Unemployment in Colorado increased in April for the first time in three months, rising slightly to 7.9 percent from 7.8 percent January-March. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment said that despite the increase, unemployment for April 2012 is still lower than it was a year ago, when the state's unemployment rate was 8.4 percent.

Earlier this week, when we published our list of the ten most notable people to die in Colorado , we asked you to let us know if we'd forgotten anyone -- and thank goodness you did, because we made a number of hefty oversights.

More than 50 homes were evacuated on Thursday. The fire has grown from 1.5 square miles to 8 square miles in the last day as erratic wind gusts of up to 50 mph moved into the area fueled by thunderstorms that didn't produce rain.

Jurors are set to begin deliberating the fate of John Edwards on Friday, weighing nearly four weeks of testimony and evidence from the former presidential candidate's corruption trial.

Federal authorities have rejected a Colorado entrepreneur's request for a rehearing on his project to build a Flaming Gorge pipeline and divert Colorado River Basin water from Wyoming to Colorado.

The Colorado Mining Association today petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the nation's rule for protecting 58.5 million acres of roadless public forests - mostly in Western states.

A chapter of the South's desegregation struggle was resurrected Thursday as members of the 1970s group known as the Wilmington 10 requested pardons from North Carolina's governor, nearly 40 years after their trials.

A group pushing for stronger Colorado rules on how far oil and gas drilling must be from buildings says there are 199 active and proposed wells within 2,000 feet of public schools in Adams, Boulder, Broomfield and Weld counties.

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. Fire officials have ordered mandatory evacuations for residents living near a wildfire burning near a scenic canyon in northern Colorado.