Abigail Ankeney

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Abigail Ankeney

Abigail Ankeney is a police, crime and courts reporter covering Boulder County. She loves talking to people and offering a space for people to share their whole stories. When not working, you can find her in the mountains, reading a book in Cheesman Park or playing games with friends. Find her on Bluesky at .

Boulder's Realization fire burns less than an acre overnight on Nov. 19, 2025, as fire crews mounted steep and rocky terrain to fight it. (Courtesy of Boulder Fire-Rescue Department)

Boulder fire crews extinguish overnight wildfire between Boulder Canyon and Flagstaff

November 19, 2025 at 4:29 p.m.

Boulder Fire Rescue and other agencies fully contained a wildfire early Wednesday morning that erupted late Tuesday night and spread just shy of an acre between Boulder Canyon and Flagstaff...

The Larimer County Jail. (Reporter-Herald file)

7th suspect arrested after new indictment in metro Denver theft, burglary ring

November 18, 2025 at 9:58 a.m.

A seventh person under indictment in a suspected burglary ring was arrested after a grand jury superseded its earlier indictment.

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, far left, appears in a Boulder courtroom on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. Soliman is charged with 118 charges in district court in a June 1 Molotov cocktail attack on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall. He also faces 12 federal hate crime charges. (Video still via Colorado Judicial Branch/Webex)

Suspect in Boulder antisemitic terror attack pleads not guilty to more than 100 charges

November 5, 2025 at 2:30 p.m.

The man accused in the June firebombing on the Pearl Street Mall that led to the death of one woman and injured 14 people and a dog pleaded not guilty...

The EconoLodge near Interstate 25 and Colo. 119 is seen in Weld County on Thursday. The Weld County Sheriff has ordered the auction of the hotel after it failed to pay a $4 million judgment for negligence after an assault and attempted murder that occurred in 2023. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)

Longmont area hotel to be auctioned after guests never received $4.5 million payout

November 7, 2025 at 7:18 p.m.

A Longmont area hotel will be sold in a sheriff's auction after the victims' lawyer said it failed to fork over a $4 million payout levied when a Weld County...

Residents from the area arrived in a farm field east of Longmont to look at the wreckage of United Airlines Flight 629. (Hildreth Studio / Longmont Museum)

How 2 Colorado men remember Flight 629 bombing 70 years later

October 30, 2025 at 8:42 a.m.

Saturday marks the 70th anniversary of the day the United flight exploded over Weld County, killing 44 before crashing and spreading debris across six square miles east of Longmont, an...

Michael Clark walks out of the Boulder County Jail in Boulder, Colorado, on April 14, 2025. Clark鈥檚 conviction in a 1994 Boulder murder was thrown out over flawed DNA work by Colorado Bureau of Investigation scientist Yvonne 鈥淢issy鈥� Woods. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

Boulder judge denies request for JonBenet Ramsey investigation records in 1994 murder case

October 28, 2025 at 5:33 p.m.

A Boulder County judge on Tuesday declined to let a defense attorney in a 1994 murder case see the police department's JonBenet Ramsey death investigation records, calling them an irrelevant...

Boulder police radios going encrypted means public, press won鈥檛 be able to listen in

October 27, 2025 at 6:51 p.m.

Boulder鈥檚 police radios will no longer be available for curious minds and ears starting no later than Tuesday.

The entrance to Erie Municipal Airport. (Cliff Grassmick/Staff Photographer)

2 killed in Erie airport single-engine plane crash were from California and Florida

October 27, 2025 at 12:36 p.m.

Neither of the two men who died in a single-engine plane crash at Erie Municipal Airport on Oct. 19 were from Colorado.

Boulder County Sheriff’s Office The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office reported an injured hiker was located and rescued above Boulder Falls about 10:30 a.m. Monday. (File photo)

DA: Arrests halt 鈥榤assive crime ring鈥� in Colorado

October 22, 2025 at 7:42 p.m.

In all, the crime ring is suspected of stealing about $828,000 in property and doing $39,880 in property damage, from January through September.

With B&F Mountain Market in the background, firefighters extinguish hot spots from a fire at the Caribou Village Shopping Center in Nederland on Thursday. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)

Nederland鈥檚 only supermarket reopens after shopping-center fire forced temporary closure

October 13, 2025 at 9:00 a.m.

Nederland鈥檚 B&F Mountain Market reopened Sunday, three days after a fire leveled an adjacent multi-level strip mall.

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Boulder fire crews extinguish overnight wildfire between Boulder Canyon and Flagstaff

7th suspect arrested after new indictment in metro Denver theft, burglary ring

Suspect in Boulder antisemitic terror attack pleads not guilty to more than 100 charges

Longmont area hotel to be auctioned after guests never received $4.5 million payout

How 2 Colorado men remember Flight 629 bombing 70 years later

Boulder judge denies request for JonBenet Ramsey investigation records in 1994 murder case

Boulder police radios going encrypted means public, press won鈥檛 be able to listen in

2 killed in Erie airport single-engine plane crash were from California and Florida

DA: Arrests halt 鈥榤assive crime ring鈥� in Colorado

Nederland鈥檚 only supermarket reopens after shopping-center fire forced temporary closure