after “No Cruising” signs were installed around Longmont following the city’s 2006 ordinance prohibiting drivers from passing the same traffic control point more than three times in the same direction within three hours.
A beef processing plant in Fort Morgan that employs more than 20% of the town’s population has remained largely dark since Cargill halted production in April, then locked out its unionized workforce in May amid contentious contract negotiations.
A Nicaraguan man arrested in Dillon, Colorado, died by suicide in a Mississippi immigration detention center last year, part of a surge in detainee deaths under the Trump administration.
Martin Faith, founder of Scottish Stained Glass, named Colorado’s Small Business Person of the Year for his company that specializes in restoring historic stained glass windows.
In Colorado, more than $375 million in grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were either terminated and reinstated through legal levers, or axed altogether — in the first 18 months of the Trump administration, according to Grant Witness.
111 people were killed when United Airlines Flight 232, a DC-10 that sustained a tail engine failure and the loss of hydraulic systems, crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa; 185 other people survived.
One person was killed in a shooting in Denver’s Globeville neighborhood early Saturday, police officials said.
The Denver Summit FC defeated the Portland Thorns FC 2-1 at their temporary new stadium, Centennial Stadium, on Saturday, July 18, 2026.
Colorado’s largest active wildfire has burned more than 100,000 acres as crews managed to contain more than half of the fire line as of Saturday morning.