Today's News

"I’m nervous about this tree,” said Evergreen resident Carol DeCrescentis.

She was standing beside a large pine tree next to the home on Keystone Drive where she and her husband, Fred, have lived since 2002. 

Doug Saba, fire and life safety educator for Evergreen Fire/Rescue, was with the couple, who had asked for help in preventing a possible wildfire from reaching their home. 

As Bob Weiner gets older, he shies away from running shorter distances and concentrates more on marathons, half marathons and 10ks. But the 48-year-old Evergreen resident wanted to work on his speed at the 2013 Freedom Run 5k.
He did more than that. He won the race.
A veteran of the annual 4th of July run from Evergreen Middle School to Nick’s Pro Fitness, Weiner held off a hard-charging Joey Villarreal of Aurora to win in a time of 16 minutes, 20 seconds. Villarreal was just 2 seconds behind.

A standoff between an armed man inside his home near Morrison and the Jeffco sheriff's SWAT team on Friday ended with the suspect being shot and taken to a hospital.

The standoff began Friday morning when the Sheriff's Office received a call about an incident of domestic violence in the 1200 block of West Grand Drive. The woman from the home was taken to the hospital for examination, while a man at the house, who hadn't been identified by press time, barricaded himself inside.

A wildfire that broke out Thursday afternoon on Lookout Mountain was declared contained about 5:30 p.m., according to the Jeffco Sheriff's Office.

Level 1 evacuation notices had gone out to 282 phones in the area as a result of the Beaver Brook Fire. The pre-evacuation notice was being lifted as firefighters did mop-up work.

The blaze was described as "small" but was near a neighborhood of homes in Cody Park, according to the Sheriff's Office.

Firefighters from Evergreen, Foothills, Genesee and Inter-Canyon were at the scene.