March 25, 2022
A Colorado federal judge has given the OK to a $20 million settlement between the U.S. government and a 140-year-old mining railway that has been blamed for a devastating 2018 wildfire.
September 17, 2020
A scenic railroad company in southwestern Colorado that's been blamed for igniting a 2018 wildfire asked a federal judge on Wednesday to hold the planned trial not in Denver but in the area where the fire happened.
June 02, 2020
A railroad tourism company blamed for igniting a wildfire that burned more than 50,000 acres in Colorado must face the federal government's effort to recover the roughly $30 million it spent extinguishing the blaze, a federal judge has decided.
September 10, 2019
A railroad tourism company blamed for starting a wildfire last year in Colorado said it shouldn't have to face the federal government's effort to recover $25 million in damages, arguing that no law allows for the recovery of money spent fighting the fire.
July 02, 2019
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday sued a company that offers railroad rides to tourists, seeking to recover $25 million in damages related to a Colorado fire that officials blame on a locomotive throwing off a hot cinder and igniting a blaze that burnt a swath of national forest the size of Seattle.