In Empire, the average annual cost of child care for two children — one 4 year old and one 8 year old — is $17,500, about $700 less than the comparable average of $18,193 across all of Colorado.

The town of Empire, Colorado, with a population under 500 people, recently went without running water for more than three weeks. Thankfully since then they've gotten the leak in the system ...

Court records show former Empire Police Deputy Chief Keith Sandford has criminal convictions going back to at least 1996. That didn't stop him from getting jobs in law enforcement in Idaho Springs ...