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.
The astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II crew will take the stage at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Aug. 3 to talk all things space.
More evacuations were lifted for the Aspen Acres fire burning in southern Colorado on Tuesday, allowing residents to return home after weeks of uncertainty.
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.