Gunnison County News

We are just getting to the Memorial Day weekend and Colorado has already had two major wildfires this year.

Gunnison County may have an extended deposit of rare earth minerals - which are vital in manufacturing electronic equipment and whose main supplier is China, according to Arizona-based US Rare Earths Inc.

EAGLE, Colorado - Things just got easier for people who want to make their homes more energy efficient.

The trails that have made Gunnison County world-renowned for mountain bikers also are a haven for runners.

Water flows are inextricably linked with the economies of the headwaters counties and the West Slope, a fact well-known to residents but highlighted in a report that was recently presented to experts and officials in the Arkansas River Basin, which flows east to southeast Colorado.

New industrial park pitched Proponent says plan was born amid slim stock of lots Times Editor Originally published 2012-05-10 A slim stock of industrial lots for sale in Gunnison County has led one local developer to pitch a plan for a new park.

Water flows are inextricably linked with the economies of the headwaters counties and the West Slope, a fact well-known to residents but highlighted in a report that was recently presented to experts and officials in the Arkansas River Basin, which flows east to southeast Colorado.

More than 1 million acres of roadless national forest land would get stronger protections under a tentative rule announced Wednesday, while some lands would remain open for ski resort expansion and for temporary roads for coal mining.

The Bureau of Land Management will sell rights to mine coal in Gunnison County's Elk Creek region next month.