Five wildfires continued to burn across Colorado on Thursday as state leaders braced for weather that could create extreme fire behavior over the Fourth of July weekend.
A federal appeals court in Denver has ruled the Trump administration must provide bond hearings for many of ICE’s immigrant detainees who were arrested inside the United States.
A 63-year-old man reported missing last month was found dead in Denver, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office.
Five wildfires burning in Colorado together had scorched nearly 125,000 acres — 194 square miles — as of Thursday morning. Here are the latest updates.
The Aspen Acres fire burning in Pueblo and Custer counties nearly doubled in size to 47,953 acres — roughly 75 square miles — on Wednesday, becoming the state’s largest wildfire and the No. 1 firefighting priority in the nation, according to emergency managers.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis ordered flags to fly at half-staff on Thursday in honor of a Fort Carson soldier who died in a training accident in Iraq.
Crews fighting the Snyder fire, which killed three firefighters on Colorado’s Western Slope, have gained the first bit of containment on the blaze.
Lightning struck a golf course near Lakewood on Tuesday, sparking a fire and sending one person to the hospital, according to West Metro Fire Rescue.
Aspen Acres, Ferris, Gold Mountain, Snyder and Willow fires still burning, forcing more evacuations and destroying at least 100 buildings.
Ever since she became a volunteer firefighter in college, Emily Barker thrived in the male-dominated world of wildland firefighting. She traveled across the country with her federal fire crew, hiking into burning forests, buzzing over smoke plumes in a helicopter and sleeping in dirt foxholes.