Gunnison News

A new building is going up in Boise, but it's not made of wood or brick. It's a straw bale house, made of thick layers of straw covered with plaster.

The Mesa County Republican Women monthly luncheon on Monday will feature Mesa County Undersheriff Rebecca Spiess, who will speak about the FBI National Academy.

Delta County treasurer Jim Ventrello is approaching the annual tax lien sale scheduled for Thursday with a sense of extra caution this year.

In mid-September, we took a road trip to Colorado for relaxation, to escape the heat and to get back to nature.

Windsor High School's top returning wrestler has already worked out his college plans.

Official recording of deeds and documents occurs at county seats. Miners desired close proximity to those government offices.

Colorado Big Country Resource Conservation and Development Vice President Pat McCarty, left, and President David Merritt, of Glenwood Springs, receive Circle of Diamonds membership from the National Association of RC&D Councils.

Rena Horn listen as David Shultz shares memories of the old Yarmony Creek School.

Bill Tembrock and Peggy Baxter are offering what may be the last hike of the season to Crystal Reservoir Overlook .

" This site on South Canal will be the location of a new hydroelectric plant to be built by the Uncompahgre Valley Water Users Association and Delta-Montrose Electric Association.

Crested Butte, CO-September 2009. Revolution Brewery of Paonia has been awarded the "Best Pale Ale" award at the Fall Festival of Beers and Chili Cook Off in Crested Butte.

Another concept for revitalizing downtown Gunnison and adding a central gathering location has again emerged, resurrecting a few concepts that have been proposed previously.

From the Colorado Department of Wildlife -- Hunters in the North Fork Valley who want to check their harvested deer or elk for chronic wasting disease can no longer take them for testing at the Delta County Fairgrounds in Hotchiss.

Blood drives A Viaero Wireless Community Blood Drive will be held Wednesday, Sept.

Wet weather was forecast to persist over the Eastern U.S. on Friday as a strong system continued tracking through the country.

Origin Of Name: John Kebler owned the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company and many coal mines in the area.

Many who dug the tunnel were Appalachian coal miners. The feat, and its results, will be celebrated Saturday with a parade, pealing bells and re-enactment of President William Howard Taft's speech.

The chilly nights in the high country are leading to changing leaves. As the days grow shorter and nights grow longer, biochemical processes in the leaves cause them to lose their green blanketing the Rocky Mountains in brilliant tints of red, orange, and gold.

Leaders of an effort to add wilderness protection to 400,000 acres of public lands in western Colorado unveiled a new strategy Thursday to win the hearts, mind, legs and lungs of mountain bikers.

Gunnison County Sheriff Rick Murdie on Wednesday said he's confident human remains recovered from a hillside near Somerset are not those of missing Grand Junction woman Paige Birgfeld.