CANON CITY - Deputies with the Fremont County Sheriff's office arrested their "most wanted" fugitive Tuesday. Matthew Lee Boyd, 36, escaped from a community corrections facilty in Pueblo last Thursday.
The sheriff's office say Boyd had a history of assaulting officers and was known to carry several knives with... more »
Fremont County employees will have their payday changed in April and many workers are worried the switch will leave them short changed.
County Manager George Sugars says the move has to do with timing. All 300 county employees are currently paid every other Friday for hours turned in the... more »
A specialized team of mountaineers are in western Fremont County scaling a cliff-side in with ropes and pulleys to remove loose rocks at the site of a massive rock slide from Monday.
The slide happened about two miles west of the town of Cotopaxi and is estimated to be... more »
A 2 year old Canon City boy died accidentally last week when he fell into the Arkansas river. That's the word tonight from Dr. Dorothy Twellman, the Fremont County Coroner.
Sean Marques was reported missing last Thursday. He was found less than a mile from home, under the ice... more »
It was the suddenness of the loss that has left so many in here shocked and broken hearted. Last week, Jessica Dunovsky, 18 and her sister Lacey, 14 were riding with friend Abelina Gallegos on a gravel road near Penrose when their jeep rolled. None of them survived.
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Fremont is one of six Colorado counties to receive a disaster declaration from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Fremont County experienced damaging frost and freezing temperatures on Oct. 8-11 of last year.
The other counties are all on the Western Slope, which saw a wet spring turn into... more »