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By stephen hobbs stephen.hobbs@gazette.com -

Barbara McMillan is devastated. The owner of the Western Federation of Miners Union Hall in Victor, a town southwest of Colorado Springs, has poured an estimated $400,000 revitalizing the building "from the ground to the top" since she bought it about four years ago. Her determined...

Associated Press

DENVER — People impacted by a 2012 Colorado wildfire started by the state have gotten their compensation payments from the government. The payments disbursed this week total nearly $18 million for about nearly two dozen parties with outstanding claims from the Lower North Fork...

SHINGLE SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — A private drone trying to record footage of a Northern California wildfire nearly hindered efforts to attack the flames from the air, but firefighters made enough progress to allow most of the 1,200 people under evacuation orders to return home Monday....

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CRAIG — Firefighters are making progress against a wildfire burning near ranches and oil and gas wells in northwestern Colorado. The Elk Springs Fire was listed at about 450 acres Monday. Fire managers say good weather has helped crews contained 90 percent of the fire. It which...

Associated Press

CRAIG — Firefighters in northwestern Colorado are battling a new wildfire — a 300-acre blaze near Elk Springs. The Elk Springs Fire started Saturday in windy conditions. It's burning near a ranch as well as oil and gas facilities and power lines. Recent lightning strikes...

By stephen hobbs stephen.hobbs -

A structure fire at a building at 110 North 4th St. in Victor broke out around 3:15 p.m. Saturday, but no one was injured, the Teller County Sheriff's Office said. A dispatcher in the sheriff's office said the fire, which broke out in an empty building being remodeled, was contained....

The Associated Press

CRAIG — Firefighters hope to have a 32-square-mile wildfire in northwestern Colorado fully contained by Sunday. The Alkali Fire, burning on mostly private land near Maybell, was listed as 75 percent contained Saturday. The fire killed three cattle, destroyed a cabin, barn and...

By Tom Roeder tom.roeder@gazette.com -

Airmen from the 302nd Airlift Wing in Colorado Springs are ready to be called to battle against wildfires raging in the Pacific Northwest as troops from U.S. Northern Command at Peterson Air Force Base coordinate military efforts to fight the blazes. Lt. Col. Luke Thompson with the...

Associated Press

CRAIG — Firefighters have kept a 32-square-mile blaze from spreading in northwestern Colorado as scattered showers fall in the area. Lynn Barclay of the Northwest Colorado Fire Management Unit said Friday the Alkali Fire remained 50 percent contained with full containment expected...

The Associated Press

Crews are battling a small, four-acre wildfire Wednesday northeast of Steamboat Springs in the Routt National Forest, according to a the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control. Campers and hikers in the area have been evacuated as the lightning-sparked blaze burns, forest...