Palisade News

Troy and Lori Raper in 2007, before they embarked on their fitness makeover program.

This time, the theme is race, politics and culture in 21st-century America as the Palisadian helps comedian David Alan Grier translate his sharp, opinionated wit to book form.

Nearly 500 supporters attended the Beverly Wilshire event. 'Chris is an outstanding role model for the future generation of Saint John's supporters and community leaders, which makes him the perfect honoree,' said Lou Lazatin, Saint John's chief executive officer.

My wife, Amber, and I walked into the Mesa County Department of Motor Vehicles office over the lunch hour the other day to finally get our Colorado license tags.

Grades are up and tardies are down and its all thanks to a unique program at Palisade High School that takes away privileges from students who don't make the cut.

No one can be happy to learn that yet another police officer in the Grand Valley faces criminal charges, albeit misdemeanor ones.

A Palisade police officer has been arrested on allegations he harassed his ex-girlfriend with text messages and by calling her and knocking on her apartment door in the middle of the night.

Wearing a Broncos cap, Xavier Arevalo, outreach worker promoter at Child and Migrant Services supervises a group of volunteers making tamales for the nonprofit organization's 55th anniversary Thursday.

With demographers forecasting 35 percent more people in Colorado by 2035 and climate scientists predicting 15 percent less water available in the Colorado River Basin by mid-century, something has to give.

Clifton/Fruitvale petition process begins If the area becomes part of GJ, what will it mean to you as a property owner? Answer your phone to find out! Mesa County is hosting a town hall meeting - via telephone - Thurs., Oct.

Police are searching for whoever crashed a stolen car on Interstate-70 Sunday morning.

The only contested race for the School District 51 Board of Education pits two Palisade residents against each other to replace Ron Rowley, who is term limited.

While it took time for him to come forward, Calvin O'Banion did just that. And possibly averted tragedy in the process, authorities said Thursday.

When Alvaro Diaz' construction job ended this year he took the first job he could find at a local car wash.

Once a year, the Catholic Outreach Center puts on a fundraiser to help support their Soup Kitchen.

When U.S. Rep. Wayne Aspinall beat his Republican opponent, Howard Shults, by a mere 29 votes in 1952, Democrats in western Colorado spent weeks anguishing over why the vote had been so close.

The announcement this week by the Mesa County Division of Pest Management that victory has been declared in the fight against the Japanese beetle was welcome.

After six years, the Mesa County Division of Pest Management is declaring victory over the Japanese Beetle in Palisade.

Some parts of the Grand Valley could see freezing temperatures tonight. The National Weather Service has upgraded the freeze watch to a freeze warning.

Linda Kanan, director of the Colorado School Safety Resource Center, said 18-year-old Robert Dell Johnson's arrest this week should serve as a reminder that school violence remains a real threat.