Jul. 3—WHITE HALL — No buildings were ablaze when the Pleasant Valley Volunteer Fire Department responded to a smoke investigation call near Fairmont last week. The incendiary simmering, instead, was ...

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Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Suzie Netti and her husband, Jay, were luckier than some of their neighbors when the Remington ...

FLORENCE, Colorado (KCNC) — Crews tearing apart a 1.5-acre pile of coal mine refuse that has been smoldering for two decades recently uncovered a section which measured 300 degrees Fahrenheit. The ...

Aug. 14—The state plans to start mitigation work this fall on the underground coal mine fire at the Lewis site, located northeast of the intersection of Marshall and Cherryvale roads in Boulder County ...

State officials say they plan to extinguish nine fires smoldering in underground coal seams in eastern Montana, including a 25-year-old blaze that sparked a large wildfire last year. The fires are ...