The private prison giant Geo Group has signed a multiyear contract with the Trump administration to reopen a shuttered prison in Hudson, Colorado, and turn it into an immigrant detention center.
The Green Ridge and Fishhook fires join four wildfires actively burning across Colorado: the Aspen Acres, Gold Mountain, Ferris and Willow fires.
So far in 2026, fires have consumed more than 260,000 acres in Colorado, or 344 square miles. That’s bigger than all Colorado’s wildfires between 2021 and 2024 combined.
Colorado’s four active wildfires — the Aspen Acres fire, Gold Mountain fire, Ferris fire and Willow fire — have consumed an estimated 203,923 acres.
A boating accident in Chatfield State Park sent one person to the hospital on Saturday, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
Kenneth Flowe, an organizer, said he expects the Boulder County NAACP branch to be revived within the coming weeks.
The Aspen Acres fire has destroyed more than 850 structures — including at least 337 houses — southwest of Pueblo, authorities announced Friday, as the scope of the devastation from the nearly 100,000-acre wildfire came into sharper focus.
A third of the volunteer Beulah Fire Department lost their homes to the Aspen Acres fire in Pueblo County.
A young red-tailed hawk was rescued after it was hit by a vehicle near Niwot Road and Colorado 119 in Boulder County.
Colorado officials allowed some of the thousands of people displaced by four major wildfires to return home this week, with more evacuation orders expected to be lifted on Friday.