Chaffee County News

In recognition for their work in promoting affordable housing in Colorado, three Habitat for Humanity affiliates received awards of $1,000 each on May 10 at the annual Camp Colorado conference in Beaver Creek.

The Legislature has finished work and the bills have been passed. That means it's time for Colorado Gov.

The 28-year-old Florida teacher accused of sending her topless pictures to a 16-year-old student and summoning him out of a class to have sex in a closet was arrested at her parents' home in Salida last week.

An Eagle County man was arrested at his home Monday morning by detectives from the Chaffee County Sheriff's Office and the Salida office of the district attorney.

According to numerous witnesses at the scene, the man at the reservoir for a picnic with his friends and family.

A man drowned in Clear Creek Reservoir in Chaffee County early Thursday evening, after the aluminum boat he and two little girls were in began to sink, the Sheriff's Department said today.

The Bureau of Land Management is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by citizens who oppose the artist Christo's latest project.

The Colorado State Patrol says the couple, identified as Maurice and Diane Henthorn, was driving in a Ford Ranger when they were hit head on by a Dodge 2500 pickup.

CHAFFEE COUNTY, Colo. - Two people from Littleton were killed when their Ford Ranger pickup collided head-on with a Dodge pickup along Highway 50 near Salida Saturday afternoon.