Western Colorado

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St. Mary’s kicks off $40 million construction job at hospital’s new tower

The Century Project of St. Mary’s Hospital, punched into the sky three years ago, is filling from the inside. Officials on Thursday announced that interior work on the top two stories of the 12-story tower will begin soon and will be ...

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Parachute Creek tests benzene-free for 2 days

Tests showed no benzene in Parachute Creek Tuesday and Wednesday, in another sign that remediation efforts related to a natural gas liquids leak there are proving effective. Aeration treatment of the creek and groundwater “has done a ...

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Work to end soon on deadly I-70 stretch

An Interstate 70 construction zone in Glenwood Canyon where two head-on collisions have claimed four lives this spring is scheduled to revert back to its normal traffic pattern June 3 as work winds down, Colorado Department of Transportation ...

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Montrose police seek 
white truck 
in shooting

Police were still looking Thursday evening for at least two people allegedly involved in a drive-by shooting that happened in broad daylight on a downtown Montrose street earlier in the day. According to police, a white four-door Chevrolet ...

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Tree, grass and weed 
pollen hit ‘high’ point

If you’re allergic to pollen from trees, grasses and weeds, you probably already know allergy season is ramping up out there. According to Mesa County’s Airborne Allergen Report, allergens from all three kinds of flora just ...

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Avoid parking hassles while at JUCO

If you don’t feel like battling for a parking spot for the popular JUCO tournament baseball games at Suplizio Field, consider taking a free shuttle bus. For hotel visitors along Horizon Drive, a shuttle runs every 30 minutes starting ...

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Trial for 1994 murder to proceed

The case against a man facing charges in the 1994 rape and murder of Palisade resident Jacie Taylor will go forward, District Judge Richard Gurley ruled Thursday. In a preliminary hearing for 40-year-old Douglas Thames in Mesa County District ...

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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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