Fire officials reported additional progress toward containing western Colorado’s five wildfires through the morning of July 22, with three of the fires more than 50% contained. The five blazes have ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Update 8 p.m.: A new wildfire burning south of Interstate 70 near Rifle forced mandatory evacuations Thursday night, county officials said. JULY 18 UPDATE: ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rain showers will start Sunday across Colorado, including on the drought-stricken Western Slope where multiple wildfires are burning on hundreds of square ...

The wildfires that started in Rio Blanco County have forced more evacuations as the damage wrought by this season’s wildfires approaches 190,000 acres. Three of the eight largest fires in the state ...

The lee and Elk wildfires bracketing the town of Meeker have grown to more than 75,000 acres combined, according to fire officials on Aug. 8. There was still no containment on either blaze in Rio ...

Wildfire activity picked up in Colorado over the weekend, with the Elk Fire consuming more than 2,000 acres since lightning sparked it on Aug. 1, according to the Rio Blanco County Sheriff’s Office.

Five wildfires continued to burn across Colorado’s Western Slope on Wednesday with minimal containment, although firefighters managed to prevent more large runs of fire growth and protected almost all ...