Hazy skies move in due to smoke from up north
Wildfires burning in Idaho and Montana are pushing a little smoke south into Colorado.
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Wildfires burning in Idaho and Montana are pushing a little smoke south into Colorado.
Many Coloradans woke up Monday to find the skies filled with haze and the Rocky Mountains barely visible.
Coloradans in the high country and along the Front Range woke up to smoky and hazy skies on Monday.
Wildfire smoke from manly outside of Colorado will once again be found across most of Colorado on Tuesday. Together with ozone, air quality will suffer.
A fire burning about 20 miles south of Rangley in Rio Blanco County remains uncontained as of Sunday afternoon.
A surge of smoke filled the sky in Denver late Saturday afternoon.
If you're a regular user of Twitter and follow the Colorado Weather hashtag, then you probably noticed how many people were all thinking the same thing on Tuesday.
The Colorado Public Interest Research Group announced a new campaign on Wednesday called #CleanAirColorado to spread awareness about a new petition to encourage alternative transportation options.
Tuesday should be the hottest day of the week for Denver and most places along the Front Range.
After a break from thick wildfire smoke that lasted several days, Colorado is bracing for a return of smoke on Monday that will quickly worsen air quality across much of the state.
After more than a week with unhealthy wildfire smoke mainly from California causing bad air, improvement will start Thursday and by Friday afternoon the smoke may no longer be noticeable.
Lack of visibility due to the wildfire smoke hovering over Colorado forced Flight for Life to turn down six flights in the last three days.
The new report confidently blames humans for our warming world and warns that a continued warming will lead to more extreme events.
When the smoke from California's wildfires rolled into Colorado on Saturday, the air quality dropped and stayed that way most of the day Sunday.
As smoky, hazy skies made it more difficult to enjoy some of the most popular outdoor activities in Colorado, a paddleboard and kayak rental company gave customers the option to reschedule or get a refund.
A large area of wildfire smoke from the Dixie Fire in California was to blame for the poor air quality across the west.
Despite a thick haze over the Boulder Valley, the Ironman 70.3 went on as scheduled.
The effects of the lingering smoke haze are still being felt.
The visibility could be as low as a mile at times around the state.
Another massive plume of smoke from California wildfires is moving toward Colorado
The smoke is from large fires that are burning in western states such as Oregon and California.
Unlike recent days, most of the haze visible along the Front Range on Tuesday is being caused by ozone and not wildfire smoke.
The ozone alert for the front range was extended until at least 4 p.m. on Tuesday.
The Morgan Creek Fire burning in Routt County is now about 7% contained. It started on July 9 and had been burning out of control.
The smoke was thick enough to reduce the visibility to the point where Denver's skyline was barely visible from our camera in the Denver Tech Center.
Two residents of Mexico were recently arrested in Colorado while transporting 180,000 rounds of large-caliber ammunition. They were pulled over after driving toward deputies and failing to dim their van's headlights.
A search is underway for a Colorado man who went missing earlier this week after he went camping.
A teenage boy in Northern Colorado got help from police to pull off a special proposal Friday.
Storm totals ranged from a dusting to more than a foot of snow across Colorado.
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Two residents of Mexico were recently arrested in Colorado while transporting 180,000 rounds of large-caliber ammunition. They were pulled over after driving toward deputies and failing to dim their van's headlights.
A search is underway for a Colorado man who went missing earlier this week after he went camping.
A teenage boy in Northern Colorado got help from police to pull off a special proposal Friday.
Storm totals ranged from a dusting to more than a foot of snow across Colorado.
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Survivors of child sexual assault are once again asking state lawmakers to refer a constitutional amendment to the ballot. If passed by voters, it would allow for civil suits in cases that happened decades earlier.
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The Trump administration has moved to replace websites that previously offered health information and access to COVID tests and treatment.
A Greeley father says he is lucky to be alive after suffering cardiac arrest during a basketball game in February.
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Eli Lilly and Co., the maker of Zepbound and Mounjaro, announced a successful Phase 3 trial for a once-daily GLP-1 pill for diabetes and weight loss.
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