Clear Creek County News

One man received second- and third- degree burns over half his body and three homes were destroyed when a fire broke out early Thanksgiving morning in the mountain town of Dumont.

VIEW SLIDESHOW DUMONT - The Clear Creek County Sheriff says three homes caught on fire just south of Interstate 70 early Thursday morning.

Art is sometimes overlooked as a popular holiday gift, but a variety of locally produced creations are available in Boulder County shops, exhibits and galleries - and not just paintings that cost thousands of dollars.

Trudging up the seemingly endless boulderfield below the Mt. Lincoln ice, I couldn't help think how cyclical our pursuits of outdoor sports are.

Jayson Luber , 7NEWS Reporter POSTED: 4:21 am MDT October 15, 2009 UPDATED: 4:55 am MDT October 15, 2009 Guanella Pass Road in Clear Creek County that closed Aug.

Ricky Lee Harnish confessed, in a plea bargain, to the 1976 rape and murder of 16-year-old Holly Andrews.

A man has pleaded guilty to raping and stabbing a 16-year-old girl in 1976 in a plea deal that requires him to give an "honest and truthful" account of what happened to her.

A man was airlifted to a local hospital Sunday morning after spending the night in freezing temperatures in the wilderness.

Lake County Commissioners put the kibosh on Fifth District Attorney Mark Hurlbert's aim to let voters decide whether to extend his office's term limits from eight to 12 years.

The public is invited to a Colorado Department of Transportation open house regarding the upcoming bridge replacement project on Stanley Road, just west of Idaho Springs.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act may put seven people to work in forests in Larimer County.

Part of Guanella Pass Road in Clear Creek County that closed August 21st opened to traffic but remains closed between Georgetown and Grant.

An asphalt went off the road and into Clear Creek from the Westbound ramp of Interstate 70 onto U.S. Highway 6. CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, Colo.

Deputies are working with forest rangers to reach a group of hikers who called for help on Monday.

It's been 26 years this month since Lynn McLaughlin last saw her little sister, Beth.

Guanella Pass Road in Clear Creek County will be closed between Georgetown and the Clear Lake Campground until further notice, the U.S. Forest Service announced Friday.

New mutations arise within a population and those that confer some benefits to the organism increase in frequency and eventually become fixed in the population.

The allegations read like a disturbing novel. A man in his 40s has a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old boy.

Biologists have long known how adaptive evolution works. New mutations arise within a population and those that confer some benefits to the organism increase in frequency and eventually become fixed in the population.

Biologists have long known how adaptive evolution works. New mutations arise within a population and those that confer some benefits to the organism increase in frequency and eventually become fixed in the population.