Attorneys for Douglas Thames, who has now been charged with the murder of a Palisade woman in 1994, claim their client was contacted improperly by FBI agents while he was being held in the Mesa County Jail.  According to court filings he was being questioned with the presence of his lawyer.  Now attorneys are seeking [...]

Thanks to a $131 thousand grant from Greater Outdoors Colorado Telluride was able to get new grandstands in Town Park.  And on Monday Mayor Stu Fraser and Parks and Recs. Commission Chair Dave Lamb took part in the ribbon cutting ceremony.  The new grandstands will be situated between Bear Creek and Warner Fields.  The stands [...]

At a board meeting yesterday in Glenwood Springs a state water official stated that Western Colorado, in particular, Northwest Colorado has become a region of severe drought during the past month.  Veva  Deheza, manager of the Colorado Water Conservation Board gave this update yesterday and based on those findings a task force has now asked [...]

This promises to be a very busy season for biking events in the Crested Butte Gunnison area this summer.  First, they have been selected to be one of the stages in the 2nd annual USA Pro Cycling Challenge.  Crested Butte is also the stop on the Leadville 100 Qualifying Series and Gunnison is the start [...]

That wildfire blazing in the northern part of Colorado near Fort Collins has grown to nearly 1,000 acres and is currently only 5 per cent contained but is not directly threatening any homes.  U.S. Forest Service says this appears to caused by humans and will continue investigating.  One firefighter did sustain some minor injuries.  There’s [...]

The FAA is investigating a report about a near in air collision between a small twin jet Cessna aircraft and an unknown object over the Denver skies.  The pilot of the Cessna told air traffic controllers that the object appeared to be a large remote-controlled aircraft.  The Cessna Citation Was about 8 thousand feet above [...]

A full schedule of topics were discussed last night at the City Council meeting.  One of which is the proclamation made by Mayor Thom Smits that today Wed. May 16th be proclaimed “Police Officer’s Memorial Day”.  Police Chief Thom Chinn was also on hand and explained how the event came about..(audio :22SEC)  The memorial took [...]

There is a groundbreaking ceremony Tomorrow for the Montrose Campus of Colorado Mesa University. The ceremony marks the beginning of renovations to the campus to better utilize the current space and add lab space. Other additions will include updated equipment and technology for the more than three hundred students currently enrolled there. CMU is also [...]

The Montrose City Council met last night with a pretty full schedule. The biggest item on the agenda however was the discussion and vote on a Business Retention project to help out 3M subsidiary Ross Reels. The plan is to use money from the Montrose Tourism and Promotion fund to run a joint marketing and [...]

Former Montrose DA Myrl Serra will be getting out of prison early. He will be released later this month instead of July due to good behavior. Inmates receive 10 days off their sentence a month for following rules and working in programs. Serra will still have to serve a 60day sentence in the Montrose County [...]

The owners of Ouray’s Box Canyon Lodge and Hot Springs have announced they have taken over ownership of Exotic Earth Coffee Roasters in Ouray.  Karen and Rich Avery have gotten together with Ridgway resident, Danny Wesseling, on this venture.  Exotic Earth features mostly organic, shade-grown, fair trade beans from exotic equatorial locations around the world [...]

On Thurs. May 31st the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado, Office of Resource Efficiency, EcoAction Partners and the FORE Alliance will get together to host a think tank in Montrose to discuss energy, water, waste, transportation and food issues affecting the southwestern part of the state.  The event will be held in the Region 10 Conference [...]

As the dry warm weather continues wildfire chances increase.  And as fire crews feared another outbreak has hit north Colorado about 20 miles northwest of Fort Collins.  The blaze initially broke out yesterday in the Roosevelt National Forest and crews are concerned about the 20mph winds which could cause the blaze to spread.  Right now [...]

Although Colorado’s special session turned out to be a bust for the civil unions bill, it turned out to be a reprieve for Senate Bill 3, Invest in Colorado Act.  Initially this legislation was killed in the House and now has been given a second chance thanks to the special session that’s been called by [...]

Three US Representatives were in Montrose yesterday for a congressional subcommittee hearing on the Bark Beetle infestation in Colorado. Representative Scott Tipton and his colleagues Representative Rob Bishop of Utah and Representative Tom McClintock of California heard two hours of testimony about forest health and what to do about the beetles. Representative Scott Tipton said [...]

A party line vote in a state house committee yesterday killed a bill to allow civil unions again. The bill was killed by a 5-4 vote in the Veterans and Military Affairs Committee. The bill was brought to the special session after it was killed when the legislative session ended last week. House Republicans filibustered [...]