Tag: Colorado News
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Steamboat Springs bear encounter marks 8th attack this year
A person was attacked by a bear in Steamboat Springs on Thursday, marking the eighth bear attack in Colorado this year. Colorado Parks and Wildlife said the adult victim was napping in a backyard patio chair Thursday afternoon when they saw a bear approaching. The person remained calm and did not move in an attempt…
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Sales tax for Front Range passenger train heading to Colorado ballot in November
NORTHEAST OF PUEBLO — The Front Range Passenger Rail District board of directors voted 14-1 Friday to refer a funding measure connected to the Colorado Connector train service to the November ballot. The vote was held at the Federal Railroad Administration’s testing facility northeast of Pueblo. Immediately after the vote, board members and supporters took…
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Man fatally shot after allegedly shooting 2 Colorado troopers, firing at deputies, officials say
A harrowing chain of events that unfolded Tuesday morning in a short time span west of Woodland Park left two Colorado State Patrol troopers with gunshot wounds and their vehicles damaged in the line of duty, several Teller County Sheriff’s Office deputies fired at but uninjured and one suspect deceased. “It’s a misconception nothing can…
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Aspen Acres fire: Rye residents scheduled to return home
Residents in the town of Rye are planning for a return home Thursday after officials announced a scheduled change in evacuation status. The mandatory evacuation order for two areas known as zone P-8 and P-11, which includes Rye, will move to pre-evacuation status at 8 a.m. Thursday, according to the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office, which…
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Colorado wildfires: Aspen Acres surpasses 101,000 acres burned
The Aspen Acres fire in Pueblo and Custer counties has grown by nearly 800 acres since Monday, hitting the 101,546-acre mark, officials announced Tuesday on social media. The fire, the seventh-largest in Colorado history by acreage burned, remained 61% contained and had 1,256 assigned personnel on Tuesday, down about 50 from a day earlier. Some…
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Aspen Acres fire: Mandatory evacuations are back for some residents planning returns to homes
Some residents in Custer County were planning for a return to their homes Monday as evacuation orders related to the Aspen Acres fire had been eased in the morning, but Mother Nature had other ideas. Temperatures in the 80s and humidity below 30% helped the fire on the west side of the boundary, including in…
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Aspen Acres fire nears 100,000-acre mark
The Aspen Acres fire in Pueblo and Custer counties continued slow growth, according to officials on Wednesday, nearing the 100,000-acre burned mark. Colorado’s seventh-largest fire in history grew by 452 acres since Tuesday, meaning it’s burned 99,529 acres. Containment remained at 36%. The Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday said the community of Beulah was…
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Colorado River overallocation collides with Colorado snowpack conditions
Tapped: Colorado’s Front Range is at the center of one of the American West’s most complex and consequential water challenges. This series examines the interconnected systems that determine how the region secures, stores, and conserves its water — while navigating the competing demands of fast‑growing urban communities and the increasingly unpredictable mountain snowpack that underpins…
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Wildfire near Colorado-New Mexico border grows
A wildfire southeast of Trinidad near the Colorado-New Mexico border grew to 450 acres Monday afternoon, according to information from the National Interagency Fire Center. The Schwachheim fire was first reported on Sunday. It was about 25 acres late Sunday but grew overnight into Monday morning. No containment was reported as of around 5 p.m.…
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Pueblo man held in Afghanistan for more than a year released, Taliban says
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities on Tuesday released American academic Dennis Coyle after holding him for over a year, with the foreign ministry saying the release came on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday that marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. A statement from the ministry said the academic researcher had…