Rifle News

It was the late August of 2006 when Lorile Loesch of Rifle went golfing in Battlement Mesa.

Police say a man suspected of killing his brother shot him with a shotgun because his sibling wanted to die.

Prosecutors proved that there is sufficient evidence to support a trial in the first-degree murder case against Heath Johnston.

Glenwood Springs Police responded to an attempted robbery in the early morning of July 3 at the Arby's on Grand Avenue after receiving a report of gunshots being fired at the local fast-food restaurant.

For 25 years, Dee McCown has been an agent at the State Farm office in Rifle - a job she loves and says is different every day.

Rifle Mayor Keith Lambert has been chosen as one of 30 leaders around the state to be appointed to Gov.

State regulators of the oil and gas industry will be in Glenwood Springs twice this month to discuss a variety of controversial subjects, ranging from pollution coinciding with gas-drilling activities to plans for setting up drilling rigs in a residential community.

RIFLE, Colorado - With the exceptional amount of moisture the area received in June, the city will likely lift the fire ban and allow the use of legal fireworks for the Fourth of July weekend.

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.

A man who held elected office in Garfield County for parts of four decades has died.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - A man who evaded police by jumping into the Colorado River in April accepted a plea agreement from prosecutors Thursday in 9th Judicial District Court.

The Midland Center is a recently completed building west of Glenwood Meadows on Wulfsohn Road.

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Residents here are likely to use an established play book in their efforts to deal with planned natural gas drilling in the neighborhood - the same play book used to create a 2006 drilling plan for the Silt/Rifle/New Castle area.

In his sixth month in office, Garfield County Commissioner Mike Samson said he is a "peacemaker" in conflicts between his fellow commissioners.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - Distraught and unable to land a job when she got out of prison in December 2007 after serving a one-year sentence for a methamphetamine conviction, Cheryl Fisher of Rifle could have easily slipped back into a life of addiction.

SILT, Colorado - Two local teenagers made a Rifle woman very happy last weekend, when they found her wallet containing hundreds of dollars, all her identification and other valuable documents, and turned it in.

More than three years after fire destroyed the Grand Avenue Mall in Glenwood Springs, there is new life at the old building.

Matt Archambault of Rifle says he's never done anything for anyone in his whole life.

While popular perception has everyone in Aspen eating fancy food and drinking classy wine, the reality is lots of people are struggling to get enough to eat.