Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A slow-growing, nearly contained wildfire burning on Colorado’s Western Slope is now the fourth-largest on state record, according to fire officials. As of ...

Every element that a wildfire needs in order to burn big, hot and fast converged in the northwestern corner of Colorado in early August. Persistent daytime temperatures neared record highs. Winds ...

DENVER — Wildfires that sparked across Colorado this year — whether by lightning or abandoned campfires — have together scorched more acres than the past four years combined, marking the worst ...