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Booze and speed proved a deadly combination for a pickup driver who lost control and plunged off Cottonwood Pass Road in Eagle County according to the Colorado State Patrol.

The Denver City Council's finance committee on Wednesday endorsed a $51.9 million operating agreement with the Denver Health and Hospital Authority.

An alleged drug deal gone bad preceded the shooting of a 17-year-old girl Tuesday night near a park in Thornton, police say.

A federal grand jury indicted a 27-year-old former surgical nurse on 175 counts of tampering and creating a counterfeit controlled substance after he allegedly stole doses of a powerful painkiller from patients at Boulder Community Hospital.

To City Councilman Chris Nevitt, it was "a match made in heaven."

A classroom of third-graders at Douglas County's Acres Green Elementary School will also be a classroom of novelists by the end of November.

Ousted Colorado Rep. Marilyn Musgrave is making national headlines - and not the good kind.

A three-year effort to improve air quality at Rocky Mountain National Park could suffer a setback if a proposed federal rule is finalized this year, regulators in the state said Wednesday.

Kim Struyk and nine of her teammates spent three weeks last spring pulling weeds in Boulder's expansive greenbelt.

The FBI on Wednesday offered a $50,000 reward for information on four radical environmentalists accused of a string of arsons, including the massive 1998 fire on Vail Mountain.

Westbound U.S. 6 at Kipling Street was closed for two hours Wednesday morning after a woman trying to cross the busy freeway was hit by a car.

A driver led authorities on a wild chase - hitting speeds up to 110 mph - before he was arrested Wednesday in Denver.

A truck spewing red-hot debris ignited at least nine brush fires along Titan Road in Douglas County, according to a statement by South Metro Fire Rescue Authority.

Today's El Paso County commissioner meeting will be split into two segments and held at two places.Commissioners will start their meeting at 9 a.m.

The Boy Scouts of America will ring bells at The Salvation Army's red kettles throughout El Paso County on Saturday.

The city of Colorado Springs will cut down more than 400 trees this winter in the Templeton Gap Floodway to protect property owners and the city should flooding occur in the area.

Jefferson County scored a victory when an Arvada woman admitted that her lawsuit against Commissioner Jim Congrove had no merit, county officials said Wednesday.

Kim Polomka may be the only person in Colorado Springs to ever request a pothole.

Sheriff's deputies responding to a domestic-dispute call Tuesday found a methamphetamine and hallucinogenic mushroom operation in Coal Creek Canyon south of Boulder.

A man grabbed a police officer's Taser outside a Lakewood Wal-Mart on Wednesday and then was shot by her partner, Lakewood police said.