Fire officials reported additional progress toward containing western Colorado’s five wildfires through the morning of July 22, with three of the fires more than 50% contained. The five blazes have ...

Firefighters battling wildfires across the Western Slope are making gradual progress slowing fire growth and increasing containment, officials said Saturday. Four of the state’s actively growing ...

The wildfires that started in Rio Blanco County have forced more evacuations as the damage wrought by this season’s wildfires approaches 190,000 acres. Three of the eight largest fires in the state ...

Fire crews working across western Colorado made more progress containing and slowing the growth of several wildfires Friday. The largest fire of the bunch — the Turner Gulch fire near Gateway — was 34 ...

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 ...

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.

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, Colo. — The Lee Fire burning southwest of Meeker was downgraded in size Wednesday after fire officials said better mapping lead to a better estimate of the fire size. On Monday, fire officials ...