(Montrose, CO) Montrose Police say they would like to hear from anyone with information on a bizarre shooting that happened just off of Main Street last week.  Police Commander Gene Lillard says investigators are still following up on leads related to the Wednesday morning drive-by shooting of an unoccupied car parked on Cascade.  Lillard says [...]

(Montrose, CO) The Montrose County Board of Commissioners will meet on June 17th to discuss the Planning Commission’s recommendation to approve a Special Use permit for Rocky Mountain Aggregate to operate a gravel mining operation south of Highway 550 on T Road.  Planning Commissioners met on Thursday and gave the green light to the proposal [...]

(Montrose County, CO The traditional kickoff to summer season launches the busy season for Montrose County Search and Rescue personnel, who do a lot more than searching and rescuing.  Sheriff’s Posse President Mark Rackay says volunteers are busy training twice a month to keep up to speed on a variety of resuce techniques and procedures. [...]

(Gunnison, CO) Gunnison’s City Council meets starting at 7 p.m. with a busy agenda.  The Planning and Zoning Commission may be one of the most powerful boards in the city and Councilors are poised to make 3 appointments to P & Z tonight.  Bob Beda, Greg Larson, and Stephanie White have been selected to fill [...]

(Mesa County, CO) A fiery crash at a remote Mesa County intersection claimed the life of one person and sent another to the Emergency Room just after midnight Saturday.  A Colorado State Patrol spokesman says that the driver of a 1997 Ford Mustang lost control of the vehicle at 17 ¼ Road and K ¾ [...]

(Montrose, CO) The sun is forecast to be shining in Montrose this Thursday and that’s good news for the city’s Wastewater Treatment plant as it launches its first ever solar electrical generation system to the tune of $8-thousand in annual savings. Public Works Director John Harris says the project is a win-win-win:  with the city [...]

(Grand Junction, CO) Memorial Day Weekend had a busy kickoff for Western Slope Fire fighters.  Grand Junction Fire Department’s  Battalion Chief Doug Walsh says the crew tackled three structure fires on Friday, including a fire at Wal Greens on First at Patterson. Walsh says that with the traditional kickoff to summer behind us it’s especially [...]

Montrose Police Chief Tom Chinn confirms that the owners of an empty sedan shot up along Cascade Main Street Thursday morning did file a report the weekend before the car shooting regarding their residence being shot at.  Chinn says he can’t jeopardize the investigation by prematurely releasing too many details before detectives conclude their probe. [...]

(Montrose, CO)  Montrose Police are on the lookout for suspects in a drive-by shooting that occurred at approximately 10 a.m. this morning on Cascade Street at Main.  Police Chief Tom Chinn says the shooter fired multiple shots from an unidentified weapon at an unoccupied sedan on Cascade Street.  There were no injuries. Chinn says there [...]

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Highway-50 has reopened just east of Montrose at Mile Marker-124 where a tanker hauling more than 6-thousand gallons of fuel overturned at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday and caught fire.  Neither the driver nor passenger in the single vehicle accident was injured in spite of a raging inferno that melted a portion of the roadway. A Colorado [...]

Officials are crediting a cooler Spring for good news regarding the Colorado river at this year’s state of the river meeting that took place at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction last night.  Experts from across the state came together to educate people on how the water would be impacted by weather and the current [...]

(From the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel):  U.S Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., who plans to sign on as a cosponsor of the measure, S.306, voted for it in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which approved the bill.  The next step for the measure is a vote on the Senate floor.  The measure by U.S [...]

On Wednesday, May 15th, the League of Women Voters will hold a DMEA Candidate Forum from 6:30 to 7:30 at the DMEA Headquarters (11925 6300 RD in Montrose).  All DMEA members are invited to attend the “Town Hall” style forum and ask questions directly to the candidates.  Light refreshments will be served.

Tomorrow’s the day, Stamp out Hunger Time Montrose! Don’t forget this Saturday to leave your non-perishable food donations for your postal carrier! Past years Sharing Ministries has received almost 5000 pounds of food – let’s do that plus in 2013! THANK YOU TO OUR WONDERFUL COMMUNITY! http://about.usps.com/corporate-social-responsibility/nalc-food-drive.htm

A rock slide that took place on Sunday has completely closed Colorado Highway 133 south of McClure Pass while crews work to clear it according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.  Multiple rocks, one as big as a dump truck, fell on to the roadway and into a ditch about 13 miles south of McClure [...]