Conejos County News

Wed, December 16, 2009 Rep. John Salazar is not ready to support a land exchange for the Village at Wolf Creek, but he hasn't ruled it out, either.

Send this Headwaters page to a friend or colleague: Colorado county halts waste shipments from N.M. laboratory When residents of Antonito, a small town in Conejos County in southern Colorado, discovered that low-level nuclear waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory was being transferred from trucks to trains in their town just a few hundred yards ...

A Salt Lake City company that ships hazardous waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory agreed Thursday to suspend their transfer operation at Antonito for two days, while alarmed Conejos County officials decide how to regulate the operation.

Manassa Police Chief Charles DeHerrera was arrested Nov. 12 by Conejos County Sheriff's deputies who responded to a disturbance call in the community.

Share + Nov 4, 2009 3:43 pm US/Mountain The former executive director of the Alamosa Housing Authority admitted on Wednesday she embezzled $1.3 million in a wide-ranging scheme over nine years and used the money to gamble.

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter expressed his sympathy to the locked-out workers of the Harborlite Corp.

Buy Fresh, Buy Local! At the La Jara Farmers Market, Serving all of Conejos County.

Felix A Byrne, better known as Fil Byrne, was one of the most interesting of Pagosa Springsa TMs early pioneers.

With nearly 15,000 acres under the microscope to determine its suitability for commercial-scale solar development, Conejos County could bear the brunt of the Bureau of Land Management's efforts to harness the sun in the San Luis Valley.

With nearly 15,000 acres under the microscope to determine its suitability for commercial-scale solar development, Conejos County could bear the brunt of the Bureau of Land Management's efforts to harness the sun in the San Luis Valley.

Buy Fresh, Buy Local! At the La Jara Farmers Market, Serving all of Conejos County.

Coloradoa s San Luis Valley is full of natural and historic places to visit, often times they are hidden off of old dirt roads, forgotten paths and Jeep trails.

Delightful quilts and delicious barbeque are both on order for Sunday, July 12, at the 46th Annual Barbecue and Handmade Quilt Auction in La Jara.

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

Larry Winget, a reporter for Alamosa's Valley Courier newspaper, has seen a lot of things during his five years as a journalist.

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