Ordway News

Governor Bill Ritter declared June 21 - 27, 2009, Colorado Lightning Safety & Wildfire Awareness Week, noting that the key to understanding the dangers of lightning and wildfire is education and awareness.

This means that, as there are more families in need of occasional help with such basics as food, clothing, shelter and utilities, there are fewer families able to provide that assistance.

A sixteen-year-old girl from Olney Springs has died and three others, including a three-year-old boy are seriously injured after a car wreck Sunday evening.

It's been one year since a devastating fire swept through the town of Ordway. As residents continue to rebuild their lives, they're also paying tribute to two firefighters killed in the fire.

A former employee at a veterans nursing home in Pueblo has received a two-year deferred sentence for mistreating a Medal of Honor recipient in his care.

A Peyton woman whose interests exemplify the area's agricultural past and is planning a future in broadcast journalism will reign over the fairgrounds in Calhan this summer as queen of the 2009 El Paso County ...

The pilot killed while fighting the Ft. Carson fire in April was afraid the winds were too strong.

A pilot killed this spring while fighting a fire in Fort Carson repeatedly warned officials that winds were too strong but was urged by officials to push on, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded.

The Lower Arkansas Valley has had its share of life-threatening emergencies in recent years requiring extraordinary response from medical providers.

James Peters, 84, died Wednesday at St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center from injuries he sustained the day before in a one-vehicle accident in his native Crowley County.

Updated: CROWLEY COUNTY - Everyone evacuated due to the Ordway fire has been allowed to return to their homes and the fire is fully contained.

The city of New Brighton, and shop owners tucked away in Main Street Village, hope that the long-awaited opening of a U.S. Post Office retail branch nearby will, in effect, turn the L-shaped development inside ...