Author: Kathleen Foody, Associated Press

A company that operates a historic railroad that carries tourists through southwestern Colorado’s mountains and forests was accused Tuesday in a lawsuit of causing one of the largest wildfires in state history. Federal investigators found that a coal-burning engine operated by the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad and American Heritage Railways threw cinders or…

A high school student charged in a classmate’s death during a school shooting in Highlands Ranch told police that he planned the attack for weeks and intended to target classmates who repeatedly mocked his gender identity. Written summaries of police interviews with the two suspected shooters portray 16-year-old Alec McKinney as the leader of the…

Two decades after the name “Columbine” became synonymous with a school shooting, the suburban Denver community surrounding the school is debating whether it’s time to tear down a building that also became a beacon for people obsessed with the killings. School officials said the number of people trying to get close to or even inside…

BOULDER ? A white Colorado police officer who pulled out his gun during a confrontation with a black man picking up trash around his dormitory resigned this week under an agreement that lets him collect $69,000 in salary despite violating department policies. Police body camera footage released Thursday provided a full video account of the…

HIGHLANDS RANCH – Nearly 2,000 people turned out Wednesday for a memorial service to honor the Colorado teenager who was killed while charging one of the two gunmen who opened fire inside a school and shot nine people just days before high school graduation. A line of Jeeps and trucks stretched along a Highlands Ranch…

JEFFERSON COUNTY – Community members marked the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting Saturday with a remembrance ceremony that celebrated the school’s survival and by volunteering at shelters, doing neighborhood cleanup projects and laying flowers and cards at a memorial to the 13 people killed. “We’re changed,” Dawn Anna, whose daughter Lauren Townsend…

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper in his office in the State Capitol in Denver on Dec. 3.David Zalubowski / AP A Colorado man sentenced to life in prison without a chance of parole for his involvement in a fatal 1995 carjacking as a teenager will be released next year, Gov. John Hickenlooper ordered Friday. The order…