Some living trees in the Uncompahgre measured 9% moisture this summer — drier than the legal limit for kiln-dried lumber. So why did the Gold Mountain Fire leave some whole hillsides untouched? KVNF news rode up Owl Creek Pass to find out, and the answer turns out to be a tree.

The Montrose County School Board continued Superintendent Dr. Carrie Stephenson’s paid leave and dismissed a grievance she filed against the board during its meeting Tuesday night.

The Gold Mountain Fire has grown by a single acre in ten days, and evacuation zones are slowly standing down. But crews are still on the mountain undoing their own fire lines — and the burn scar will be a dangerous place to walk for months.

This summer's vast wildfires have left many Coloradans wary. And that fear shows up not just in how we react to wildfires—but in the words we use to describe them.

Montrose residents, first responders, and local officials lined San Juan Avenue yesterday to honor Nicholas Dale, a helicopter pilot who died while battling the Gold Mountain Fire, as a procession escorted his body through the city.

When the Gold Mountain Fire threatened Second Chance Humane Society, emergency fosters evacuated every animal within three hours.

Days ago it was the Ouray County Fairgrounds. Now it's a town of nearly a thousand people, a kitchen serving 900 breakfasts a day, its own medics, showers, laundry and security. KVNF's Brody Wilson and Audrey McCabe, go inside the incident command post for the Gold Mountain Fire.

KVNF is reading up-to-date information on the Red Rock Fire burning in Ouray County live on air.Tune in to 90.1 or 88.9 in Ridgway for current information.