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3 active duty soldiers cited, fined for poaching mule deer on Fort Carson, Colorado state land

The investigation started after a hunter alerted officers at the Army post about a poached buck in a training area in November 2024

DATE: Jan 21, 2026 | CATEGORY: Local News

No new wolves will be translocated to Colorado this year, Parks and Wildlife says

Decision follows an October directive from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

DATE: Jan 21, 2026 | CATEGORY: Local News

After wandering into New Mexico, Colorado gray wolf rereleased in Grand County

The male wolf, a yearling from the Copper Creek pack, is the offspring of wolves blamed for livestock attacks in Grand County last year

DATE: Dec 15, 2025 | CATEGORY: Regional News

A hiker’s deadly fall highlights Colorado’s struggle to account for its abandoned mines

Colorado has closed about 14,000 abandoned mine openings since 1980, but officials say thousands more – many unknown to the state – remain

DATE: Nov 24, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado’s volunteer search and rescue teams to get funding boost

Colorado Backcountry Search and Rescue Program fee will now be $1.25, up from 25 cents

DATE: Nov 14, 2025 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Fast-moving wildfires burn nearly 21,000 acres across northwestern Colorado

Elk and Lee fires, which were sparked by lightning over the weekend, made big runs Monday

DATE: Aug 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado is split into snowpack haves and have-nots, drought report shows

The northern mountains are loaded with snow, but to the south, paltry snowpack illustrates alarmingly high temperatures recorded in the past few months

DATE: Mar 14, 2025 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Amendment I: Should Colorado judges be able to deny bail to people charged with first-degree murder?

Measure is an effort to remedy an unintended consequence from when state’s death penalty was abolished in 2020

DATE: Oct 15, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Experienced climber falls 800 feet to his death on ridge near Telluride

21-year-old man from Arizona is second person to die while hiking in Colorado this week

DATE: Jul 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Colorado ranchers can kill wolves that are attacking livestock, federal officials say

Wolf reintroduction on Western Slope is on track for this year; still no word on where wolves will come from

DATE: Sep 16, 2023 | CATEGORY: Local News

Three people found dead at campsite were sisters, 14-year-old boy who planned to ‘live off the grid’

All were Colorado Springs residents, according to Gunnison County coroner

DATE: Jul 25, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News

3 decomposed bodies found near remote campsite in western Colorado

A hiker made the grim discovery Sunday northeast of Gunnison

DATE: Jul 13, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News