Grand Junction News

A double-sided page tucked into the center of the Grand Junction Police Department's 2008 annual report highlights 10 reasons why Police Chief Bill Gardner believes the community should support the creation of a new public safety building.

Flying a sign is still no crime after Grand Junction City Council members Monday shot down two ordinances that would have restricted solicitation.

Former Republican congressman Scott McInnis, a native of Glenwood Springs now living in Grand Junction, on Wednesday filed the paperwork to create a campaign committee and start raising money for his bid to become Colorado's next governor.

One man was lucky to get out of his burning home alive Wednesday morning. Grand Junction Fire crews were called out at 2:15 a.m. after a report of a house fire.

Two controversial measures to ban some panhandling in Grand Junction have been rejected for now.

Avid disc golf player Chad Pasterz has seen the close calls when the flying, plastic orbs whiz over the heads of children playing on equipment at Westlake Park.

You have to go back 110 years to find a wetter June 26 in Grand Junction. Rainfall early evening Friday flooded several Grand Junction-area streets, homes and businesses.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Grand Junction officials are considering making panhandling a crime to stop what they say is an aggressive and increasing practice.

A 36-year-old Grand Junction man was arrested Friday on 66 felony charges related to child sexual assault.

A Grand Junction man was one of two people killed in a pickup rollover in McKenzie County, N.D on Tuesday.

When Kelly Sloan hears the United States is eyeing legislation to nationalize health care, he can only think of the troubles he had with that kind of system while living in Canada until nearly three years ago.

A pickup rollover in McKenzie County has killed two men and injured a third. The Highway Patrol did not immediately identify the two victims: a 59-year-old Leith man and a 38-year-old Grand Junction, Colo., man.

A western Colorado woman has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of her second husband.

A local man plans to open shop in Carbondale next month for what he believes will be the Roaring Fork Valley's first dispensary for medical marijuana.

Authorities say carbon monoxide poisoning may have killed two people who were found dead over the weekend in Cache County.

A couple doors down, a few racks of clothes buried in the back of the store is about all that's left at the Village Squire Clothiers, succumbing to the sagging economy after 17 years of business.

A man accused of brutally beating a drilling rig worker in 2005 and leaving him to die proclaimed his innocence Friday, but a judge ruled there was enough evidence for the case to go to trial.

Miracles do happen. Grand Junction was mentioned in The New Yorker magazine. And it has created quite a buzz in our part of the country.

No one who knows Ken Leis or Kathy Hall was surprised when the Grand Junction couple gave $500,000 to Hospice & Palliative Care of Western Colorado.

Colorado's peak flow from snowmelt hit a few weeks earlier than normal, causing problems for some recreational users of the state's rivers and complicating downstream irrigation strategies.