Fire danger rises across portions of Colorado, including Denver metro area
At one time the second in command at the Lake County Sheriff's Office, Fernando Mendoza, 49, was fired after complaints were filed by several female employees of the department. The ensuing sexual harassment investigation led to discovery of Mendoza's manipulation of his teenage step-daughter in 2012.
A teacher at the Center Early Childhood Programs in Lake County faces charges of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust.
There's going to be a new Lake County sheriff in town come Tuesday.
A 32-year-old man has been wounded by an officer responding to a domestic dispute call in western Colorado.
Two Colorado photographers planned to spend the Labor Day weekend searching for fall colors. They found a wildfire instead.
A couple tied the knot atop one of Colorado's 14ers over the weekend.
A group of veterans will participate in the Leadville Marathon to raise money to support suicide awareness in the military.
The fire has burned a little over an acre and is 90% contained.
A man in Leadville faces 12 years in prison for mail theft, identity theft, bank fraud and being a felon in possession of firearms.
Undersheriff Fernando Mendoza is being investigated for "sexual harassment actions occurring within the Lake County Sheriff's Office."
The District Attorney for the 5th Judicial District is investigating sexual harassment allegations within the Lake County Sheriff's Office.
A 15-year-old girl died after falling into a creek.
A man charged in a fatal stabbing outside a bar in Leadville has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
Good Samaritans who police say pulled over to help a car on the side of the road were carjacked at gunpoint and the suspects are on the run.
Thousands of people have viewed cell phone video that some believe shows police misconduct. The Lake County sheriff is defending his deputies and the way they handled the situation as it was captured on video.
The District Attorney's office in Leadville is investigating a report of officer misconduct in Lake County last week.
An Avon woman has been sentenced to 60 days in jail after prosecutors asked a Lake County District Court Judge to give her six years for her seventh alcohol-related driving offense.
The District Attorney for the Fifth Judicial District is upset over the sentence handed down for a woman who was convicted of her seventh DUI.
A 32-year-old man is facing charges for making a threat against the Colorado Mountain College campus in Leadville.
Colorado Mountain College in Leadville was placed on lockout Monday morning due to a bomb threat. One person authorities believe is an active student was arrested in connection with the investigation.
The backcountry skiers who died in the central Colorado mountains Thursday while he was being treated for hypothermia was a Forest Service ranger.
CBS4 has learned that after both missing backcountry skiers were found Thursday, one of them has died. The search for the two skiers began after they had not been heard from since Wednesday.
Mine officials in Climax have pulled the plug on the long-standing tradition of a cross illuminated for Christmas on the side of a mine building.
The former Leadville police chief has been arrested.
An experienced mountain biker died Saturday while participating in the grueling Leadville 100 race in Colorado's mountains.
An Army veteran in Denver received a helping hand Tuesday when a partnership helped fix up his childhood home.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll will lead the ATF and plans to remain secretary of the Army.
The City of Boulder is making improvements to eight of their intersections the city calls "high risk crash areas."
A Denver deputy was injured when he was attacked in a pod of the Denver Detention Center, a spokeswoman for the Denver Sheriff Department said.
More than two dozen health care organizations are urging Colorado lawmakers debating the budget to spare a program that they say will save the state money.
Warm, windy, and dry weather for Wednesday afternoon has prompted the First Alert Weather Team to call a First Alert Weather Day for Wednesday.
An Army veteran in Denver received a helping hand Tuesday when a partnership helped fix up his childhood home.
The City of Boulder is making improvements to eight of their intersections the city calls "high risk crash areas."
A Denver deputy was injured when he was attacked in a pod of the Denver Detention Center, a spokeswoman for the Denver Sheriff Department said.
More than two dozen health care organizations are urging Colorado lawmakers debating the budget to spare a program that they say will save the state money.
Sen. Michael Bennet joins other Democrats for the announcement of the reintroduction of the American Family Act in Congress.
Days after what is being described as an oil and gas "containment loss" incident at the Bishop well site in Northern Colorado that forced families out of their homes and closed a school for several days, a community meeting has been planned.
The City of Boulder, northwest of Denver, is making improvements to eight of their intersections the city calls "high risk crash areas."
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The Colorado Sports Hall of Fame inducts its Class of 2025 with Theodore "Bubbles" Anderson among the inductees.
The Denver Pioneers men's ice hockey team is heading to its 20th Frozen Four.
The Denver Nuggets have fired head coach Michael Malone and said they won't extend the contract of general manager Calvin Booth in the final week of the NBA regular season.
The March Madness tournament came to an end Monday night as the Florida Gators took home the NCAA men's basketball championship.
Alex Ovechkin made history when he scored against the New York Islanders on a power play in the second period.
At the beginning of the season, Rockies pitcher Lucas Gilbreath's focus was on an individual who transcends baseball — his daughter.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll will lead the ATF and plans to remain secretary of the Army.
The U.S. stock market surged immediately after President Trump announced the pause on most of his new tariffs.
Thanks to a mouse watching clips from "The Matrix," scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.
President Trump has issued executive orders that seek to punish major law firms involved in legal challenges to his second-term agenda.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed health program cuts and the measles vaccine in his first network TV interview since joining the Trump administration.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll will lead the ATF and plans to remain secretary of the Army.
Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams testified Wednesday afternoon before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism.
The U.S. stock market surged immediately after President Trump announced the pause on most of his new tariffs.
President Trump has issued executive orders that seek to punish major law firms involved in legal challenges to his second-term agenda.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed health program cuts and the measles vaccine in his first network TV interview since joining the Trump administration.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed health program cuts and the measles vaccine in his first network TV interview since joining the Trump administration.
Kennedy's comments mark the first time he has publicly urged people to get the measles vaccine since becoming HHS secretary.
There are now three confirmed cases of measles in Colorado. All investigations are ongoing and are typically handled at the county level with support from the state.
Nationwide, calls increased 40% soon after the three-digit number was officially launched in 2022.
The CDC's team of lead poisoning experts remained off the job a week after the sweeping HHS layoffs.
The U.S. stock market surged immediately after President Trump announced the pause on most of his new tariffs.
The S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq surged after President Trump said he was freezing reciprocal tariffs for 90 days.
China said it will hike its levies on U.S. imports to 84% after President Trump hit Chinese goods with 104% tariff
President Trump's tariffs on imports from dozens of countries kicked in Wednesday, including 104% on goods from China, dramatically ramping up a potential global trade war.
President Trump claims 90,000 factories have shuttered since the free trade agreement took effect, but more recent data shows the figure is misleadingly high.
A spokesperson for Denver Mayor Mike Johnston admitted this week that the office has been operating an internal group on the encrypted messaging app Signal that was monitoring news stories and had been auto-deleting the group's messages.
A year ago, Michael Burch walked into the Huerfano County jail. He never walked out. His death has now prompted a federal lawsuit.
A conservative legal group said it was "no coincidence" that Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and his staff began communicating on Signal after the group filed open records requests over Denver's handling of the migrant crisis.
For one Colorado father, something felt off with the family investigator working on his case case. He filed a complaint with the state.
Denver's mayor and 14 of his top advisors, appointees and lawyers nicknamed themselves "Strike Force" and communicated about the migrant crisis through an end-to end encryption app that then proceeded to automatically delete their initial conversations.