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.
Avalanches are just a threat in the mountains, they're also happening in the middle of Crested Butte.
Emergency officials in Crested Butte say they responded to at least two roof avalanches in the last two days.
Two Roaring Fork Valley men, Owen Green, 27, of Aspen, and Michael Goerne, 37, of Carbondale, are being remembered after they died Saturday in an avalanche near Crested Butte.
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 man says his car was destroyed after a bear got into it while it was parked but unlocked.
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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.
Fire chiefs in two departments northwest of Denver, Westminster and Arvada, say gaps in emergency dispatch technology between neighboring departments can slow response times and, in some cases, limit how quickly help arrives.
The Mighty Argo Cable Car gondola project near the old Argo Gold Mine and Mill in Idaho Springs is nearing completion.
A new sheriff has taken office in Costilla County after a grand jury indicted the former sheriff and other deputies last week.
Tolls for part of the express lane in Northern Colorado will take effect soon, and the warning period for weaving violations will begin.
A $7 million grant will keep a dedicated team of police officers patrolling downtown Denver through 2027, city officials said.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a counselor who challenged a law banning conversion therapy for minors, ruling that lower courts failed to apply "sufficiently rigorous First Amendment scrutiny."
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The Mighty Argo Cable Car gondola project near the old Argo Gold Mine and Mill in Idaho Springs is nearing completion.
A new sheriff has taken office in Costilla County after a grand jury indicted the former sheriff and other deputies last week.
Tolls for part of the express lane in Northern Colorado will take effect soon, and the warning period for weaving violations will begin.
Fire chiefs in Westminster and Arvada say gaps in emergency dispatch technology between neighboring departments can slow response times and, in some cases, limit how quickly help arrives.
Tomorrow, teachers at Sheridan School District 2 will skip school to strike. The district says schools will be closed through the rest of this week due to staff absences.
Plans to build a massive new sports complex in Douglas County took a major step forward on Tuesday night.
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On Tuesday night, the Denver City Council approved a contract for Axon to operate the city's license plate reader cameras.
Tickets are going on sale Tuesday for an event in Denver next month called "Night of Champions."
The DU Pioneers are heading to the Frozen Four for the third straight year. The Pios will play Michigan on April 9 in Las Vegas.
The most heavily-attended NWSL game ever ended in a scoreless draw on Saturday.
Six weeks after Ilia Malinin missed the Olympic podium, the "quad god" reeled off huge jumps and a backflip to retain his world figure skating championship title.
The National Women's Soccer League has rapidly expanded since its first year in operation in 2012.
U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss blocked the Trump administration from enforcing provisions of his executive order that directed federal agencies to cut off funding to NPR and PBS.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado counselor who challenged a law banning conversion therapy for minors, ruling that lower courts failed to apply "sufficiently rigorous First Amendment scrutiny."
President Trump told CBS News that he is not ready "quite yet" to abandon efforts to force Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz amid the Iran war, despite a Truth Social post suggesting allies need to do it themselves.
A Las Vegas performer has sued Taylor Swift over the title of her hit album "The Life of a Showgirl," alleging it violates the performer's trademark.
The visit "will celebrate the historic connections and the modern bilateral relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States," Buckingham Palace says.
Many Coloradans feel the recent Supreme Court case considering whether Colorado's law addressing conversion therapy violates free speech will have long-lasting effects on the health and well-being of our children, but disagree on what that outcome will be.
U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss blocked the Trump administration from enforcing provisions of his executive order that directed federal agencies to cut off funding to NPR and PBS.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine held a news conference at the Pentagon as gas prices in the U.S. continued to climb amid the ongoing war with Iran.
About half a million people in Colorado are living with a brain injury and many of them don't know it.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will add red tape and restrictions for those seeking Medicaid and SNAP benefits. And the costs to update computer systems that determine eligibility for those programs will be steep.
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The Colorado State Senate recognized Purple Day, marking efforts to raise awareness about epilepsy and support people living with the neurological disorder. For one state senator, the recognition carried deep personal meaning.
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After record warm temperatures this winter, pest control experts in Colorado are seeing more bugs out earlier.
The average price of gas across the U.S. last reached $4 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent crude oil prices surging.
JetBlue is hiking bag check fees as airlines face higher jet fuel costs related to the Iran war, making flying more expensive.
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A state investigation has found that a Denver assisted living facility took 13 minutes to locate a resident who collapsed and begin CPR -- failures regulators say placed all 125 residents in "immediate jeopardy."
Colorado's youth detention facilities are at the center of a civil rights lawsuit alleging that children are being kept beyond their court-ordered release dates. Advocates and families say the impact is irreversible.
One day after DIA's general counsel filed a federal lawsuit against the city and three of Mayor Mike Johnston's appointees -- alleging unethical and potentially illegal behavior, and claiming they were plotting to oust airport CEO Phil Washington -- one of the appointees, City Attorney Miko Brown, responded by saying of the claims in the lawsuit, "I know they're upsetting."
A woman whose aging mother was charged thousands of dollars to change a lock reached out to CBS Colorado in hopes that the station would help them get the money back.
A senior lawyer at Denver International Airport filed a federal lawsuit against the city and three top officials, claiming he was pushed out of his job after warning about possible alleged violations of law and more.