For years, hikers and mountain bikers in South Boulder have enjoyed sweeping vistas of the Flatiron mountains from the grassy expanse of the Marshall Mesa trailhead. It turns out they’ve also been ...

ROCK SPRINGS — Local documentarian Stephen Shea captured some action with his camera on Thursday, Dec. 4. According to Shea, Nucor and the Wyoming Abandoned Mine Land Division (AML) battled a stubborn ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BOULDER COUNTY — Poofs of smoke and coal ash wafted from a 30-foot pit on Marshall Mesa as an excavator the size of a small house scooped dirt and coal out ...

Crews tearing apart a 1.5-acre pile of coal mine refuse that has been smoldering for two decades recently uncovered a section which measured 300 degrees Fahrenheit. The Corley Mine Surface Burn ...

Heavy equipment is now at work at the Marshall Mesa Trailhead in Boulder County, digging and tossing and mixing and replacing. That is how a coal fire is doused. "Certainly based on its location, ...

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. — Colorado’s Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety is set to begin work next week to cool an underground coal mine near the Marshall Mesa in Boulder County. That mine closed ...