Canon City News

Inmates who were evacuated from a prison in Canon City due to a wildfire near the Royal Gorge Bridge are returning to their cells.

A 28-year-old man was arrested in Canon City on suspicionof felony menacing and attempted aggreavated robbery on June 11. Riley Munoz Zaragoza was arrested after officers were called to the Holiday Motel, 1502 E. Main St., on a report of an assault.

As a tribute to the great loss at the Royal Gorge Bridge from the Royal Gorge Fire, Fremont Center for the Arts has been asked to accumulate and present a Wall of Royal Gorge memories.

With 10 days to go in its Kickstarter campaign to raise $150,000 for new digital movie projectors, the Denver Film Society is almost at the halfway point.

Just more than a week after the Royal Gorge Fire started, the Royal Gorge Whitewater Festival will get under way on Friday with the goal of getting people involved in the events and having a good time.

To attract tourists, Sally Jo Wilkins takes a ride on Blizzard on CR3 Saturday after the Royal Gorge Fire swept through the gorge.

She was making sausage rolls for her son, who is bringing her granddaughter to visit, when a friend stopped by.

Dist. 1 Canon City Councilman Daryl Robinson has tendered his resignation to the Council effective immediately following the regular council meeting today at 6 p.m. Robinson, 53, moved to Canon City in 2003 from Colorado Springs.

The number of wildfires former Hays resident Shane Coyne has battled is in the triple digits, he said.

Cindy Collins of the Royal Gorge Route Railroad, right, welcomes Brad and Elena Collins of Bermingham, Ala., aboard the passenger train Saturday just before it departed for its first trek through the gorge since it was evacuated Tuesday because of the Royal Gorge Fire.

A close-up look at the Royal Gorge Fire burn area as it was Friday. Sheriff Jim Beicker escorted Canon City Daily Record reporters on the tour of the south side of the Royal Gorge.

A MODIS image of the Black Forest Fire on June 12, 2013 from the Terra Satellite.

Dad talked me down Thursday night and said Friday's ride wouldn't be so bad. He said that the climbing would be like Thursday's gentle but long uphill .

Stewart and Dennis Vettese have been on the Ride The Rockies tour this week and will finish the last leg today before returning home to Canon City.

With several uncontrolled wildfires burning up and down the Front Range, you'd think elected officials would find a better time to play politics -- particularly when their arguments are easily snuffed.

Visitors and employees leave the Royal Gorge Bridge park as smoke billows skyward Tuesday afternoon, June 11, 2013, from a fire near the gorge in western Fremont County west of Canon City, Colo.

Michael's on Main Manager Kevin Holdridge, from left, Bill Walker, Mike Meloni, Timber Hindman, Steven Phillips and Chef John Bouche make sandwiches for the Royal Gorge Fire firefighters on the front line.

All evacuations have been lifted in connection with the wildfire burning near Royal Gorge Park.

The Ride the Rockies bicycle tour will come through Ca?n City and Colorado Springs despite two major wildfires, though on a different route than originally planned.

They don't know how the Black Forest and Royal Gorge fires will affect their tourism season - the time from Memorial Day to Labor Day when some businesses take in 50 percent of the year's revenue.