- Coloradans are coming face-to-face with eye-popping price tags as they hit the road this summer.
- Colorado students have a long history of placing well in the bee. Spellers from the state have won the national competition 7 times — one of the highest champion counts of any state.
- The synthetic opiate is deadly even in small amounts, killing an estimated 150 people a day across the country. In Colorado, more than 900 people overdosed on the drug last year.
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife said divers recovered the person’s remains early Tuesday morning after an all-night search.
- The project focused on repairing a heavily damaged section of state highway between Lyons and Estes Park. It's expected to reopen to traffic ahead of Memorial Day.
- Some people headed to Southern Colorado in June for a music festival will be allowed to camp for an extra night despite local concern over wildfires.
- A cold front moving through the region is expected to keep fire activity at bay at least through Tuesday.
- The fire is now considered to be about 15 percent contained.
- The Simms fire broke out Thursday evening in the Uncompahgre National Forest around 15 miles southwest of Montrose.
- Baristas at three more Denver and Colorado Springs-area Starbucks coffee shops have voted to unionize, bringing the total number of organized locations to five out of several hundred statewide.
- The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning about dangerous fire conditions, which will last through Thursday afternoon due to dry and hot weather.
- The area has been closed to the public since last July, when mudslides in the Grizzly Creek Fire burn scar washed away several bridges along the lake’s main access trail.
- The fire, burning west of Cripple Creek, ignited on Thursday amid critical fire weather caused by high winds and dry conditions.
- A grass fire near the 6700 block of Ackerman Drive in Colorado Springs started around noon.
- The jump is a remarkable shift from a year ago, when one gallon of unleaded gasoline cost $3.02 on average.
- Colorado is an ideal place to raise alpacas because its arid climate mimics the Andes Mountains in South America.
