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State public health officials will create a program to address wildfire smoke hazards after receiving a $1.9 million grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency. The federal money will go to Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment officials to do outreach, education and training for people in communities across the state. Smoke from wildfires is especially harmful to people with asthma, with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease and other pre-existing condi...

One of the trails most heavily damaged by the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire in northern Colorado will reopen on Saturday morning.

Here in the northern Front Range, we are no strangers to wildfire. As a resident of Northern Colorado, I have seen firsthand the impacts that large-scale fires like the 2012 High Park Fire and 2020 Cameron Peak Fire can have on our air quality, our water resources and our communities. This is why Ballot Measures 2F and 6B are so important.

There is heavy smoke in the Mother Lode this morning, and a big reason is the recent growth of the Quarry Fire.

The Prescribed Burning Act called on the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department’s Forestry Division to create the training program.

Three years after the historic Cameron Peak and East Troublesome fires, some severely burned areas in Colorado's mountains have seen little regrowth.

On the morning of Sept. 7, Congresswoman, Teresa Leger Fernández found her way on a four-wheel-drive vehicle to an isolated, burnt-out, mountain top barely three miles west of Las Vegas,

The fires will prompt a closure of forest service trails and campsites in the area of White River Road but homes and county roads are not impacted

The Colorado River this spring ran high, fast and so full of sediment pushed downstream from wildfire burn scars that the water treatment plant in Hot Sulphur Springs couldn't keep up.

The blaze in the Jemez Mountains that charred about 46,000 acres was the third of 2022 found to have been caused by the planned treatment meant to prevent such fires.