Pinecliffe News

Kayla Quintana, 10, uses cardboard Friday to slide down the back of a 2005 Pontiac Grand Am buried in snow in front of her family's house near Colorado Boulevard and Cornell Avenue.

The foothills west of Denver got the heaviest snow in this week's autumn snow storm.

Strong winds in northeastern Colorado prompted a Blizzard Warning for that part of the state at midday Thursday, as snow continued to fall on the Front Range.

Pam North Gilpin County The Gilpin County Board of County Commissioners held their regular meeting at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 20, at the County Courthouse.

Jun 6, 2009 6:32 pm US/Mountain GILPIN CO., Colo. Click to enlarge 1 of 2 An old picture of the Winks Lodge in Gilpin County.

Barbara Lawlor GILPIN COUNTY Last Friday, Timberline Fire Authority firefighters responded to a report of a structure fire on Colorado 72 and arrived in time to douse the flames and keep the fire from spreading throughout the house.

The powerful spring storm clobbering Colorado will continue to drop a mixture of rain and snow on the state until the evening, forecasters say.

An update to the totals I posted yesterday - there are now so many high snowfall reports coming in from Colorado NWS Spotters that I can only list those amounts over 30 inches.

The Colorado National Guard has delivered two truckloads of cots, blankets and food to hundreds of travelers stranded by a spring storm that dropped more than 3 feet of snow on the foothills west of Denver.

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 spent the night at three shelters after the closure of the 80-mile stretch of I-70 in the mountains, said Jim Rettew, an American Red Cross spokesman.