Colorado Sees Big Spike In Demand For Annual Fishing Licenses
According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, more than 208,000 Coloradans purchased an annual fishing license for 2020. That's almost 70,000 more than in 2019!
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According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, more than 208,000 Coloradans purchased an annual fishing license for 2020. That's almost 70,000 more than in 2019!
CPW shared a time-lapse video of the healthy young bears hanging out around the den after emerging from hibernation.
An orphaned pronghorn is recovering well at the Wet Mountain Wildlife Rehab Center.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife relocated a young bear found in Fort Collins.
"Because elk, deer, moose and other wild animals are currently rearing their newborn offspring, it increases the possibility of a serious wildlife encounter," CPW officials warned.
Be extra cautious what you leave outside -- an elk ended up with a tire stuck around its neck.
A pronghorn doe hit by a car in Colorado Springs gave birth to a fawn that survived -- thanks, in part, to a couple that witnessed the incident.
It's the video of a 150-pound male black bear making himself at home in a human's home Sunday morning in northwest Colorado Springs. And in this case, it's the animal's final moments.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife is seeing an increase in the number of potential wolf sightings in the state.
Do you think he got there and wondered where all the other big cats were?
Wildlife officials released the fingerlings into Middle Boulder Creek earlier this week in Nederland.
"Imagine this bear a year from now when it weighs 200 pounds & can easily break into your home," wildlife officials stated.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife posted a video to social media on Sunday of two officers destroying a convicted poacher's weapons.
It happened Thursday when the boy and his father were playing in their backyard.
The CPW office in Colorado Springs is giving away 300 rods and reels on Friday, for kids who don't have them!
CPW wasn't able to spawn many walleye this year but they were able to get enough from North Dakota to fully stock Chatfield Reservoir, Cherry Creek Reservoir and Lake Pueblo State Park.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife rangers and off-duty employees worked together to put out a fire on an island in Horseshoe Lake earlier this week.
The elk was sedated, to allow rescuers to pull it from the hole, which CPW described as 30-feet deep.
Officers say a bighorn sheep was illegally killed Wednesday afternoon near Collbran in Mesa County.
Not only is Colorado Parks and Wildlife asking visitors to stay away from each other, officials are also asking people to stay away from young wildlife.
Have you been noticing more wildlife? Many of us are spending more time outside now than ever before.
It's that time of year -- bears are waking up from hibernation and starting to search for food.
A local woman was rushed to the hospital Saturday evening after a moose stomped her in a Peak Seven neighborhood.
As Colorado State Parks remain open, access to offices, service and visitor centers is restricted as coronavirus cases increase in Colorado.
Aquatic biologist and volunteers are teaming up to fight back against whirling disease in our Colorado rivers and streams.
Colorado will be blasted with the threat of fire and ice this week as a major Winter storm takes aim on the Rockies.
The Aspen Fire Department now has a new drone strike team to help combat wildfires.
Police are searching for the person responsible for a hit-and-run that killed a toddler in the Town of Erie.
A Colorado woman will serve 40 years in prison for attempting to murder her ex-boyfriend, shooting him multiple times.
NWS Boulder said temperatures at Denver International Airport hit 68 degrees just before 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. The normal temperature for Feb. 15 is 45 degrees, and the previous heat record was 67 degrees in 2017.
Colorado will be blasted with the threat of fire and ice this week as a major Winter storm takes aim on the Rockies.
The Aspen Fire Department now has a new drone strike team to help combat wildfires.
Police are searching for the person responsible for a hit-and-run that killed a toddler in the Town of Erie.
A Colorado woman will serve 40 years in prison for attempting to murder her ex-boyfriend, shooting him multiple times.
NWS Boulder said temperatures at Denver International Airport hit 68 degrees just before 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. The normal temperature for Feb. 15 is 45 degrees, and the previous heat record was 67 degrees in 2017.
A group met at a town hall in Aurora on Sunday to discuss license plate readers and how artificial intelligence is being used with that technology.
Erie police are investigating three serious crashes this week, two of which were fatal. All three took place between Friday night and Sunday evening.
