Idaho Springs News

Prosecutors are upset after an Idaho Springs man who pleaded guilty after a hit-and-run accident that severely injured the victim and ended in a stand-off with authorities was sentenced to four years in a community corrections program.

Dig your bluegrass? Banjos and mandolins make your heart swell? Great. You're gonna love this shindig, two days of banjo goodness up in the hills: Clear Creek Rapidgrass is slated to go down on the first weekend of July at the Shelly/ Quinn Baseball Fields in Idaho Springs, on Friday, July 5 and Saturday, July 6. Keep reading for the full rundown, ... (more)

Chip Bair opened the first Beau Jo's location in downtown Idaho Springs on April 1, 1973 - a tiny 570-square-foot store with seating for only 15 people.

Families celebrate the return of three women held captive in Cleveland for a decade.

Federal, state and local dignitaries gathered in Idaho Springs on May 3 to mark the next major milestone in the Colorado Dept.

Major rock blasting has begun at the Twin Tunnels project near Idaho Springs, marking the start of long-overdue improvements to the Interstate 70 mountain corridor.

Only the very front of the 1905 Lake Gulch School remains. It is located near Central City and is the site of Gilpin County's first school.

With a bang - literally, a boom and a cloud of dust - major rock blasting began Friday on the Twin Tunnels project, signaling the start of major improvements to the traffic-choked Interstate 70 mountain corridor.

I'm not at all sorry I missed being an adult in the 1970s. There were terrible fashion trends with bell bottom pants and clogs with heels, and worse hairstyles with that feathered look; the porn was all sweaty and hairy, and the food trends were...well, Irma Rombauer's Joy of Cooking came out and fondue was a thing, so maybe the entire decade ... (more)

The Colorado Department of Transportation will be stopping traffic and closing I-70 at Fall River Road and Georgetown Hill next week beginning this Sunday, April 28 for rock scaling and fence installation, weather permitting.

Drivers on Interstate 70 may hit 20-minute delays when passing through the Georgetown and Idaho Springs areas this week as Colorado Department of Transportation crews conduct rockfall work.

The Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown and Gameroom Expo will draw gamers from the region for some old-school gaming.

A view of Echo Lake from the south side, near the Mount Evans Byway, looking north, on a snowy sojourn through the Mount Evans Recreation Area.

The year 1973 brought some good things: Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was released, the first mobile phone call was made, the original U.S. space station was launched, and homegrown Colorado chain Beau Jo's Pizza was born.

It's snowing where it counts right now, along I-70 from Vail to Loveland Pass, bringing another round of snow to the ski areas that remain open in Colorado .