3 More Oil Spills From Flooding Found In Colorado
More spills are emerging from a Colorado oil patch ravaged by flooding as soggy conditions continue to hamper attempts to inspect the damage.
More spills are emerging from a Colorado oil patch ravaged by flooding as soggy conditions continue to hamper attempts to inspect the damage.
Vice President Joe Biden is promising residents that aid for areas devastated by massive flooding in Colorado won't stop even if the federal government shuts down.
After days of cleanup and repairs, transportation officials have reopened several state highways in the aftermath of powerful floods that ripped bridges and roads in northern Colorado, severely restricting travel in populated areas.
Record flooding continues in western and central Nebraska as the water that inundated Colorado flows east, but it appeared to cause few major problems because communities were able to prepare.
Emergency crews continued to work along the Platte River on Saturday as floodwaters from Colorado swept through Nebraska.
Coloradans watched for more spills in flooded oilfields as crews waited for the waters to recede so they could begin cleanup operations.
State officials urged residents on Friday to avoid the contaminated floodwater pouring into western Nebraska from Colorado, while offering assurances that the flood posed no immediate threat to cities, railroad lines or Interstate 80.
More spills were revealed Friday in a Colorado oilfield swamped by floodwaters as cleanup efforts remained stalled due to high waters and regulators cautioned that more oil releases were likely to be found in coming days.
Colorado's flooding shut down hundreds of natural gas and oil wells in the state's main petroleum-producing region and triggered at least two spills, temporarily suspending a multibillion-dollar drilling frenzy and sending inspectors into the field to gauge the extent of pollution.
Colorado's flooding has shut down hundreds of natural gas and oil wells in the state's top petroleum patch and triggered at least two significant spills.
The state climatologist's office explained how the 1965 flood compares with the 2013 flooding.
Crews are trying to clean up more than 5,000 gallons of oil that spilled into the flood-swollen South Platte River near the northern Colorado town of Milliken.
Damage from flooding in far northeastern Colorado has been limited so far but more water is still coming.
Hundreds of people are still waiting to be rescued from canyons and mountainous terrain in western Larimer County after Colorado's historic flooding, but there are some who say they don't want to leave.
The creep of all the water was still making its way to the eastern edge of Colorado Tuesday morning, but it was no longer creeping by the afternoon.
Colorado's flooding has been described as biblical, but you can't put that in the record books.
Western Nebraska residents are bracing for flooding along the South Platte River later this week when the water from Colorado's torrential rains flows into the state.
Although the rain has stopped and the water is no longer rising on the Front Range, flooding is still a big concern for communities on the Eastern Plains.
The search for people stranded from the Rocky Mountain foothills to the plains of northeastern Colorado grew more difficult Sunday, with a new wave of rain threatening to hamper airlifts from the flooded areas still out of reach.
As the overflowing South Platte River heads east it's devastating communities in Weld County.
A driver suffered injuries after driving into the South Platte River on Saturday.
A man was critically hurt and taken to the hospital early Friday morning after the vehicle he was driving went off the road and landed upside down in the South Platte River.
A body was spotted in the Platte River by a driver in Adams County Wednesday morning.
Evacuations remain in place for about 100 homeowners in southern Jefferson County due to the Lime Gulch Fire, which was likely started by lightning.
Firefighters quickly doused a brush fire in Brighton Sunday afternoon.
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A Flight For Life medical helicopter was left where it landed Friday near St. Mary's Glacier after damage was found on its tail rotor.
A 72-year-old man killed a grizzly bear in Flathead County, Montana after it attacked him while he was out picking berries.
Evacuations were ordered on Friday afternoon for a wildfire burning at the Western Inn Trailer Court near Dumont in Clear Creek County.
The 7/20 Memorial Foundation continues to honor the lives lost by being a resource and advocating for other communities struck by mass tragedy. It's made up of families of victims, survivors, and others directly impacted by the theatre shooting.
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A Flight For Life medical helicopter was left where it landed Friday near St. Mary's Glacier after damage was found on its tail rotor.
Evacuations were ordered on Friday afternoon for a wildfire burning at the Western Inn Trailer Court near Dumont in Clear Creek County.
The Adams County Sheriff's Office says deputies seized 39 birds, 32 of them roosters, from a property off Hudson Road in Watkins.
Saturday marks 12 years since a gunman opened fire in an Aurora movie theatre, killing a dozen people. The tradition of an annual vigil continues to remember the victims and families impacted.
Adams County Sheriff's Office was among a group of law enforcement agencies who responded to a property in Watkins this week where they say dozens of roosters were kept for cockfighting. Cockfighting is illegal across the United States.
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A Marine accused of using a Nazi salute during the U.S. Capitol insurrection has been sentenced to almost five years in prison for assaulting police officers who were guarding the building.
Mr. Biden indicated earlier Friday he could be back on the campaign trail within days.
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A Marine accused of using a Nazi salute during the U.S. Capitol insurrection has been sentenced to almost five years in prison for assaulting police officers who were guarding the building.
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