Western Colorado

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Companies join forces on oil shale

One of the companies working on research-and-development oil shale leases in northwest Colorado will work with an international oil-field services company to characterize the lease. American Shale Oil entered into a technical cooperation ...

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City creates survey for feedback on public safety

Insisting they want an honest assessment, Grand Junction city officials announced Wednesday the creation of a Web-based survey that seeks answers as to why voters rejected a pair of ballot measures that would have allowed the city to build $98 ...

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Board could vote on Glade Park school soon

The District 51 board of education could vote at its Nov. 25 business meeting whether to support a school in the Glade Park area, provided some key questions about the project are answered. An anonymous donor purchased 198 acres along DS Road ...

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Curtain to drop on Cinema at the Avalon

Most of the time, it didn’t matter what film was showing at Cinema at the Avalon — longtime friends Thelma Hughes and Janet Johnson were regulars at the Wednesday senior matinees. “We’re very sad,” Johnson said, ...

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Stabbing suspect was in GJ facility

A 17-year-old Montrose High School student whose throat was slashed by an attacker in a crowded school hallway was recovering at her home Wednesday, authorities said. Students held a vigil Tuesday night for Mallory Haulman, who had undergone ...

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Pipe crushes GJ man, 21

A construction worker from Grand Junction was killed Wednesday when a concrete pipe rolled over and crushed him at a new subdivision in north Grand Junction, police said. The 21-year-old man, whose name was not released, was pronounced dead ...

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Siblings get surprise call from mom serving in Iraq

Siblings Holli, Nolan and Batton Acree knew they were getting a surprise Tuesday morning, but the students at Wingate Elementary School never expected this. To the children’s delight, the face of their mother, Maj. Carrie Acree, a ...

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Preview of Night Vision concert to be at museum

Philanthropist Victoria Hearst on Thursday will preview her fourth Night Vision Christian music concert in a presentation at the Museum of the West. Hearst, the granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, and Praise Him Ministries started the ...

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Judge sets bond for Morrow at $50,000

A Grand Junction man accused of collecting thousands of images of child pornography on his home computer was handed a $50,000 bond in Colorado’s U.S. District Court on Monday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Kathleen Tafoya said Michael J. ...

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Owners work to save historic school

Most visitors to the Colona School and Grange only have one thing to say upon entering the imposing historic landmark. “Wow.” “It’s just such an atmosphere,” Jane Bennett said. “You can almost hear little ...

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