Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wildfire activity picked up in Colorado over the weekend, with the Elk Fire consuming more than 2,000 acres since lightning ...

The lee and Elk wildfires bracketing the town of Meeker have grown to more than 75,000 acres combined, according to fire officials on Aug. 8. There was still no containment on either blaze in Rio ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At least four wildfires are burning on thousands of acres in western Colorado, and a fifth is on the verge of crossing into the state from Utah, fire ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Fire crews working across western Colorado made more progress containing and slowing the growth of several wildfires Friday. The largest fire of the bunch — ...

Four wildfires are burning on thousands of acres in western Colorado, prompting a slew of mandatory evacuations, and a fifth fire is approaching from Utah, federal officials said in Sunday morning ...

Colorado has declared a statewide disaster emergency as two dozen uncontained wildfires rage across the state. Gov. Jared Polis signed an executive order Aug. 14, declaring the disaster emergency, ...

Five wildfires continued to burn across Colorado’s Western Slope on Wednesday with minimal containment, although firefighters managed to prevent more large runs of fire growth and protected almost all ...

DENVER — Four fires burning on Colorado’s Western Slope have spread to more than 31,000 acres and forced ongoing evacuations, fire officials said Wednesday. Disaster declarations have been issued for ...

Wildfire activity picked up in Colorado over the weekend, with the Elk Fire consuming more than 2,000 acres since lightning sparked it on Aug. 1, according to the Rio Blanco County Sheriff’s Office.