Collbran, Colorado

Three years after purchasing the Rifle Fireside Lanes, Jack and Ava Bowles have the business up for sale.

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State Rep.-elect Laura Bradford, R-Collbran, will sit on the House Business Affairs and Labor Committee when the Legislature convenes in January, the House Republican caucus announced Friday.

The Western Slope will have to wait at least two more years, but likely longer, before it is home to a speaker of the House.

The Bureau of Land Management is preparing to revise its resource management plan for 1.2 million acres of federal lands primarily in Mesa and Garfield counties and is seeking public comment on the work.

Election night is always a night of surprises, even for the most politically attuned among us.

One day after Mesa County chose her to replace Rep. Bernie Buescher, D-Grand Junction, in House District 55, Republican Laura Bradford of Collbran was already gearing up for a trip to Denver and calling her ...

Mesa County Elections workers have been counting mail-in ballots and overseeing early voting for days.

Four public meetings about Mesa County's developing energy master plan could come as early as January, according to materials included in a draft of the plan.

In five days, Collbran Republican Laura Bradford accumulated $7,000 in campaign donations to film and air a commercial responding to 527 ads attacking her on health care and water issues.

Grand Junction police arrested two people and questioned three others after reports of a possible shooting Monday night at a C&F Food Store.

Grand Junction is expecting as many as 20,000 people to turn out for an appearance by Alaska Gov.

The issue of expanding the county commissioners from three to five members continued to garner much discussion throughout the county today.

Abdiwali Sharif-Abdinasir spoke little English and had little education when he came to the Fargo area from Somalia about five years ago.

Much like the musical fundraiser last month to raise needed food and cash for the Roice-Hurst Humane Society, Jerry Schaeffer organized a similar tonal treat Saturday to help feed people who are hungry.

Mesa County has had three county commissioners for 125 years-- and some people would like to change that.

Delta Petroleum, the company that earlier this year jumped the gun on construction of a compressor station near Vega Reservoir, is expected to pay $47,200 in fines for its premature work.

Following the lead of recent national debates, the economy took over a sizable portion of a local candidate forum hosted Monday night by the Fruita Chamber of Commerce.

U.S. Rep. John Salazar says he has his eye on the little guy in the current market crisis.