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• Chimney Rock to be named national monument

  September 19, 2012 8:38 PM

  DENVER (AP) - President Barack Obama's administration is creating a national monument at a dramatic rock formation in southwestern Colorado that is surrounded by the Southern Ute Indian Reservation. Senator Michael Bennet's office on Wednesday confirmed a report in The Denver Post that said the move to preserve 4,700 acres... more »

• Body of woman struck by rock recovered

  July 4, 2011 6:28 AM

  Authorities say a Denver woman who was killed on Mount Princeton was struck by a large boulder that was dislodged in a storm. The Chaffee County coroner said Saturday that 30-year-old Deanna Miller died Thursday of massive internal chest injuries. The death was ruled accidental. Authorities say Miller... more »

• I-70 back open near Georgetown

  April 5, 2011 7:12 PM

  GEORGETOWN, Colo. (AP) - A 25-mile stretch of Colorado's main east-west highway is open again after being closed since morning while crews removed unstable boulders from a mountainside that were threatening to tumble onto traffic 300 feet below. State transportation officials say crews were able to remove all the... more »

• Five homes to be evacuated during I-70 rock removal

  March 30, 2011 5:12 PM

  BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. (AP) - A 30-mile stretch of Colorado's main east-west highway will be closed and five homes will be evacuated while crews use a helicopter to remove about 40 rocks - some as big as a car - from above the road. Officials say the boulders on a... more »

• CDOT rolls rocks, but the going is slow

  February 18, 2011 6:51 PM

  CDOT work crews continue to spend long days breaking up rocks and hauling them away, but the going is slow at a rock slide one mile west of Cotopaxi. Highway 50 has been blocked since Monday by an estimated 7,000 tons of rocks. That's enough to fill 30 average-size... more »

• Rock removal continues near Cotopaxi

  February 17, 2011 3:05 PM

  Rock removal continues on Highway 50 west of Cotopaxi to remove rubble from a rock slide that happened Monday. Crews worked until sundown yesterday and all morning trying to break the larger boulders into smaller pieces so they can be hauled away. Workers are using drills and blasting... more »

• Rock slide closes Highway 50 near Cotopaxi

  February 14, 2011 7:34 PM

  A rock slide, described as "massive" by a local official, has closed Highway 50 in western Fremont County. Highway 50 parallels the Arkansas River from the Royal Gorge to Salida. The slide area is just west of the small town of Cotopaxi. The road is expected to be... more »

• Newspaper seeks identity of teen implicated in girl's death

  October 28, 2010 2:52 PM

  FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - An attorney for the Colorado Press Association says prosecutors should release the name of a boy charged in a girl's death in a rock fall and why he was charged. Attorney Steve Zansberg says Larimer County prosecutors have to release the information because the... more »

• Boy charged in death of girl hit by rock in Colo.

  October 27, 2010 8:31 AM

  FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - A boy is facing a manslaughter charge in the death of a Michigan girl who died when a rock hit her in the northern Colorado resort town of Estes Park. Larimer County prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against the boy, whose name wasn't released because... more »

• Rock slide kills Colorado hiker

  September 29, 2010 8:29 AM

  A 30-year-old man has died from injuries after he was caught in a rock slide while hiking in southwestern Colorado. San Miguel County Coroner Robert Dempsey said John Arthur Merrill of Cortez was climbing El Diente Peak in the San Juan Mountains when he was injured. Another hiker saw... more »

• Hwy 24 roadwork underway

  September 13, 2010 9:04 AM

  Rock slides closed Highway 24 west of Colorado Springs twice at the end of summer. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is tackling the problem with rock mitigation operations on Ute Pass this week. The work began Monday morning. It should take two weeks. This week westbound Hwy 24... more »

• Delays expected west of Manitou Springs next week

  September 10, 2010 5:12 PM

  Rock removal from steep slopes along Highway 24 west of Manitou Springs will cause traffic delays for the next few weeks. Starting on Monday, September 13, and continuing through Friday, September 17, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., westbound U.S. 24 will be closed to traffic and eastbound U.S.... more »

• Golfer's swing snags rock, sparks fire in California

  August 31, 2010 4:33 PM

  Forget "Fore!" "Fire!" was the cry of the day for a golfer whose off-target swing sparked a 12-acre blaze in Southern California. The golfer at the Shady Canyon Golf Course in Irvine landed a shot in the rough Saturday. On his next swing, his club snagged a rock,... more »

