Alan Gionet

Two rescues within the past week in San Miguel County are a reminder about preparation in the mountains as the arrival of warm weather means more people in the mountains.

A rescue mission flown to retrieve an injured climber last weekend is now the highest-known hoist rescue ever in Colorado.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has closed a popular park in Jefferson County due to "aggressive bear activity."

A former DNA analyst with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation changed her plea to guilty in court on Tuesday to four charges, as part of an agreement in which prosecutors dropped 99 other charges she was facing.

Rough weather rolled over the Colorado community of Evergreen on Wednesday night, swelling Bear Creek and tributaries and tossing debris and mud into homes and downtown.

Time is running out for states to come to some kind of consensus for rules under the Colorado River Compact.

Colorado officials are reallocating money not used to clear snow over the winter due to the record-low snowpack. Some of those leftover funds are now going towards wildfire mitigation projects.

Home losses in Pueblo and Custer Counties are now at 260 homes. The fast-moving Aspen Acres Fire is still only 13% contained with over 91,000 acres burned.

Researchers are getting a better idea of the ills caused by wildfire smoke as the West becomes the location of larger and more severe fires.

The San Miguel County sheriff is expressing frustration after a man from western Colorado sought help but then declined it following a reported fall during a base-jumping incident south of Telluride.