Eagle County News

The man who died in a shooting at the Sandbar in West Vail on Saturday night has been identified as Gary Bruce Kitching, 70, of Carbondale.

The Vail Valley Medical Center will add helicopter transport service to Eagle County and hospitals in surrounding areas.

Vail business leaders are cautiously encouraged by an increase in winter season advance bookings to Eagle County Airport.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the wilderness seems to be the message that both sides are sending in the recent debate over the use of some of Colorado's most prized forest lands.

A $1 million grant the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs will share with two other educational entities will teach 90 secondary school math teachers in Eagle County how to instruct kids how numbers can be fun.

Eagle County voters have been uninspired by the Nov. 3 election while Pitkin County voters showed slightly more interest.

Election Day is closing in, so Roaring Fork Valley residents of Pitkin and Eagle counties must either get their ballots in the mail or, to be safe, deliver them to their county clerk's office.

Dead lodgepole pines ring a Forest Service campground. Courtesy U.S. Forest Service GLENWOOD SPRINGS - The U.S. Forest Service's increased focus on removing dead trees along roads, trails and campgrounds won't hit Pitkin and Garfield counties nearly as hard as Eagle and Summit counties, according to the organizer of the effort.

Eagle County school district saved nearly $1.3 million in a recent bond refinancing.

VAIL, Colorado - Remodeling the old Battle Mountain High School in Eagle-Vail into a pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade school would cost just under $24.2 million, a new district cost estimate suggests.

Police are investigating a claim that a teacher at St. Clare of Assisi Catholic School in Edwards told students to duct tape their classmates' mouths shut.

The Eagle County Sheriff's DepartmentA is investigating allegations of a duct tape incident at a private Catholic school.

Eagle County will host a public meeting on the Hidden Gems Wilderness Proposal from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct.

A Basalt man won a sports bet but all he collected were two felonies, according to police.

Constructions workers Thursday installed 90 photovoltaic solar panels on the roof of the partially renovated Eagle County Justice Center as a part of the addition and remodel of the facility Thursday in Eagle.

EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado - Eagle County has received millions in state and federal money in the last several months, and may be in line to receive millions more.

With the November election quickly approaching, the only contested school board race in Eagle County is heating up.

Ever wonder what life was like around this valley 600 or 700 years ago? Kevin Black, assistant state archaeologist, will be discussing that topic at the annual meeting of the Eagle County Historical Society on Monday.

Representatives of the Hidden Gems Wilderness Campaign Friday met with officers from the Colorado Army National Guard to talk about expanding Vail Valley wilderness and the high-altitude military training program based at the Eagle County airport.

The Aspen Skiing Co. is the largest single contributor to the campaign urging passage of Referendum 1A - the Energy Smart Local Improvement District measure on the Nov.