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  • VW offering new diesel fuel caps

    May 23, 2013 3:55 AM

    VW is offering certain customers a friendly and potentially cost saving reminder. Volkswagen is replacing the fuel tank covers on more than 200,000 of its diesel vehicles sold in the U.S. and Canada. Dealers will put on a new fuel cap with yellow "diesel" lettering for free. The move... more »
  • Tips to improving your fuel efficiency

    March 2, 2012 8:20 AM

    Did you know there are things you can do to get the most miles for your fuel? As the price for gas continues to rise, drivers are now looking to improve their fuel efficiency. "Aggressive driving is a terrible gas waster," says Philip Reed from Edmunds.com, adding that, "It... more »
  • Berm set up to catch fuel

    March 31, 2011 1:57 PM

    A berm has now been set up near a tanker truck that is leaking fuel in Park County. The tanker truck is now reported to be carrying around 7,000 gallons of fuel. This happened a couple of miles from the town of Jefferson on County Road 77. There... more »
  • Hazmat crews respond to leaking fuel in Park County

    March 31, 2011 1:13 PM

    Hazardous materials crews have been called to Park County where a tanker truck is leaking fuel. The initial report says about 6,000 gallons of fuel is leaking into a water way a couple of miles from Highway 285 on Park County Road 77. This is near the town... more »
  • Toyota recalling 1.53 million cars globally

    October 21, 2010 8:13 AM

    Toyota is recalling 1.53 million Lexus, Avalon and other models, mostly in the U.S. and Japan, for brake fluid and fuel pump problems. Toyota said it will recall about 740,000 cars in the U.S. and 599,000 in Japan. The world's biggest automaker has recalled more than 10 million... more »
  • CSU study: Fuel from algae is ecofriendly

    September 27, 2010 7:12 PM

    FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - A Colorado State University study says turning algae into a biofuel is more environmentally friendly than the process for petroleum diesel or soy biodiesel. The study based its conclusion on the complete process for each fuel and included factors such as the amount of... more »
  • New clue in deadly Calhan plane crash

    August 25, 2010 2:02 PM

    A federal investigator says the propellers weren't working when a twin-engine Cessna crashed near Calhan Monday, killing both men aboard. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Jennifer Rodi says the Cessna 310 has been moved to a hangar in Greeley where the engines will be examined closely. Authorities say... more »
  • Beetle mitigation projects under way in Colorado

    August 6, 2010 8:23 AM

    Gov. Bill Ritter says the U.S. Forest Service is undertaking projects in the Routt, White River, and Arapaho and Roosevelt national forests to mitigate dangers from trees killed by pine beetles, but help from the private sector is still needed. Ritter and Colorado's senators spoke with Agriculture Secretary Tom... more »
  • Tanker truck burns on California highway

    May 28, 2010 2:59 PM

    Authorities say a tanker hauling thousands of gallons of fuel has overturned and is burning on a Southern California freeway. All lanes of Highway 91 are closed near Corona. The California Highway Patrol says the tanker crashed around 10:30 a.m. Friday on the freeway's eastbound lanes, about 50 miles... more »
  • Supreme Court questions ban of biotech alfalfa

    April 27, 2010 12:34 PM

    Supreme Court justices are questioning a lower court's decision that has prohibited biotech giant Monsanto Co. from selling genetically engineered alfalfa seeds, possibly paving the way for the company to distribute the seeds for the first time since 2007. The case has been closely watched by environmentalists and agribusiness. ... more »
  • Gas prices beginning to climb again

    March 8, 2010 8:47 PM

    On your last trip to the gas pump you may have noticed something. Over the weekend, Colorado and the rest of the nation saw a big increase in gas prices. State wide there's been about a 5 cent increase. But in Southern Colorado we saw even more. "In the last... more »
  • Iran warns West it will make its own nuclear fuel

    January 2, 2010 9:44 AM

    Iran is warning it will produce nuclear fuel on its own if there is no deal to have the West deliver the fuel in exchange for Tehran's enriched uranium by the end of January. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told state TV on Saturday the West must "make a decision" whether... more »
  • HIghway 50 reopens

    December 31, 2009 4:46 PM

    A possible Hazmat situation in eastern Pueblo County is over. State Patrol says they found no Hazardous materials at the scene at Highway 50 near Boone. The road was closed in both directions for three hours No one has been injured. more »
  • Colorado company looks to salvage Nebraska ethanol plants

    October 6, 2009 1:50 PM

    A Colorado-based company could be in the market for abandoned ethanol plants in Nebraska. Gevo Inc. of Englewood, Colo., would retrofit the plants to make an alternative fuel called biobutanol. A number of ethanol plants in Nebraska have either gone dormant or been abandoned mid-construction as the ethanol industry has... more »
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