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.
The Aspen Acres fire in Pueblo and Custer counties held steady overnight and remained less than half-contained as of Friday morning, fire officials said.
A new lawsuit filed Wednesday in Pueblo County alleges that the San Isabel Electric Association’s equipment was “a substantial factor” in starting and fueling the Aspen Acres fire in southern Colorado.
Mandatory evacuations remain in effect for the Aspen Acres, Gold Mountain, Elk and Willow fires burning in Colorado.
Together, the Fishhook, Green Ridge, Aspen Acres, Gold Mountain, Ferris and Willow fires have consumed nearly 208,000 acres, or 325 square miles, in Colorado.
A man died when an inflatable raft overturned in Cherry Creek State Park, dumping three people into the reservoir, investigators said.
Pat Oliphant, an influential former Denver Post political cartoonist known for creating caricatures of U.S. and world leaders, died Monday. He was 90.
Health officials in Adams County, Colorado, are investigating an active tuberculosis case at the Aurora immigration detention center run by ICE and the private prison giant Geo Group.