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Past snowstorm allows Monarch Mountain to extend ski season Monarch Ski Area and last updated 2021-03-16 17:16:35-04 SALIDA — Monarch Mountains ski season will be extended thanks to this past weekends storm that dumped snow across Colorado, according to a release. Monarch Mountains ski season is now extended by one week and will wrap up on Sunday, April 11. This area of Colorado saw 2 feet of snow in this most recent storm cycle. “As always, we want to give our guests the most time o...

From Breckenridge to Winter Park, Colorado ski towns are taking multiple steps to get visitors to take COVID guidelines seriously.

El Paso County’s COVID-19 positivity rate has been below 5 percent for the fourth day in a row.

Custer County's Board of Health met Wed. to "reaffirm" their decision to lift all state mandated COVID-19 restrictions.

According to Crowley/Otero Health Health Director Rick Ritter, thats no accident. "Its been a long road," Ritter said. "Its been arduous and difficult and just, you know, were all ready for it to be over. And were getting closer. We just need to keep doing what were doing. Doing our part to make sure we keep the rates down. And its (not just) individuals — we dont want people to get sick — but businesses depend on us. "We dont want to see any of our businesses go the other way and have to ...

one-year anniversary of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 with a moment of reflection on Friday, March 5. Additionally, city buildings displayed the color magenta, representing universal love, compassion and kindness, to commemorate the lives lost to this pandemic. Colorado has lost nearly 6,000 people, including 740 in El Paso County, to COVID-19. Josh Carrier, a former Colorado Springs Police officer, lost a bid to have his 70-years-to-life sentence reconsidered. He was convicted of mol...

The luck of the Irish ran out last year on St. Patricks Day, normally one of the busiest times for bars and pubs. March 17, 2020, was the first day of a two-month-plus-long COVID-based lockdown in Colorado, which closed restaurants to in-house dining and made bars that couldnt come up with some way to serve food strictly verboten. Just a few days earlier, Denvers annual St. Patricks Day Parade had been canceled, though incautious revelers still packed bars in trendy neighborhoods that weekend (...

The resorts will now be open until mid-April.

and last updated 2021-03-09 09:31:44-05 DENVER — The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is relaxing some COVID-19 restrictions under an amended public health order issued Sunday. The changes include increased capacity for restaurants and an expanded last call to order alcohol for counties on Level Blue and Level Yellow on the states COVID-19 dial. The amended order is also bringing changes to the dial. While the levels — green, blue, yellow, red and purple — rem...

Colorado’s dial framework standardizes different levels of “openness” at the county level, CDPHE's website says