Conditions this week have prompted the City of Broomfield a level 2 fire ban, meaning no burning is allowed.
Multiple fire departments worked for hours to put out a fire that broke out in the community of Silver Plume on Sunday afternoon.
Watch Dave Aguilera talk about record heat and fire danger
Mikaela Shiffrin, who is the winningest athlete on the World Cup circuit, has now failed to win a medal in eight straight Olympic events since the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang.
The U.S. kept pace with also-unbeaten Canada for the top seed in the Olympic men's hockey tournament.
It is Jordan Stolz's second gold medal of the 2026 Winter Games, breaking a world record.
The U.S. women's curling team was surprised to learn that their defeat of Canada marked an Olympic first.
Kendall Coyne Schofield scored twice and top-seeded United States routed Olympic host Italy 6-0 in a lopsided, festive and sometimes chippy women's hockey quarterfinal at the Milan Cortina Games.
Mikaela Shiffrin, who is the winningest athlete on the World Cup circuit, has now failed to win a medal in eight straight Olympic events since the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang.
Casey Wasserman, the chair of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee, says he is selling his eponymous talent agency in the wake of the release of emails between himself and Ghislaine Maxwell.
The U.S. kept pace with also-unbeaten Canada for the top seed in the Olympic men's hockey tournament.
Tom Barrack, a top U.S. diplomat and longtime friend of President Trump, networked and socialized with Epstein for years, CBS News found.
It is Jordan Stolz's second gold medal of the 2026 Winter Games, breaking a world record.
Casey Wasserman, the chair of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee, says he is selling his eponymous talent agency in the wake of the release of emails between himself and Ghislaine Maxwell.
On Saturday, the office of Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced that the city is accepting bids for license plate reader services.
Tom Barrack, a top U.S. diplomat and longtime friend of President Trump, networked and socialized with Epstein for years, CBS News found.
It's the second time in as many weeks that government funding has lapsed as Democrats and the White House remain at an impasse over immigration enforcement policies.
Democratic state Sen. Dafna Michaelson Jenet is leaving the Colorado State Capitol to confront and combat antisemitism full-time.
The AdventHealth Transplant Institute at Porter is participating in a national voucher system that allows living donors to give a kidney now and help a loved one receive one later.
The University of Colorado Cancer Center at CU Anschutz has been selected by the National Cancer Institute as one of just eight hubs nationwide to evaluate new multi‑cancer detection blood tests, part of a national pilot called the Vanguard Study.
Lydia Howerton of Good Eaters showed how easy it is to bake her gluten-free zucchini brownies.
In Colorado, it's not yet clear exactly how much funding will be cut for public health services, but organizations like the Colorado Health Network are bracing for impact.
The Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna's application for a new flu vaccine made with mRNA technology, the company said.
Prediction markets are taking bets this Valentine's Day that celebrity relationships can thrive — or break apart.
As construction on the East Colfax Bus Rapid Transit project moves closer to Aurora, business owners and neighbors along the corridor say they are bracing for short-term disruption while holding onto hope for long-term revival.
Amazon's Ring unit touted a "search party" service in its Super Bowl ad, but one critic called the app a "surveillance nightmare."
Inflation came in below economists' forecasts and slowed from December's 2.7% annual rate.
A Denver bar called Mecca Sports Bar has been under investigation for prostitution for several years. It's coming to light now because the city's Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection requested a hearing for the bar about their liquor license and dance cabaret license. Both are in limbo.ore arrests have been made.
A Denver judge this week ordered an area pastor, Tilo Lopez, to pay a family $311,000 in restitution after Lopez was criminally prosecuted in connection with a construction project he said he would do for the family.
The filing comes months after a judge ordered the company to pay more than $116 million for its role in the 2021 death of 6-year-old Wongel Estifanos.
Denver drivers continue to be impacted by a change in how parking tickets are disputed. That system changed in September, when the city eliminated the ability to dispute parking tickets online.
Former Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen, who retired as chief in 2022, plans to announce next week that he is running for a seat on Denver City Council.
Colorado parents are raising concerns after a dispute between their school district and its water provider put the school's future firefighting water supply in question.