Fire Crews Battle Wildland Fire, Structure Fire In Crested Butte
Firefighters rushed to battle a structure fire and a wildland fire in Crested Butte on Wednesday. The Crested Butte Fire Protection District said it was a complicated scene.
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Firefighters rushed to battle a structure fire and a wildland fire in Crested Butte on Wednesday. The Crested Butte Fire Protection District said it was a complicated scene.
A marmot from Colorado was captured in Arizona, after surviving a 600-mile road trip underneath a car -- in record heat.
Some mountain communities are altering their approach to tourism to manage guest experience amid an affordable housing crisis and subsequent labor shortage.
The slide took place on the north side of Snodgrass Mountain near Crested Butte.
As ski resorts try to figure out how to operate safely during the coronavirus pandemic, by requiring facemasks, enforcing social distancing in lift lines and eliminating dine-in service, Trump's order has added another obstacle heading into the winter: hiring enough temporary workers to fill crucial jobs like operating chair lifts, serving food and cleaning hotel rooms.
This weekend usually brings the beginning of the heavy summer travel season, especially for those who love our mountain passes. Coronavirus means many of those passes will be not be open.
A letter from CEO Rob Katz to employees announced that Vail Resorts will work toward an opening in roughly a month. The hope, Katz noted in the letter, is that their resorts will be open by late June or early July.
Daniel Escalante was a former mountain guide and Crested Butte town councilman and had extensive backcountry experience.
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Two backcountry skiers were killed over the weekend in an avalanche in a Colorado area known as Death Pass.
Avalanche warnings are in effect, triggered in part by the early snowfall in parts of the High Country.
A Colorado State Patrol officer fatally shot someone at the scene of a one-vehicle crash in western Colorado.
Crested Butte is ramping up its snowmaking, and that's helped push its opening date up.
Vail Resorts announced on Monday that they will acquire Crested Butte and three other ski areas outside Colorado.
In January 2017 snowstorms were measured by the feet instead of inches, the town ran out of room to store all the snow, and the ski resort even shut down for several days because of too much snow!
A suspect was arrested after threatening statements were made at Gunnison High School.
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A lot of snow in winter in Crested Butte isn't really that big of a story, but the extraordinarily large amount they've gotten over the past few weeks is surely front page news.
For ski resorts in Colorado and the Sierra Nevada, it's a good problem to have: too much snow.
Crested Butte Mountain Resort has received seven-and-a-half feet of snow in the past 10 days, claiming the most snow of any ski area in Colorado so far this year.
The central committee of the Colorado Democratic Party on Wednesday voted 89.8% in favor of a measure to censure Gov. Jared Polis.
A hidden fire that has been burning underground near Meeker since the 1930s is now hot enough that state crews are racing to stop it from sparking a wildfire above ground.
Long before satellite tracking and missile warning systems, Buckley was a training ground for U.S. forces preparing for World War II.
Mile High United Way is hosting a Women United Village event to support mothers from underserved communities.
Federal funding has been approved for a major water infrastructure project in Greeley aimed at protecting the city's drinking water supply from ongoing impacts tied to the Cameron Peak Fire in 2020.
The central committee of the Colorado Democratic Party on Wednesday voted 89.8% in favor of a measure to censure Gov. Jared Polis.
A hidden fire that has been burning underground near Meeker since the 1930s is now hot enough that state crews are racing to stop it from sparking a wildfire above ground.
Long before satellite tracking and missile warning systems, Buckley was a training ground for U.S. forces preparing for World War II.
Mile High United Way is hosting a Women United Village event to support mothers from underserved communities.
Federal funding has been approved for a major water infrastructure project in Greeley aimed at protecting the city's drinking water supply from ongoing impacts tied to the Cameron Peak Fire in 2020.
The group behind an upcoming rebate program is hoping to get more Coloradans to make the switch to heat pumps for their heating and cooling needs.
The central committee of the Colorado Democratic Party on Wednesday voted 89.8% in favor of a measure to censure Gov. Jared Polis.
The southbound lanes of I-25 reopened Wednesday morning near Castle Rock after a crash.
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston says street homelessness is at a nine-year low. Arapahoe County says it is also seeing big improvements in homelessness.
Gov. Jared Polis says a petition by hundreds of Democrats calling for him to be censored is politically motivated.
The Colorado Avalanche will begin the Western Conference final Wednesday night without star defenseman Cale Makar on the ice.
Ronda Rousey used her signature armbar to stop Gina Carano just 17 seconds into a comeback bout between the two MMA fighters.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino joked that if someone does pay $2 million for a ticket to the World Cup final, "I will personally bring him a hot dog and a Coke."
The Preakness Stakes featured its biggest field in 15 years with 14 horses in the middle jewel of horse racing's Triple Crown.
The Broncos full NFL schedule is out and includes late-season rematches against Denver's 2025 playoff opponents.
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WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says risks from the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda are "high at the national and regional levels, and low at the global level."
The national average for a gallon of gasoline has been ticking up since the start of the war with Iran. The latest average of $4.50 a gallon is an increase of over $1.50 since the war started.
The central committee of the Colorado Democratic Party on Wednesday voted 89.8% in favor of a measure to censure Gov. Jared Polis.
Federal funding has been approved for a major water infrastructure project in Greeley aimed at protecting the city's drinking water supply from ongoing impacts tied to the Cameron Peak Fire in 2020.
The $1.776 billion fund, which is part of the agreement to settle Trump's lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury Dept., is to be used to compensate those who claim that the government weaponized the legal system against them.
University of Colorado Regent Wanda James has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a censure issued by the Board of Regents after she criticized a public health campaign she said included racist imagery.
Investigators have been looking at a handful of Chinese firms that together control the majority of unrefrigerated shipping container manufacturing around the globe, the sources said.
A CBS News medical correspondent and doctor says her "biggest concern for the World Cup is actually measles. It's not hantavirus, it is not Ebola."
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says risks from the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda are "high at the national and regional levels, and low at the global level."
Congress' decision not to extend enhanced marketplace tax credits has boosted the appeal of alternative health coverage with lower monthly premiums.
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An American medical missionary in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was evacuated after testing positive for Ebola.
The City of Denver and the parent company of the Denver Post have reached a tentative agreement to resolve a major lease dispute over the iconic downtown building that bears the newspaper's name, CBS News Colorado has learned.
Congress' decision not to extend enhanced marketplace tax credits has boosted the appeal of alternative health coverage with lower monthly premiums.
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Polymarket users can now trade on private companies' valuations, IPOs and secondary market activity.
Many Americans are signaling disapproval of the technology amid fears that it will eclipse already competitive entry-level jobs.
The City of Denver and the parent company of the Denver Post have reached a tentative agreement to resolve a major lease dispute over the iconic downtown building that bears the newspaper's name, CBS News Colorado has learned.
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Glendale city leaders are forcefully opposing Colorado's proposed Bus Rapid Transit project on Colorado Boulevard, warning the plan could dramatically worsen traffic for drivers while delivering only modest transit gains.
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