When the Lee Fire jumped Colorado Highway 13 in Rio Blanco County on Aug. 6, the town of Meeker was under threat. Spreading ...

On Friday afternoon, a new wildfire started northeast of Meeker, called the Yellowjacket Fire. This fire has burned about 5 ...

A community meeting for the Lee and Elk fires will be held at 7 p.m. tonight at Meeker High School (550 School St.).

The Meeker Volunteer Fire Department was the first agency to respond to a wildfire that grew into one of the largest in state ...

Five homes and 14 outbuildings have been lost in rural Rio Blanco and Garfield counties due to the Lee and Elk fires.

Colorado’s Lee Fire has grown to 133,841 acres, making it the state’s fifth-largest wildfire. A new Yellowjacket Fire ...

New evacuations were called today in Garfield County, on the southern edge of the fire, close to Rifle. The fire is more than ...

A new fire that broke out Friday afternoon in southwestern Colorado briefly prompted mandatory evacuations as crews in other ...

Tuesday was the first time members of the media had the chance to visit the Lee Fire since its initial ignition date on Aug.

The Lee Fire near Meeker is now over 116,000 acres, fire maps show, and has surpassed the Spring Creek Fire of 2018 as the ...