As the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge gets ready to open to the public, a collection of citizens, scientists and activists are fighting to keep it shut. They say hikers, bikers and ...

For 37 years, the Rocky Flats plant produced nuclear weapon parts, 16 miles northwest of Denver. In 1989, the FBI and EPA raided Rocky Flats uncovering serious environmental hazards. Rocky Flats ...

ARVADA, CO – MAY 29: Rocky Flats was once the site of the a nuclear weapons production facility, May 29, 2014. This June will be 25 years since the FBI raided Rocky Flats. (Photo by RJ Sangosti ...

The first payouts in a $375 million settlement involving the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant's negative effect on downwind property values could hit claimants' mailboxes by the end of the ...

View of the Rocky Flats plant looking west in 1995. After 38 years, weapons production ceased in 1989. In 1992, the plant mission changed from weapons production to environmental cleanup and ...

It read like an Onion headline: “Energy Company Applies to Drill Wells Near Rocky Flats.” Fracking under a former nuclear weapons plant that processed plutonium? But this was no joke: a ...

At the center of this refuge is the site of the former Rocky Flats weapons plant, where the United States government spent decades manufacturing plutonium detonators for nuclear bombs.

Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant Closed Long Ago, but Is Still a Hot Topic Could the missing grand jury files hold answers to questions about this hot property's safety? By Patricia Calhoun ...

Construction crews are moving forward with a bridge connecting Westminster Open Space and Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge.

Weapons production halted at the Rocky Flats plant in 1992, and most of the buildings have been dissembled and 80 percent of the area is officially designated a wildlife refuge.