Monte Vista News

Rio Grande County Commissioners honored employees for their years of service to the County at their regularly scheduled meeting Aug.

The Alamosa County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue's Dive Team received their third level of certification this week as qualified search and rescue dive professionals.

Accidents can be deadly By ERIC MULLENS ALAMOSA - Last week a potentially deadly accident occurred on Colo.

Melvin Getz of Monte Vista is a former Rio Grande County commissioner. Second of two parts The largest San Luis Valley reservoirs are not above ground, but are the aquifers underlying the valley floor.

Melvin Getz of Monte Vista is a former Rio Grande County commissioner. - - - First of two parts A year ago, in July 2007, the San Luis Valley celebrated the 100-year anniversary of the construction of most of ...

Here's an update on the BLM's efforts to exchange parcels for rights to permanent augmentation water for the Blanca Wetlands, from The Valley Courier .

The Bureau of Land Management is seeking comment on a revised proposal to exchange up to 10 parcels of BLM land for up to 189.8 acre feet of water annually from the Anderson Ditch in Monte Vista.

Bad weather and driving too fast for conditions contributed to a three-vehicle head-on crash on U.S. Highway 160 just east of Del Norte in Rio Grande County at about 2 p.m. Monday, July 28, according to the ...

According to witnesses during a public hearing at the July 17 Monte Vista City Council meeting, an ex-girlfriend's call led officers to an incident in which Southwest Liquor was alleged to be in violation of ...

Photo by Laurelin Kruse Doug Alford and John Murphy look over a motor vehicle use map at the open house in Monte Vista Wednesday.

Mary Robertson presents Richard M. Esquibel with a Boys and Girls t-shirt as a show gratitude for San Luis Valley Mental Health's generous Suburban donation.

A Sandhill Crane performs a ritual mating dance as tens of thousands cranes fly in at sunset to roost for the night in the wetlands of the Monte Vista Wildlife Refuge in March in Monte Vista, Colorado.

He heard it over coffee at 8 a.m., from a school volunteer in Saguache worried about the cost of fueling school buses.

Photos by Keith R. Cerny More than 200 people attended the second Sundays at Six concert sponsored by the Alamosa Live Music Association in Cole Park.

Pearson empathizes with defendant STAFF REPORT DEL NORTE - Judge Amanda Pearson on Wednesday continued for a month the sentencing of former Rio Grande County Undersheriff Jonathan Jay Gonzales, 32, of Monte ...

The Pleasant Valley School District in Camarillo has announced that two new principals will help lead middle schools in the fall.

Yesterday brought in the birthday cake for the Rio Grande National Forest. "Happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us," sang Public Affairs Officer Michael Blakeman.

Cooper faces theft, forgery charges By RUTH HEIDE ALAMOSA - Former San Luis Care Center bookkeeper and receptionist Linette Cooper, 39, of Monte Vista, was charged on Monday with felony theft and forgery ...

County code in tune with West Alamosa board treated to a song Sonia Kaur Monday, June 30, 2008 Roy Fred Hargrove There's nothing like a country song to lighten up a government meeting.

Wind blows burn piles into buildings Tuesday By RUTH HEIDE ALAMOSA - A Tuesday afternoon fire destroyed three outbuildings on County Road 101 South property belonging to John Martinez.