Colorado News

Patients flocked to Colorado in the early 1900s to treat their tuberculosis, as the fresh and dry air was thought to be a cure.

Colorado’s four most active wildfires — the Aspen Acres, Gold Mountain, Elk and Willow fires — have together consumed nearly 150,000 acres. Custer County residents previously allowed to return home were placed back under mandatory evacuation orders.

Colorado and Adams County public health officials have still not been given access to ICE’s Aurora immigration detention center to investigate a case of tuberculosis.

Both of Colorado’s IMAX 70mm projectors malfunctioned, leaving those trying to see “The Odyssey” on opening weekend frustrated and in the dark.

The Gold Mountain fire, one of several active wildfires, has consumed just over 38,000 acres — Colorado’s 19th largest wildfire on record.

Immigrants held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Aurora detention facility no longer receive original copies of mail sent to them, and senders are seeing months-long delays in returned letters making their way back, advocacy organization Casa de Paz says.

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 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.

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.