Western Colorado

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Fund set up for family displaced by fire

A family displaced last week by a apartment fire has run out of options for housing. Ricky and Donna Vezakis and their 16-year-old twin children were forced to evacuate their two-bedroom Clifton apartment in the 400 block of Tracy Drive early ...

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How to make egg-drop soup

Francisco Vazquez and Rudy Barcenas are $100 richer thanks to their brains, a recycled soda bottle and breakfast cereal. The Central High School juniors won a physics competition Saturday at Mesa State College by building a device that kept ...

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Car dealership expands space despite uncertainty

A hum of construction echoes from the rear of Ed Bozarth Chevrolet-Pontiac and Buick off U.S. Highway 6&50 in Grand Junction. But at the front of the sprawling 14-acre General Motors dealership and repair shop, it’s dead ...

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TERROR GRIPS GRAND JUNCTION- 1975 community review

Three months after graduating high school, David Bailey packed up his Ford Maverick and drove across the country from Ohio to western Colorado, enticed by the laid-back nature and open spaces of the West. He figured he had left behind the ...

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A snapshot of the Grand Valley in 1975

If you tried to picture a community hit by 12 murders in one year, you likely wouldn’t envision Grand Junction in 1975. The Grand Valley was on the cusp of the oil-shale boom and bustling with transient workers building the Hayden Power ...

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GarCo tax revenue crash looms

It’s been a wonderful ride for tax districts in western Garfield County in recent years. The natural gas industry has proven to be a revenue gravy train, thanks to a total assessed valuation now measured in billions of dollars. But as ...

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Groups say Roan filing undermines BLM argument for energy leases

Environmental groups say the federal government has abandoned its primary argument for not wanting to protect the Roan Plateau from oil and gas development. The groups say the Bureau of Land Management is no longer relying on a 1997 law in ...

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Democrats criticize Napolitano terror remarks

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano should have treated left- and right-wing extremists equally in a recent report, U.S. Rep. John Salazar, D-Colorado, said. The report, issued on the eve of April 15 tea party tax protests across the ...

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Census Bureau builds local work force for national head count

With the 2010 national head count less than a year away, the U.S. Census Bureau is looking for six people who will head the effort to count all western Colorado residents. Getting the count right, said spokeswoman Deborah A. Cameron, will ...

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Motorcycle deaths hit record in ’08

According to the Colorado Department of Transportation: “Nearly seven out of 10 riders killed in Colorado last year were not wearing a helmet or were wearing it incorrectly. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates ...

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