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If the Colorado Avalanche ever has a full allotment of healthy forwards during the 2024-25 season, it could be the best group in the NHL. For now, the word “if” is doing a lot of work in that sentence. The Avs begin training camp Thursday, and the expectation is that captain Gabe Landeskog and jack-of-all-trades Artturi Lehkonen won’t be ready while they recover from injuries.

The Nuggets are hiring former Denver Post reporter Mike Singer as director of intelligence and strategy as they make a series of front office hires and promotions before the 2024-25 NBA season, a league source told The Denver Post. Singer served as the Nuggets beat writer at The Post for five seasons until he left the newspaper in 2023, two months after covering the franchise’s first championship.

Breckenridge has come up with a novel way of informing out-of-town leaf-peepers about the status of fall foliage in Summit County with a new online feature that went live Monday. The Breckenridge Tourism Office will post fall foliage photos every other day on its Leaf Brief page, which can be found at gobreck.com.

The Pearl fire burning in Larimer County has charred 138 acres and crews have made no progress in containing the wildfire, officials said Tuesday. Larimer County sheriff’s officials said Tuesday the wildfire sparked on private property west of Fort Collins around 11 a.m. Monday and was human-caused, though no suspects have been publicly identified. As of Tuesday afternoon, the rough boundaries of the mandatory evacuation zone included Green Mountain to the north, Sheep Creek and Red Feather Lakes to the east, Poudre Canyon Road to the south and Middle Mountain to the west. The Lake Erie and Mitchell Ditch areas remain under voluntary evacuation orders. Related Articles Colorado News | Brush fire sparked by power line near Lockheed Martin in Jefferson County Colorado News | Mountain town adds leaf-peeping updates and photos to tourism website Colorado News | Justin Timberlake sets Denver concert date following drunk-driving plea Colorado News | Denver subpoenas 3 strip clubs in first use of new tool to investigate wage theft Colorado News | Eastbound I-70 closed in Glenwood Canyon, no estimated reopening More than 2,000 contacts are under evacuation orders, sheriff’s officials said. About 75 firefighters, as well as multiple air tankers and helicopters, were fighting the flames Tuesday, according to a news release from Arapahoe and Roosevelt National Forests officials. Low temperatures and higher humidity levels are expected throughout the day, which should help ground crews fight the fire, forest officials said.

Pop superstar Justin Timberlake on Tuesday announced eight new tour dates, following 53 other globe-spanning shows as part of his The Forget Tomorrow World Tour. That includes a Denver concert at Ball Arena, which Timberlake had previously left out as part of the tour. Tickets for the Jan. 28, 2025, show go on sale at 10 a.m.

8212; Justin Fields will likely make his third straight start at quarterback when the Pittsburgh Steelers host the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday. Coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday that Fields will practice with the starters during the early portion of the week while Russell Wilson continues to rehab from a calf injury he aggravated a few days ahead of the season opener earlier this month. Tomlin said there has been no change in Wilson’s status.