Boulder County The Book

The firefighter whose fire pit is believed to have started the Fourmile Fire smelled smoke at a party in Gold Hill the night before reporting the blaze, according to an 80-page report released Thursday by the Boulder County Sheriff’s [...]

Lafayette is looking for volunteers to plant some 200 native shrubs Saturday morning at Flagg Park and Two Creeks Open [...]

Tuesday marked another record day of heat at the end of a long, dry summer.The mercury topped out at 90 degrees on Tuesday, according to Boulder meteorologist Matt Kelsch, one degree above the previous record for the date of 89 degrees, set in [...]

With three days left in September, the month is shaping up to be one of the hottest and driest on record for [...]

A third fatality on Longs Peak this summer makes this one of the deadliest years for the mountain. [...]

After feeling their way out of a smoke-filled building, searching while blinded for victims among obstacles and running up stairs wearing heavy fire gear, 24 University of Colorado students who participated Saturday in Boulder’s “Leadership Fire [...]

The group that last Halloween organized a revival of the Boulder “Mall Crawl” of the 1980s is back this fall with hopes of repeating last year’s massive but peaceful event on the Pearl Street [...]

Preparations are beginning Friday to move 500 prairie dogs from a 39-acre colony near Foothills Community Park in North Boulder to city-owned open space [...]

City officials said Wednesday they will need to eliminate an additional 27.7 full-time positions and make deeper cuts in the 2011 budget if voters reject the utility occupation tax on Nov. 2. [...]

The Boulder city manager extended the deadline Tuesday afternoon for existing medical marijuana businesses to apply for an operating license, citing massive confusion about the city’s [...]