Western Colorado

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GJ keeps taxes exempt from TABOR

Grand Junction will continue to exclude a 0.75 percent sales tax, and the city’s less than 1/3 of 1 percent portion from Mesa County’s sales tax, from limits set by the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. The move breaks step with ...

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Crashes close I-70, Highway 50; 
woman dies at scene; three hurt

Two fiery truck crashes and their related road closures had western Colorado travelers scrambling to take detours for much of Wednesday. A woman was killed, three others were hospitalized and Interstate 70 was closed for roughly nine hours in ...

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Tipton, former GJ mayor spar over energy

U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton doesn’t like the way President Barack Obama’s administration has handled energy development on federal lands. That’s why the Cortez Republican got the House Subcommittee on Energy and Minerals to take ...

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Forty years of catching up to do for couple

In the weeks leading up to taking the GED test, Duane and Karen Sickler’s home was “piled knee-deep with scrap paper” with notes on math and grammar that they hadn’t thought about for 40 years. “It was hard for ...

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Last day of school, for good, on Glade Park

For the first time in four years, Steve Miller won’t hear the smile-inducing sound of children laughing this August outside Glade Park Community School. That’s because the 19 children who attended the school until its last day ...

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Ex-cop gets prison for child sex assault

Former Grand Junction police officer Eric Janusz will spend the next chapter of his life in the Colorado Department of Corrections after his sentencing Wednesday in connection with a sexual relationship he began while on duty with a ...

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School board OKs deal on teacher compensation

School board members voted 3-2 Tuesday to approve a three-year agreement between School District 51 and teacher representation group Mesa Valley Education Association. The “nay” votes for the agreement, which lays out ...

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Governor signs bill to fund K-12 education in Colorado

Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law Tuesday a bill that would bring more money to K-12 education in the state, maybe. While the bill is designed to provide a more equitable funding formula for how the state distributes public school money, ...

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Author workshops help kids learn the write stuff

In only its second year, a new writing program in western Colorado has broken records for both schools and writers. Writers in the Schools, sponsored by Colorado Humanities and in partnership with the Western Colorado Writers’ Forum, ...

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Teen shelter upsets GJ neighbors

Some neighbors in the block that houses a homeless shelter for teenagers want their quiet cul-de-sac back. Neighbors on a street in the area of Seventh Street and Patterson Road worry that property values will decline on their block of ...

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