• Hwy. 24 closure today for rock removal

  August 11, 2010 9:31 AM

  After rock slides partially closed US Highway 24 twice in successive weeks, damaging some vehicles but causing no injuries, the Colorado Department of Transportation is taking the unusual step of closing the highway to remove rocks. The closure is today, beginning at 9:30 am. They hope to reopen the... more »

• Rock slide closes one lane of Highway 24

  August 9, 2010 5:58 PM

  A rock slide has forced the closure of one westbound lane of Highway 24 near Manitou Springs. The slide happened Monday afternoon near near Cave of the Winds. Work crews are trying to clear the slide. Twitpic photo from Doug Leavy. more »

• Volunteers needed to build Colorado hiking trail

  July 12, 2010 12:38 PM

  The Colorado Trail runs 500 miles--from Denver to Durango. That's a lot of maintenance. The Colorado Trails Foundation uses volunteers to maintain and improve the Trail. More than a dozen work crews are being assembled this summer to wield axes and shovels, and haul rocks and dirt. Sound like... more »

• Rock Ledge Ranch gears up for July 4th

  June 22, 2010 1:42 PM

  Rock Ledge Ranch plans an old-fashioned Fourth of July with picnics, music and historic speeches. Hear Abraham Lincoln recite the Gettysburg Address, General William Jackson Palmer read the Declaration of Independence, Katherine Lee Bates talk about her inspiration for "America the Beautiful," or visit a Civil War encampment. ... more »

• Free concert Saturday at Pueblo Nature Center

  June 9, 2010 9:49 AM

  Have you seen the forecast for this weekend? High temperatures in the 70s! What a relief after the hot weather we've been enduring. Here's a great way to get outdoors and enjoy yourself--a free concert at the Pueblo Nature Center Saturday evening. Bruce Hayes plays Rhythm & Celtgrass music,... more »

• Man attacks 2 women on Durango river trail

  May 17, 2010 8:36 AM

  Durango Police are looking for a man suspected of assaulting women on a riverside trail. Police say Alan Nastacio, 23, is a suspect in separate assaults earlier this month on the Animas River Trail. In the first incident, a woman told police she was touched inappropriately on May 6.... more »

• Rock dropped from I-25 overpass

  March 22, 2010 6:51 PM

  A Walsenburg woman reported Monday afternoon someone dropped a rock on her car from an overpass, cracking her windshield. Kelly Mallery-Coulter said she was driving around 75 miles an hour when she saw three men on an overpass at mile marker 49. When she came out the other side... more »

• Woman uses a rock to fight off abduction attempt

  March 22, 2010 9:51 AM

  Police say a 66-year-old Massachusetts woman fought off a man trying to abduct her by bashing him in the face repeatedly with a rock and forcing him to flee with blood pouring from his wounds. Police in Fall River, about 50 miles south of Boston, say the woman was warned... more »

• One lane in both directions to open soon on I-70

  March 11, 2010 11:49 AM

  Workers are getting ready to reopen Interstate 70 in western Colorado, three days after a rock slide tore gaping holes in an elevated section and littered the highway with boulders. State officials say workers are patching holes, repairing drainage and clearing away snow in Glenwood Canyon Thursday morning. ... more »

• Astronomers find first rocky planet outside solar system, but it's hot

  September 16, 2009 10:01 AM

  Astronomers have found more than 300 planets outside our solar system but none of them have been proven to be solid until now. A team of European astronomers has confirmed that a planet discovered earlier this year about 500 light years away is more than a big gas ball. One... more »

• CDOT tests new traction material on I-25

  September 15, 2009 7:57 PM

  The Colorado Department of Transportation is testing a new road material that could improve safety on curvy sections of I-25. The material is called crushed flint rock--it has a texture similar to sand paper and it's designed to give drivers more traction on the road. On Monday and Tuesday, CDOT... more »

• Rockslides at the mine scar

  September 13, 2009 9:59 PM

  Last December the Pike View Quarry had a major rockslide that shut down operations at the enormous mine. Sunday evening, another rockslide created havoc on the mountain. "Apparently with all of the rain we've had, mother nature isn't done yet." says Mac Shafer with Transit Mix Aggregates. The heavy... more »