San Luis News

A proposed $180 million high-voltage transmission line into the San Luis Valley picked up support Tuesday night from the county commissions of San Luis, Rio Grande and Saguache counties.

For the young woman who assumes the title of Miss San Luis on Friday, the crown will involve more than just being a beauty queen.

The 8th Annual San Luis Valley Parent Institute Conference will take place on Saturday, Nov.

During the national debate over health-care reform , we often hear warnings about "socialism." It's supposed to scare us, but the truth is that, in some ways, socialism has a decent track record in the West.

San Luis High School held its seventh annual multi-cultural day on campus on Oct.

Colorado has hired a group called Veterans Green Jobs to weatherize about 240 houses in the San Luis Valley in the southern part of the state.

The first $87 million of a half-billion-dollar state program to build better schools in Colorado will be used for five projects in San Luis Valley.

The Governor's Economic Recovery Team announced it will launch a statewide tour, visiting all 64 counties, to help Colorado's small businesses and minority communities learn about opportunities with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

This is the weekend that the villages of Chama and San Luis, Colorado celebrate their respective patron saints - Santiago and Santa Ana.

The premier art event of the season, Keep the Rio Grande Grand is a fine art sale and show to benefit the conservation work of the Rio Grande Headwaters Land Trust.

The Colorado Department of Transportation begins another American Recovery & Reinvestment Act project today, July 13, 2009.

Today, U.S. Senator Mark Udall announced the opening of his Senate office in Pueblo.

Front row: Preston Mehring, Cole Collier, Courtney Jenson, Meg Longcor and Bailey Eklund.

Any romantic notion I might have had of comparing myself to Lawrence dashing among the dunes of Arabia was rapidly fading as the spongy ridge of sand leading to Star Dune at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve became steeper.

The San Luis Valley has won a fair share of the latest Great Outdoors Colorado Lottery grants.

Eighteen Morgan and Washington county 4-H members, two teen counselors and three 4-H leaders attended a four day 4-H Camp in the San Luis Valley last week.

Ornithologists and "want-to-be's" like me gathered in Alamosa the third week in May for a five-day bird search/count and celebration in the San Luis Valley and environs.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has narrowed its focus to 22,000 acres in the San Luis Valley that it would consider for utility-scale solar projects .

Muralist Fred "Lightning Heart" Haberlein stands in front of one of his creations.

The old men and women of the oldest town in Colorado awaken early because it is their habit even now when their farm days are long behind them.