All the headlines from our Colorado Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 17 2017 // Neighbors have filed the first lawsuit stemming from a fatal house explosion in northern Colorado that’s blamed on unrefined natural gas flowing from a severed pipeline.The Longmont Times-Call reported Swiin Jeffrey...
May 12 2017 // The National Transportation Safety Board has joined the investigation into a fatal Colorado house explosion blamed on unrefined natural gas flowing from a severed pipeline.The Longmont Times-Call reported the agency got...
May 9 2017 // State records show Colorado has only three people assigned to check on the safety of pipelines running from about 54,000 active oil and gas wells, a task that came under scrutiny after a leaking pipeline was blamed for a...
Apr 28 2017 // More than 3,000 petroleum wells are being shut down in Colorado as a precaution after a house explosion killed two people, an oil and gas company said.Anadarko Energy said it operated a well about 200 feet (60 meters) from...
Apr 25 2017 // A Colorado city has agreed to pay $212,000 to settle a racial profiling lawsuit over the arrest of two black men that was captured on cellphone video and widely viewed on social media.The Colorado Springs Gazette reported...
Apr 24 2017 // A minor earthquake rattled homes in northwestern Colorado over the weekend.The University of Utah Seismograph Stations reports the magnitude 3.7 quake hit just before noon Saturday. The epicenter was 2.5 miles northwest of...
Apr 20 2017 // City councilors in Denver, Colo. have approved a nearly $1 million settlement with the family of a teenager who was shot and killed by police while driving a stolen car toward an officer in 2015. The proposed settlement in...
Apr 19 2017 // A Colorado jury will decide if Vail Resorts properly closed an expert ski run where a teenager was killed in an avalanche.District Judge Fred Gannett ruled last week that jurors must decide if signs on the run called Prima...
Apr 17 2017 // Colorado is in store for an average to slightly below-average wildfire season this year, despite dry conditions and early outbreaks on the eastern plains, officials said.“But the fires will occur,” said Michael...
Apr 11 2017 // Colorado State University hurricane researchers are predicting a slightly below-average Atlantic hurricane season in 2017, citing the potential development of El Niño as well as recent anomalous cooling in the tropical...
Apr 4 2017 // Economic damage from a Colorado mine waste spill caused by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may be far less than originally feared after attorneys drastically reduced some of the larger claims, The Associated Press...
Apr 3 2017 // Colorado workers’ compensation insurer Pinnacol Assurance is distributing $50 million in dividend checks to its policyholders.More than 53,000 employers throughout the state — roughly 94.2 percent of the...
Mar 28 2017 // The Colorado State Patrol is cracking down on drivers in the state’s rural areas who are caught behind the wheel without a seat belt.The Denver Post reported the increased enforcement in rural Colorado started Monday...
Mar 22 2017 // Colorado workers’ compensation insurer Pinnacol Assurance is distributing $50 million in dividend checks this month to its policyholders.More than 53,000 employers throughout the state — roughly 94.2 percent of the...
Mar 20 2017 // A small wildfire in the mountains just outside downtown Boulder, Colorado, forced people from their homes on March 19 and ignited dead trees that exploded into black plumes of smoke, authorities and residents said.Wind was...
Mar 20 2017 // The Professional Independent Insurance Agents of Colorado (PIIAC) announced it has changed its name to the Trusted Choice Insurance Agents of Colorado (TCCO).“As an association, we strive to be there for our agents,...
Mar 15 2017 // The nation’s most generous grow-your-own marijuana laws came closer this week to being curbed in Colorado, where the state House advanced a pair of bills aimed at cracking down on people who grow weed outside the...
Mar 15 2017 // Spills related to oil and gas development in Colorado are down for the second straight year amid a slowdown in drilling. The Daily Sentinel reported Tuesday that an analysis of state data by the conservation group Center...
Mar 6 2017 // Despite big media hype that has included TV shows, magazines and blogs, the tiny home market is still small. Figures on its current size are hard to come by but the tiny home movement of people looking to downsize and...
Mar 6 2017 // A wind storm that recently tore through a Colorado city was deadly, but less costly than expected.The Jan. 9 wind storm caused downed trees and widespread power outages, but it didn’t make the list of Colorado...