Rocky Mountain News

Dry conditions and the prospect of wildfires have prompted several Colorado counties to impose fire restrictions.

Almost 1,000 Jefferson County residents attended a rally to support two education initiatives on Wednesday.

Howard Dean strode up the steps inside the Pepsi Center and stood before five rows of hard hats to thank them for their work and to issue a plea punctuated by a small chuckle.

Reed Sundine, of Parker, was ready when 6th Congressional District Republican candidate Wil Armstrong came up the driveway.

The county assessor lists the house as 11/2 stories, three bedrooms, two baths, built in 1907 and purchased in 2004 for $306,000.

The eatery known as Brooklyn's at the Pepsi Center will take on a new moniker during the Democratic National Convention - the CNN Grill.

The Aurora Planning Commission handed about 30 senior citizens a small victory Wednesday.

Active duty with the U.S. Marines was eight years behind him when Mike Coffman was called back in 1991 for the first Gulf War.

Something was odd. Might have been the emu oil. Might have been the horsehair raku pottery. Might have been the upscale s'mores getting gooey in the sun when usually that's the province of month-old chewing gum.

The federal program to compensate sick nuclear weapons workers needs a complete overhaul, Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., said Wednesday.

Four unions spent $245,000 for a TV ad that attacks congressional candidate Jared Polis' record when he served on the state Board of Education.

News and notes from around Colorado

Early Tuesday morning, Lolita Prater, 17, helped her boyfriend push a Ford Explorer from her sleeping parents' Woodmoor driveway for what was supposed to be a joy ride. It ended tragically hours later when Prater was pronounced dead after the vehicle she was driving rolled on a Black Forest road.

A 1-year-old Jefferson County boy was injured Wednesday when he ran out to greet his grandfather, who was parking his tow truck in the driveway.

A small plane crashed Wednesday in a field near Vance Brand Airport in Longmont, but no one was hurt.

An additional count of felony child abuse causing serious bodily injury was added Wednesday against a Johnstown teen accused of beating a 7-year-old girl to death while acting out the video game Mortal Kombat.

An asphalt roller fell over and trapped a man for 15 minutes Wednesday in Westminster.

Fort Collins police have ramped up their investigation into the kidnapping Saturday of a woman at gunpoint, allegedly by her former boyfriend, as she was leaving the Dollar Tree Store where she worked.

Voters could see another FasTracks measure on the ballot a year or two down the road, but it might be a move to kill the overbudget transit program rather than a tax hike to bail it out.

Lightning moving through northwestern Colorado on Tuesday and Wednesday ignited 14 fires in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties, including a 100-acre blaze that may prove beneficial to Bureau of Land Management land northwest of Maybell.