Garfield County News

GARFIELD COUNTY, Colorado - Danny Martin filed a lawsuit in federal court Friday claiming he was unnecessarily shot with a Taser twice by a Garfield County deputy during a 2006 traffic stop.

A state lawmaker is asking the Colorado attorney general to investigate gasoline prices in seven Colorado counties, including Pitkin, Garfield and Eagle.

GARFIELD COUNTY, Colorado - Garfield County is turning toward the younger generation for help in the upcoming November elections.

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Terri Saunders Rifle man is sentenced in the severe abuse of his dog.

A Rifle resident has been sentenced to probation and ordered to pay $4,000 to a Glenwood Springs animal shelter after pleading guilty to abusing a dog that later died.

A sea of solar panels stand in an array owned by Rifle just eastof the city. Rifle, which is one of the communities in the bull's eye of Colorado's natural gas boom, is turning to the sun to start powering some ...

A Glenwood Springs animal shelter is trying to find homes for 86 cats rescued from a two-bedroom condominium.

Three cats lay curled up next to each other in a tiny cage at the Colorado Animal Rescue shelter.

Dora, a 3-year-old mastiff, was about half her normal body weight and couldn't put weight on her hind legs when Garfield County Animal Control seized her in June.

A plan to build a base village and revive Sunlight Mountain Resort received a step toward approval from the Garfield County Planning Commission Wednesday night.

Dora, a 2-year-old mastiff, died and her owner was charged with animal cruelty. A Rifle man was given probation for animal cruelty after his mastiff Dora dies; she suffered infections, severe malnutrition, and ...

A Grand Junction man died over the weekend in a trucking accident just five miles north of Parachute.

A trio of mountain lions hung out at the Shugart residence in the Four Mile Creek area near Glenwood Springs on Sunday.

Authorities are trying to find out who planted hundreds of marijuana plants in a small canyon near Parachute.

PARACHUTE, Colorado - A Grand Junction man died after a truck accident near a drilling rig north of Parachute Saturday morning.

Thank you to everyone who made the 2008 Summer Reading Programs at the Rifle Branch library so successful.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - A political mailer sent to area residents that blasts Garfield County commissioner candidate Steve Carter has him and his challenger calling the ad a "smear" tactic.

GARFIELD COUNTY, Colorado - Registration deadline for the Nov. 4 general election is only ten days away.

Police arrested a 26-year-old man on suspicion of DUI around 2:30 a.m. Saturday a little more than three hours after arresting him on another DUI charge.

The Bureau of Land Management on Monday issued a cease and desist order blocking any further building of a controversial 25-mile natural gas pipeline through national forest lands in Gunnison, Mesa and Garfield ...