Cripple Creek News

Colorado's budget woes could mean wage cuts for state workers, fewer tax breaks for businesses and less money for schools.

Ita s been a little over four months since the stakes went up for gamblers in Cripple Creek.

Aubrey and I escorted our last trip for 2009 when we took a bus load of people to Colorado Springs.

Photo Courtesy Frontier Historical Society In April 1897 Glenwood Springs was purportedly visited by an airship.

Colorado State Patrol says two people were injured in a multi-vehicle accident that is closing Highway 67 between Cripple Creek and Divide.

Northbound highway 67 is closed. NEWSCHANNEL 13 has confirmed there is a multi-vehicle accident on highway 67 north of Cripple Creek.

TELLER/EL PASO COUNTIES - Two Colorado Department of Transportation projects could impact traffic south of Divide this weekend and through Cascade on Monday.

Now that Colorado's mountain casinos have 24-hour gambling they're looking at providing 24-hour alcohol, after finding gaming action slows to a halt when the liquor stops flowing.

More than $600,000 has been withheld from winnings of deadbeat parents who gamble in Colorado in the first year of a controversial law that requires casinos to check whether big winners owe child support.

Suspects face upgraded charges in the Cripple Creek robberies. It happened on Sunday around 9:30 p.m. at two different locations.

Three suspects are behind bars Monday morning after a robbery and police chase in Cripple Creek over the weekend.

Cripple Creek visitors can win more than quarters and greenbacks this weekend. On Saturday and Sunday the "Wheel of Fortune" Wheel Mobile pulls into town to offer slots as contestants on the popular game show.

An emergency medical technician instructor at Pikes Peak Community College has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting at least two children, the Teller County Sheriff's Office said.

Trying to predict the fall color peak in Colorado can be as difficult as trying to predict the weather while one part of the state may be a panorama of red and gold, another may still be as green as June in mid-September. But this year, the choice of when to go is easy: Go see the aspens this weekend or you may miss your chance.

My wife and I are having a disagreement about the correct way to make a right turn near our home.

The latest development on "CSI: Cripple Creek" involves a missing donkey. Tarzan, a member of the town's storied donkey herd, has been missing for two weeks.

One of the donkeys that roams the historic mining town of Cripple Creek is recovering from a gunshot wound and another is missing.

Residents in Cripple Creek are outraged after one of the town's renowned donkeys was shot.

Throughout the day Monday, Colorado State Patrol says several cars slid off the roadway along State Highway 67 between Woodland Park and Cripple Creek.

Blasting operations by the Cripple Creek & Victor Mining Company will close State Highway 67 between Victor and Cripple Creek on Monday, September 21.