Linda Hoffmann is on tap to become the next Larimer County manager. The county commissioners announced late Wednesday afternoon that Hoffmann was their choice to succeed Frank Lancaster as manager.

Smoke filled Poudre Canyon as gusty winds drove the large Hewlett Fire in the direction most feared: south, toward homes along the Poudre River.

County environmental health officials are warning area residents to be cautious about exercising in the smoke blanketing the Fort Collins area from the Hewlett Fire.

Larimer County received better marks than much of the state in several categories in the most recent Colorado Health Report Card.

What was once devastating pain — the loss of a beloved Fort Collins high school teacher at the beginning of 2011 — has since transformed into hope for local families battling cancer.

Volunteers are fanning out across Fort Collins this week and next to count and survey trail users so city planners can figure out where to build more trails and what they should look like.

May marks national bike month as the country celebrates with various two-wheeled events. Fort Collins is gearing up for its own bike summer events set to start next month with the 25th annual bike to work event.

Dave Woodridge, left, and son Jason, 14, right, get ready to fish with Riley Micallef, center, 16, and his father, Charlie, all from Fort Collins, at Long Pond in north Fort Collins on afternoon.

Dozens of firefighters carrying axes and chainsaws hiked single-file up miles of steep, rocky terrain into towering clouds of smoke Tuesday on the north side of Poudre Canyon.

A long-planned regional crime lab cleared a hurdle Tuesday when the Larimer County commissioners approved an intergovernmental agreement that would build a facility.

Neil Gluckman, the longtime Larimer County assistant manager, has been named interim county manager until a new manager comes on board. Two finalists for the county manager's post are scheduled to be interviewed by the county commissioners today.

With smoke from the Hewlett Gulch Fire visible from Fort Collins, the Larimer County commissioners agreed Tuesday to extend the county's fire restrictions another 30 days.

As flames burned the hillsides above their homes, residents of this close-knit community swang into action. Some, in their roles as volunteer firefighters, hiked toward the flames, hoping to contain them before they burned further.

It's a commercial rafting company's worst nightmare: a river facing record-low flows from a spring that came in like a lamb and looks to be leaving like a mouse.

Preliminary scores show that 82.3 percent of Poudre School District's third-graders read at or above grade level, based on the Transitional Colorado Assessment Program, the test commonly known as TCAP that replaced the former CSAP tests.

More than 1,000 miles away, in a state that's battling worse economic conditions than Colorado, Michael Martin was listening Tuesday to legislators in Baton Rouge, La., struggle.

It's going to be a sunny day in Fort Collins, with a high of 80 degrees and some gusty winds, according to the National Weather Service.

The company involved in an April public health emergency for drilling atop an old landfill near Windsor will likely not be fined by state oil and gas regulators.

A last-ditch effort by Colorado's governor to give gay couples rights similar to married couples in the state has failed. Republicans on Monday rejected civil unions legislation during a special session that Gov.

A wildfire up Poudre Canyon west of Fort Collins burned roughly 260 acres, climbing out of a gulch along steep mountain pines before emitting a fireball from a summit 1,000 feet above Poudre Park. Crews of hotshot wildfire fighters with the U.S.