Rifle News

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - The man accused of bursting into an assisted living center in Rifle May 17 and brandishing a pistol at residents and staff is a "career felon" with a long list of charges and convictions, according to the district attorney.

RIFLE, Colo.- Rifle will be welcoming a new, unique training facility on Thursday, aimed at helping individuals in need.

Who says the solar industry is slowing down? Not Martifer Solar USA. The California-based subsidiary of the international Martifer Group has seen a sharp rise in its project pipeline for 2012 growing to more than 100 megawatts of anticipated solar installations .

Editor's note: The Garfield County Sheriff's Department reports the following incidents and arrests.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - The SourceGas natural gas company has filed suit to force Colorado Mountain College to allow construction of a compressor station on the college's Spring Valley campus.

Colorado Mountain College students and instructors show off the 10 kilowatt solar array they installed atop the remodeled and expanded New Castle Branch Library.

Memorial service with full military honors will be held on May 25, 2011, at 1 p.m. at The Veterans Memorial Park in Rifle, across from Wamsley Elementary.

Former Garfield County manager Ed Green, who was dismissed by the county commissioners in January, has been named as the new village manager for North Palm Beach, Fla.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - Garfield County commissioners will resume their search for a new county manager starting in July.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - The Colorado Mountain College board of trustees is in the process of reviewing a proposed $63.1 million general fund budget for next year.

Photos by Dennis Webb - Heidi Acosta applauds for classmates Sunday at Rifle High School's graduation.

Editor's note: The Garfield County Sheriff's Department reports the following incidents and arrests.

A Rifle man arrested Thursday after taking a handgun into Crossroads Assisted Living in Rifle was booked into the Garfield County Jail on eight charges related to the incident, authorities said Friday.

Some of the finest - and hardest - limestone routes in North America are located in Rifle Mountain Park, which features 200 bolted sport routes, few rated below 5.10, with average grades more like 5.12. But a move submitted to the Colorado Division of Wildlife this past fall by the Rifle Climbers Coalition , with backing from the Access Fund, to ... (more)

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - The trustees of Colorado Mountain College will hold a "special meeting" Friday to take the school's next step in preparing for a legal battle that seems headed its way.

A brush fire burned possibly four or five acres of catttail marsh this afternoon, briefly closing part of U.S. Highway 6 between Rifle and Silt due to poor visibility caused by smoke, said Brit McLin, chief of the Burning Mountains Fire Department.

A small company that holds a federal lease to extract petroleum from oil shale reserves in western Colorado is taking a new approach to withdrawing crude oil from solid rock -- one that it hopes will avoid groundwater contamination.

Colorado's largest water utility and two western counties are ratifying a deal aimed at balancing the Denver-area's demand for water with the needs of mountain communities.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - The Colorado Mountain College Board of Trustees on Monday tossed out a lease agreement permitting installation of a natural gas compressor station on the school's Spring Valley campus.

I write in response to the May 7 Post Independent article, "Three towns disagree with county on oil shale." I've listened quietly and carefully to the debate on oil and gas and oil shale exploration and drilling on our public lands.