A catastrophe report has found that the US re/insurance sector is on the hook for more than half of the total economic loss in April resulting from severe convective weather such as thunderstorms and tornados.

The massive hail storm that pummeled the northern Front Range a year ago generated nearly $900 million more in damage than first estimated, as claims from homeowners doubled in the months that followed.

Five weeks later, Tiffany Harris says her Littleton home still smells like skunk. "I’ll never forget it. It was 6 a.m. on a Sunday morning and I woke up because my sheets suddenly smelled like skunk," she said.

The driver of a stolen tractor-trailer in Colorado deliberately rammed into vehicles and caused numerous injuries before finally being taken into custody by police, who fired on the rig in an effort to stop the rampage, authorities said Sunday.

Consider what happened over the weekend inside the downtown Denver jail equal parts unusual and awkward. With a warrant in hand, Denver police officers walked into the jail looking for a suspect in an insurance fraud case on Saturday.

Although the actual cause of last week’s more than 42,000-acre grass fire in southern El Paso County hasn’t been determined, authorities said Saturday that it was started by a person.

Nine vehicle were damaged in a pileup caused by a speeding semitruck on Tuesday, the Greeley Police Department said.

I-76 was shut down both ways on Tuesday afternoon after a pileup in the westbound lane. The incident took place about four miles west of Fort Morgan after a strong gust of wind created extremely low visibility.

The strong winds are gone, but many people across the Denver metro area will be spending Wednesday cleaning up the damage the 70 and even 80 mph gusts left behind.

A large wildfire burning mostly in southern El Paso County has torched about 41,000 acres, destroyed 23 homes and forced the evacuation of about 1,000 residents.

Several homes and other structures were damaged or destroyed in several wildfires that ravaged Colorado’s Front Range Tuesday, including one that continued to spread in El Paso County Tuesday evening into Pueblo County, where it threatened the Pueblo Chemical Depot.

Nearly 207 million eggs from a farm in North Carolina are being recalled from nine U.S. states after 22 people fell ill, the federal Food and Drug Administration has said.

A wildfire that destroyed at least two homes in southern Colorado was sparked by an Army aviation training exercise that used live ammunition, the military said Monday.

A three-alarm fire raced through an apartment construction site in the North Capitol Hill neighborhood Wednesday, killing one person and forcing panicked construction workers to jump from the second and third floors to escape the flames.

Firefighters have fully contained a 377-acre brush fire that broke out Sunday morning south of Kiowa, burning four homes.