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LAS VEGAS — It’s becoming clearer that without trading a significant player off the current roster, it could be a pretty quiet week ahead for the Colorado Avalanche. The Avs signed Casey Mittelstadt to a three-year contract to kickstart their offseason. They can sign Mikko Rantanen to a long-term extension for the 2025-26 season and beyond once the calendar flips to July. But the math is the math, and the Avs don’t have room below the salary cap ceiling to make a big addition to the 2024-25 roster without removing someone who was important in 2023-24.

The Oak Ridge fire burning on more than 1,100 acres of U. S. Forest Service land in Pueblo County is the first on that area of land in more than 100 years, forest officials said Saturday. “This has allowed the area between the Junkens fire burn scar to the north and the Mason Gulch fire burn scar to the south to become overgrown and dense,” forest officials said in a Saturday update.

Leave it to the 2024 Rockies to make the White Sox look like the ’27 Yankees. The White Sox entered the weekend series with a major league-worst 22-61 record. Then they beat the reeling Rockies, 5-3, on Friday night at Guaranteed Rate Field. On Saturday, the Rockies’ once-promising afternoon quickly derailed into a train wreck.

By JOSH BOAK EAST HAMPTON, N. Y. (AP) — Jill Biden was right at her husband’s side Saturday as they exited Air Force One to head for a pair of campaign stops at luxurious vacation homes on Long Island. And she got straight to the point when it was her turn to introduce the president at a tony fundraiser. “Joe isn’t just the right person for the job.

Two people were killed Friday night in a suspected murder-suicide in Denver’s Hampden neighborhood, police said Saturday. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | 1,156-acre Oak Ridge fire is first to burn in area in over 100 years Crime and Public Safety | 2 brush fires spark in Littleton neighborhood Saturday, cause under investigation Crime and Public Safety | Man stabbed to death in northern Westminster Crime and Public Safety | Motorcyclist hospitalized in I-70 crash near Wheat Ridge Crime and Public Safety | Man killed in Green River rafting accident at Dinosaur National Monument Denver officers were conducting a welfare check Friday night in the 9600 block of East Girard Avenue when they found a man and a woman dead in the Hampden home, police said in a statement on social media. The two deaths are being investigated as a domestic-violence-related murder-suicide, police said.

Firefighters are investigating the cause of two fires that broke out in a Littleton neighborhood Saturday afternoon. Related Articles Colorado News | 1,156-acre Oak Ridge fire is first to burn in area in over 100 years Colorado News | Two dead in suspected murder-suicide in Denver’s Hampden neighborhood Colorado News | Man stabbed to death in northern Westminster Colorado News | Motorcyclist hospitalized in I-70 crash near Wheat Ridge Colorado News | Drivers fined $42 million in eight months for express lane violations South Metro Fire Rescue crews and officers from the Littleton Police Department responded to reports of two small fires burning bushes, trees and a fence in a Littleton neighborhood, according to a statement from the fire department on social media. South Metro crews were working to put out the two fires in the area of West Bowles Avenue and South Coventry Lane around noon.