Suspected car thieves sped 100+ MPH on tire rims in tri-county chase
A pair of alleged car thieves are in custody after leading police on a high-speed chase across three counties, from Routt into Summit. It all went down late Tuesday. The two eluded cops east of Steamboat, sped from deputies in Kremmling, and then kept driving into Summit, even after their tires were popped. At one […]
Breck’s $3M turf upgrade at Kingdom Park (almost) finished
Town of Breckenridge is just about done laying nearly $3 million of artificial turf on the Kingdom Park ballfields. The north field has been finished since late August. The south field is getting its new turf this Friday. A week’s worth of Summit County Softball games on the south field were canceled for the delay. Otherwise, town […]
Xcel’s wildfire powerline settings are working, but leaving Colorado in the dark
Xcel Energy admits it has some work to do. The utility is spending nearly $3 billion this decade on equipment to prevent wildfires, but all this new tech leaves customers in the dark. “We need to do a better job educating the public on what these definitions mean and how they need to react to […]
Uptown 240 gets a new name. The new developer gets death threats.
Demolition begins soon on what’s left of Dillon’s disastrous Uptown 240 project. The blighted hole in the ground has a new name, Waterview Residences, and a new owner, Detroit developer Jake Porritt. His company, Porritt Group, bought the bankrupt property for nearly $13 million from disgraced developer Danilo Ottoborgo. Uptown 240 has been sitting dormant […]
Breck co-founder Sigurd Rockne, 91, shines at HoF induction
In a class including Lindsey Vonn and the fastest American on skis, Breckenridge co-founder Sigurd Rockne stole the show. Rockne (finally) joined the Colorado Snowsports Hall of Fame this weekend at the lush induction ceremony in Vail. He arrived with generations of family and other Summit celebs, like fellow co-founder Trygve Berge, also in his […]
Sheriff: Summit County schools not targets on threatening social media list
Authorities in the Colorado high country and nationwide are responding to social media threats made in the wake of last week’s deadly school shooting in Georgia. Several anonymous posts have named dozens of schools paired with threatening images, including firearms. Summit County schools are not on any of these lists, confirms Summit County sheriff Jaime […]
Once a Tiger, always a Tiger with athlete-turned-assistant AD Haleigh Lecklitner
Fall sports season is off with a roar at Summit High School. But what you see on the field is only half the story. Working hard behind the scenes is a former Summit High athlete, Haleigh Lecklitner, now in her first full year as assistant athletic director Summit High coaches and athletes with Krystal 93’s […]
Fire crews ‘vigorously’ attacking small wildfire burning north of Silverthorne
Fire crews are battling a small wildfire burning at the foot of the Gore Range north of Silverthorne. The fire was spotted around 3:30 p.m. by nearby homeowners at the end of Rock Creek Road, about 7 miles north of Silverthorne and two miles west of Highway 9. Initial reports estimated the fire was one […]
Summit’s ‘robot eye’ spots another wildfire with AI
A fleet of new AI-powered wildfire cameras in Summit County is two-for-two spotting fires before they spread. “That AI camera, Pano AI, is what found the fire last Sunday ten minutes before the first 911 call,” Summit Sheriff Jaime FitzSimons told Tom Fricke on the Krystal 93 mrning show. “It is amazing technology.” Sunday’s fire […]
Trail of the Week: Peaks Trail
The Peaks Trail is a Summit County classic. It’s a point-to-point trail from Breckenridge to Frisco or vice versa, running parallel to the Tenmile Range, offering fantastic wooded hiking and biking. There are also a few points where the trees thin out and you get excellent views of Lake Dillon. This is a longer trail, […]