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Scott Condon/The Aspen Times Colorado Parks and Wildlife invested funds several years ago into sprucing up Lake Christine, but problems have plagued the area. Scott Condon/The Aspen Times Chewed up asphalt covers the parking lot at Lake Christine. Scott Condon/The Aspen Times Colorado Parks and Wildlife is pursuing additional safety improvements at the Basalt Shooting Range but does not plan any operational changes this year if drought and fire danger grow. CPW area wildlife manager Matt Yamash...

Update 2 p.m.: Fire crews have contained a fire that broke out this morning near Old Clear Creek Road near the top of Spooner Summit, and Highway 50 has reopened. The fire was last reported to be about 1.5 acres in size, and there was one home in the area that was threatened. Light winds and cool temperatures helped firefighters get a handle on the blaze, with a helicopter dumping water to help out the hand crews on the ground. The fire is about a mile from the top of Spooner Summit, along the ...

Firefighters battle a structure fire Saturday morning in rural Carbondale. Courtesy photo UPDATE: Garfield County Road 100 (Catherine Store Road) has been reopened in both directions, as of 4:25 p.m. Saturday, following the structure fire. –– Fire crews responded to a structure fire with explosions due to propane tanks and ammunition stored inside a rural Carbondale garage Saturday morning, the Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District reported in a Saturday news release. The CRFPD respon...

Firefighters battle a structure fire Saturday morning in rural Carbondale. Courtesy photo Fire crews responded to a structure fire with explosions due to propane tanks and ammunition stored inside a rural Carbondale garage Saturday morning, the Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District reported in a Saturday news release. The CRFPD responded to the fire at 11:21 a.m., at a rural residence along County Road 100 just east of Carbondale. Upon arrival, firefighters found a detached 40-foot by 60-...

Weekly, asymptomatic testing of emergency responders in the Upper Roaring Fork Valley could begin by the end of this week or early next week, officials said Wednesday. The effort will include Aspen police officers, Pitkin County sheriff’s deputies, county jail staff and deputies, Aspen Fire Department personnel, dispatchers at the county’s 911 center and certain employees of the county’s Health and Human Services Department, said Kurt Dahl, Pitkin County’s director of environmental heal...