Georgetown News

We awaken to snow. The first big snow, which I love as much as I hate the snows that will follow, when the magic becomes ordinary and the ordinary becomes tiresome.

Devil's Thumb is barely visible looking west from Boulder as clouds move in, bringing much cooler temperatures and a chance of rain and snow.

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.

Share + Oct 14, 2009 7:44 pm US/Mountain GEORGETOWN, Colo. 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.

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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 truck crashed into Clear Creek on Thursday. One man is dead after an asphalt truck landed in Clear Creek on Thursday.

Xcel Energy, Inc., Public Service Company of Colorado, RPI Coating, Inc., and two men were indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver late Friday on charges that the defendants violated workplace safety and health rules and regulations that resulted in the death of five men at the Cabin Creek Hydro Plant, near Georgetown, Colo.

Xcel Energy, Inc., Public Service Company of Colorado, RPI Coating, Inc., and two men have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver late August 27 on charges that the defendants violated Occupational Safety and Health Administration workplace safety and health rules and regulations that resulted in the death of five men at the Cabin Creek ...

Two companies and two executives have been indicted on federal charges in the deaths of five workers in a fire inside a tunnel at a Colorado hydroelectric plant.

A mass of rocks threatening to fall on Guanella Pass Road has forced the indefinite closure of a 6-mile stretch of the pass west of Georgetown to Clear Lake Campground.

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.

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Jun 27, 2009 2:34 pm US/Mountain Reporting Stan Bush GEORGETOWN, Colo. Click to enlarge 1 of 1 Nearly all of the Georgetown Loop's history has been punctuated by the sound of steam, but for the last two years the railroads trademark engine has sat in pieces.

Working 1,000 feet above Interstate 70, John Vincent of Yenter Companies erects "attenuators" that are designed to slow down tumbling boulders.

This year, the Colorado Historical Society and partner organizations celebrate Archaeology and Historic Preservation Month with "Grand Sesquicentennial Celebrations" showcasing the 150th birthday of several Colorado communities that started out as mining camps.

Apr 24, 2009 2:52 pm US/Mountain Reporting Stan Bush GEORGETOWN, Colo. All the freezing and thawing and moisture this week has increased the danger of rock slides.

INTERSTATE 70, Colorado - Traffic on Interstate 70 on Georgetown Hill will be stopped for about 20 minutes throughout the day on Wednesday and Thursday while crews do rockslide prevention work.

This week's forecast warm-up is expected to increase the risk of mud and rock slides in Colorado's high country.

Colorado transportation officials on Saturday reopened a lengthy section of Interstate 70 that was closed overnight, stranding hundreds of travelers, by a storm that dumped more than 3 feet of snow in the region west of Denver.

A winter storm warning remained in effect for parts of the state, the National Weather Service said.

More than 500 people had spent the night at three shelters in Idaho Springs and Georgetown after the closure of the 80-mile stretch of I-70 in the mountains, said Jim Rettew, an American Red Cross spokesman.