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Summit Fire & EMS is asking for an increase in our property taxes from 9 mills to 13 mills (44%). While it should be easy to support the professional, hard-working men and women of Summit...

12:30 p.m. Eastbound lanes on Interstate 70 have reopened between Frisco and Loveland Pass, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. Original story: A driver was killed after crashing into a semitrailer on Interstate 70...

10:08 p.m. Interstate 70 westbound lanes have reopened. 8:34 p.m. Steve Lipsher, spokesperson for Summit Fire & EMS, confirmed that an estimated four to five people were transported to St. Anthony Summit Hospital. Lipsher also...

The Summit Board of County Commissioners recently approved resolutions to support ballot measures 6A and 6B, which would increase taxes to support Summit Fire & EMS operations and extend an existing sales tax to support...

The Summit County election forum will be held from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 18, in Breckenridge. The forum will feature a Q&A with Summit School District Board of Education candidates as well as a discussion...

The driver of a semitrailer who was killed in a crash on Interstate 70 near Silverthorne on Tuesday, Oct. 5, has been identified as Vipan Kumar Mengi, a 43-year-old man from Jurupa Valley, California, according...

People ask me how I decide what to write about every other week. There is plenty to write about, but sometimes I am not sure what to focus on until I sit down to type...

Editor’s note: This story was updated at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 1 with new information. Crews embarked on another full day Friday, Oct. 1, of wrangling the Ptarmigan Fire in Silverthorne, which is now at 20%...

The Ptarmigan Fire didn't grow overnight, but remains active despite rain over the Silverthorne area, fire officials said Wednesday morning.

The evacuations for the Ptarmigan Fire in the upper Angler Mountain and the upper and lower Hamilton Creek neighborhoods will be lifted Thursday at 10 a.m., according to the Summit County sheriff.