Sharla Steinman

Breaking news/public safety

Sharla Steinman

Sharla Steinman is a breaking news and public safety reporter at the Loveland Reporter-Herald. She graduated from Columbia Journalism School in 2025 and UCLA in 2024 (her twin brother went to USC). She is originally from Topanga, California, so she is happy to be back in the mountains. When she's not working, Sharla enjoys watching movies and ranking them on Letterboxd. Find her on X.com .

Twins Laurel Olson-Williams, 7, left, and Robin Olson-Williams, 7, right, play Ring Around the Rosie in the center of a sculpture by Gary Price titled Circle of Peace at Benson Sculpture Garden in Loveland on Thursday. Their grandparents Donna and Rice Williams watch as they play. The Williamses said that their daughters, the kids' mom and aunt, used to play around the sculpture when they were children. Donna Williams said they would always have a picnic at Benson Sculpture Garden the day before school started. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Loveland鈥檚 Circle of Peace sculpture, inviting interaction for 25 years

July 13, 2026 at 6:35 a.m.

The sculpture honors Julie Moser, who was killed in the 1998 Swissair Flight 111 crash off the coast of Nova Scotia

Colorado state trooper facing sexual assault and strangulation charges, arrested in Loveland

June 22, 2026 at 2:06 p.m.

Jeremiah Patterson, 34, was arrested by the Loveland Police Department Friday night with the assistance of Flock Safety cameras

A helicopter flies over flames and smoke that fills the sky above the Alexander Mountain Fire Tuesday, July 30, 2024, west of Loveland. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Prosecutors clear man accused of starting 10,000-acre Larimer County wildfire

June 19, 2026 at 10:21 a.m.

鈥淲e join in the significant disappointment of our community that the individual responsible for setting the fire remains unknown, and accountability for their losses has not yet come,鈥� said a...

An Idaho State Police photograph from the crash site where three Northern Colorado men were killed riding motorcycles around 4 p.m. June 16, 2026, on U.S. 12 in Idaho. (Courtesy of Idaho State Police)

3 Northern Colorado residents killed in Idaho crash; 2 were Larimer County Sheriff鈥檚 Office employees

June 19, 2026 at 6:01 a.m.

Three Northern Colorado men were killed in a crash while riding motorcycles around 4 p.m. Tuesday on U.S. 12 in Idaho, according to Idaho state officials.聽

Drivers travel past a red light camera on Eisenhower Boulevard at Boise Avenue in Loveland on Thursday. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Loveland鈥檚 red light cameras have generated nearly $1 million

June 16, 2026 at 7:09 p.m.

A member of the Loveland Police Department抖阴ap traffic division reviews each violation before issuing a civil infraction with a $75 fine

A cow elk nuzzles her newborn calf while cautiously watching her surroundings in Estes Park, Colo. (Dawn Wilson Photography)

Aggressive elk chased mother and daughter near Rocky Mountain National Park trail聽

May 29, 2026 at 12:27 p.m.

A mother and her daughter reported being chased by an aggressive cow elk after they walked past her newborn calf Wednesday morning near Alberta Falls in Rocky Mountain National Park,...

Berthoud Fire Protection District Lt. Ken Bradley was seriously injured in a head-on crash on Interstate 25 on his way to work Sunday (Courtesy of GoFundMe)

Berthoud firefighter injured in head-on crash with wrong-way driver on I-25 in Denver

May 20, 2026 at 12:23 p.m.

A Berthoud Fire Protection District lieutenant was seriously injured in a head-on crash on Interstate 25 on his way to work Sunday, according to a GoFundMe page.

Elijah Manley, the 17-month-old boy who was killed in a four-vehicle crash on Interstate 25 on Tuesday, near Crossroads Boulevard in Loveland. (Courtesy of GoFundMe)

Driver takes plea deal in crash that killed 17-month-old on I-25 near Loveland

May 18, 2026 at 3:03 p.m.

The driver of the box truck in a four-vehicle crash that killed a 17-month-old on Interstate 25 near Loveland in December pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide.

A wildfire burns near Carter Lake on Monday. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Evacuations lifted for wildfire near Carter Lake west of Loveland

May 13, 2026 at 12:00 a.m.

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for a 10- to 15-acre wildfire reported near Carter Lake just before 3 p.m. Monday, according to officials.

Drivers caught weaving through express lanes on the Interstate 25 North corridor between Berthoud and Fort Collins will begin receiving fines Thursday.聽(Courtesy of the Colorado Department of Transportation)

Fines for crossing solid line in and out of express lanes on I-25 start Thursday in Larimer, Weld counties

May 5, 2026 at 3:34 p.m.

New technology allows the Colorado Department of Transportation to detect when a vehicle illegally enters and exits express lanes and violators will begin receiving fines Thursday.

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