DENVER -- The discovery of 10 lynx kittens this spring marks the first newborns documented in Colorado since 2006, heartening biologists overseeing restoration of the mountain feline. The tuft-eared cats with big, padded feet were native to Colorado, but were wiped ...Read More
WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. -- A billboard showing President Barack Obama wearing a turban has sparked a lot of attention at the suburban Denver used car dealership that put it up.
The sign, completed Friday by artist David Lee, shows a grinning, ...Read More
COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. (AP) - Resi Stiegler is taken down the mountain on a sled after hooking a gate in giant slalom training and hurting her left leg.
The U.S. skier was loaded into an ambulance Thursday at the base of ...Read More
Appearing in a Ft. Collins, Colo., courtroom Friday, Richard and Mayumi Heene – the parents of "Balloon Boy" Falcon Heene – pled guilty to charges related to the Oct. 15 hoax involving Falcon's fake "flight" aboard a saucer-shaped balloon.
"This whole ...Read More
It was a great day for the brown pelican Wednesday, being taken off the endangered species list, but the driver of a rare 2006 Bugatti Veyron EB - one of only 15 in the U.S. - may be wishing he ...Read More
Interior Department officials said yesterday that they were taking the bird off the endangered-species list, after a nearly four-decade struggle to keep the brown pelican population afloat. The bird now prevalent across Florida, the Gulf and Pacific Coasts, and the Caribbean ...Read More
Wisconsin environmental experts say the rebuilding of an electrical transmission line in Waushara County could cause some lizards on the state's endangered species list to be killed. The Department of Natural Resources says a permit it would issue to American Transmission ...Read More
Reporting from New Orleans - Federal officials announced today that they are removing the brown pelican from the endangered species list, capping a century-long recovery that started under President Theodore Roosevelt.
The brown pelican is an avian fixture in Southern California ...Read More
WASHINGTON - After nearly 40 years of struggling for survival, the brown pelican is coming off the endangered species list.
The bird now prevalent across Florida, the Gulf and Pacific coasts and the Caribbean was declared an endangered species in 1970, ...Read More
VAIL, Colo. (AP) - Gunfire erupted inside a bar near the ski town of Vail Saturday night, leaving one man dead and three others wounded, police said. A 63-year-old suspect was quickly arrested. Police said the shooting began about 7:30 p.m. ...Read More
VAIL, Colo. -- Gunfire erupted inside a bar near the ski town of Vail Saturday night, leaving one man dead and three others wounded, police said. A 63-year-old suspect was quickly arrested. Police said the shooting began about 7:30 p.m. Saturday ...Read More
VAIL, Colo. — A man opened fire inside a bar near the ski town of Vail Saturday night, killing one person and wounding three others, police said. A suspect was quickly arrested. Police said the shooting erupted about 7:30 p.m. at ...Read More
EDGEWATER, Colo. - Police in the Denver suburb of Edgewater say a man stabbed himself, then said he was attacked by three men dressed in black who were either Hispanic or skinheads, in a ploy to miss work.
Twenty-nine-year-old Aaron Siebers ...Read More
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Authorities say a man arrested in Colorado is suspected of raping 11 women in New Mexico and Texas over 15 years, and recently trying to kill a police officer. The Pueblo County Sheriff's Department in Colorado arrested 47-year-old Robert Howard ...Read More
A Colorado Marine is one of nine people missing after a midair collision off the coast of Southern California on Thursday.
As of Saturday, the mission was still considered search and rescue, not search and recovery, officials said.
Coast Guard officials said ...Read More
BRECKENRIDGE, Colo.—Voters in this Rocky Mountain resort town will decide next week whether to legalize pot for all adults at a time when the movement to allow medical marijuana is gaining steam around the country. A measure before Breckenridge voters in ...Read More
DENVER—Police on a cold case hunt have finally identified a woman whose nude and battered body was found along a Boulder creek 55 years ago but it's not closed -- they want to name the killer. She was buried under a ...Read More
DENVER (AP) - Xcel Energy Inc. has added more than 257 megawatts of solar power to its plan for meeting Colorado's renewable energy standard by 2020. The utility filed its plan Tuesday for meeting the standard, which requires 20 percent of ...Read More
DENVER—A Germany-based solar company plans to open its first North American manufacturing site in Denver. Gov. Bill Ritter and Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper joined officials from SMA Solar Technology for the announcement Monday. The company plans to start production next year ...Read More
DENVER (AP) - The mother of the 6-year-old boy once feared missing inside a runaway helium balloon admitted the whole saga was a hoax, according to court documents released Friday. Mayumi Heene told sheriff's deputies that she and her husband Richard ...Read More
HONOLULU (AP) - Environmental activists are petitioning the federal government to put 83 coral species on the endangered species list. They say global warming and ocean acidification are threatening the corals with extinction. The Center for Biological Diversity said Tuesday that the ...Read More
