Posted 10:04 AM 2/10/2013 by Matt Stafford
FRASER, Colo. (AP) - Authorities say a charter bus filled with more than three dozen members of a Littleton church rolled off a snowpacked roadway west of Fraser, but the few reported injuries were minor. The Colorado State Patrol says the bus went off the side of Grand County Road 50 (More)
Posted 8:37 AM 2/7/2013 by JD Downing
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Colorado's snowpack has dropped to 72 percent of normal and time is running out to make up the difference.The Natural Resources Conservation Service, a federal agency that tracks the levels, says the below-average snowpack is producing a bleak water-supply outlook (More)
Posted 11:03 AM 2/5/2013 by Stephen Bowers
The risk for avalanches has been high in Colorado's Rocky Mountains. That has been reported on News 5 in the past few days.
In just the first four days of February, the Colorado Avalanche Information Center has record of 64 avalanches in the state. In at least two cases, people have been (More)
Posted 6:13 PM 1/25/2013 by Alyse Rzemek
COLONIE, N.Y. (AP) -- Authorities say a New York man who left his 1-year-old son in his car for eight hours in frigid weather only realized his mistake after a call from his wife.
Police in the Albany suburb of Colonie say the man forgot to drop off his son at day care and left the child (More)
Posted 12:25 PM 1/17/2013 by Lauren Molenburg
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Ever hit a mental whiteout pondering the difference between a winter storm watch and winter weather advisory?
The National Weather Service is looking at the idea that less is more when it comes to such jargon.
This winter, the federal forecasting agency is (More)
Posted 11:11 AM 1/14/2013 by Andy Koen
TELLER COUNTY - One person was taken to the hospital after a three car accident west of Crystola. The two pick up trucks and a silver sedan slid off of the highway and down an embankment between the north bound and south bound lanes.
State troopers say there were at least fifteen accidents along Hwy 24 this morning between Woodland Park and Manitou Springs.
Posted 6:21 PM 1/9/2013 by Matt Stafford
DENVER (AP) - Thirty of Colorado's 64 counties have been designated as primary natural disaster areas due to severe drought and heat, making farmers and ranchers there and in adjacent counties eligible for low-interest emergency loans from the Farm Service Agency. Agriculture (More)
Posted 10:13 AM 1/6/2013 by Matt Stafford
DENVER (AP) - The Natural Resources Conservation Service says Colorado's snowpack is still below average but improved significantly over the past month. Phyllis Ann Philipps, state conservationist with the service, says "conditions could have been much worse if we had not received the (More)
Posted 9:21 PM 12/29/2012 by Monica Gouty
NEW YORK (AP) - A widespread winter storm has dumped snow over the Northeast and parts of Ohio just days after the regions were hit by another storm moving from the nation's midsection.The National Weather Service expects up to a foot of snow in parts of southern New England. The (More)
Posted 5:09 PM 12/27/2012 by Andy Koen
COLORADO SPRINGS - In light of the recent winter storms, emergency managers in Colorado Springs are encouraging everyone to take the necessary steps to stay safe.
Ken Hughlett, the Emergency Management Coordinator for the Colorado Springs Office of Emergency Management says blizzards and (More)
Posted 9:57 AM 12/25/2012 by Matt Stafford
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Nasty weather is already complicating travel in parts of the U.S., with forecasts of snow, thunderstorms and more threatening a sloppy Christmas Day from Texas to Florida. In Oklahoma, authorities were already warning would-be travelers to stay home Tuesday as (More)
Posted 2:38 PM 12/23/2012 by Monica Gouty
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Northern California is slogging through another day of wet and windy weather as the second storm of the weekend moves through the region.After a bit of a break in the weather last night, the National Weather Service is predicting heavy rain and strong winds (More)