Rifle News

MESA COUNTY, Colo.- Officials release the identity of the two men who were killed in Thursday night's fatal accident in DeBeque Canyon.

RIFLE, Colo.- A major waterline break is impacting Rifle residents Thursday evening.

A worker checks a dipstick to check water levels and temperatures in a series of tanks at a hydraulic fracturing operation at a gas drilling site outside Rifle, Colorado.

Grand River Health, headquartered in Rifle, CO, went live on May 1, 2013 with Empower Payroll, HR, Benefits, Self Service, Quick Query, Applicant Recruitment, Online Enrollment and Performance Management.

Worker checks water levels, temperatures in a series of tanks at an Encana Oil & Gas Inc.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is asking for public input about plans to offer new gas and oil leases for sale in Garfield and Moffat counties in an upcoming lease auction on Aug.

A Grand Junction man says his family's oil shale claims covering thousands of acres in northwest Colorado are valid and an analysis by the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder says he might have a point.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is asking for public input about plans to offer new gas and oil leases for sale in Garfield and Moffat counties in an upcoming lease auction on Aug.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.- The Grand Junction VA Medical Center is on the lookout for Medical Foster Home Caregivers for aging veterans across the Western Slope.

Dutch oven cooking available. Free, but donations appreciated. NEW CASTLE - Be a part of New Castle's 125th Anniversary celebration with a Westernaires performance, motorless parade, spirit walk, and pancake breakfast.

A worker checks water levels and temperatures in a series of tanks at a hydraulic fracturing operation at a gas drilling site outside Rifle, Colo.

Summit Daily/Jessica Smith The Colorado Mountain College campus in Breckenridge.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013, is National Teacher Day and May 6-10 is National Teacher Appreciation Week.

A stronger-than-expected April rebound in job creation and recent dramatic discoveries of vast U.S. oil and gas reserves are helping to lift the American economy out its long funk.

The Two Rivers Drug Enforcement Team arrested eight people over the past two weeks on charges of possessing and selling cocaine, MDMA , as well as LSD and 2C-I , both hallucinogenics.

Hunters who protest a ban on high capacity magazines by threatening to boycott Colorado big game hunting or, in the instance of Craig, place a resolution before the city council requiring heads of households to own a hunting rifle with a high capacity magazine make me smile.

In this Tuesday, May 2, 2006, file photo, the sun sets over a oil refinery in Tarragona, Spain.

A prominent anti-fracking activist from South Africa was in Boulder County this week as part of a national tour of the areas most affected by hydraulic fracturing and other oil/gas operations.

Mike McKibbin Citizen Telegram File Photo The Garfield County commissioners plan to hold a workshop this month to formally kick off a master planning process for the fairground facility in Rifle.

Contributed Photo From left, Elizabeth Navarro of Silt, Donna Fogelof Silt, and Leticia Lozano of Rifle, after receiving their Volunteers of the Year awards at Grand River Health on Friday, April 26.