Larimer County News

Rodeo girls, get ready for a fun-filled ride! 2013 Larimer County Fair & Rodeo Queen, Savannah Cay Martinez, will be hosting the 2013 Rodeo Queens Clinic on June 20 at The Ranch in Loveland.

I've lived in Northern Colorado for over 25 years and I never even knew it existed.

"It really saddens me that the city of Loveland buys a piece of property and then doesn't maintain it, so it turns into a pile of junk.

A crew from Ward Construction delivers dirt this week to the Boys & Girls Club of Larimer County in Loveland as part of a BMX track under development in cooperation with the Loveland Chamber of Commerce's Leadership Loveland program and Loveland Commercial.

Two futures are under discussion for Larimer County's brick-and-mortar presence in Loveland, and neither takes into account the current county office and motor vehicle center at Sixth Street and Cleveland Avenue.

A former Loveland police officer accused of secretly recording and posting Internet videos of a showering woman pleaded guilty Monday to several charges.

A Longmont couple has been arrested and accused of pimping, pandering and "keeping a house of prostitution" in connection with massage parlor raids in Fort Collins earlier this year.

Fort Collins residents and businesses are recycling about 50 percent of their trash, and officials hope to push that to 90 percent or higher.

"Just calling to encourage people to get on the telephone Mondays during working hours and call our county commissioners and encourage them to impose a fire ban on all outdoor fires in Larimer County, before we have a similar thing that they're having down around Colorado Springs.

INEWS103 - Rachel Contizano, 32, holds her son, Kingston's hand, as they leave his daycare center in Auora, Colo., on Tuesday, May 28, 2013.

Parents want their children to attend schools where they can learn, grow and develop skills that will help them succeed in college and the workforce.

A microburst on Carter Lake caused two sailboats to capsize Sunday afternoon, throwing the seven people on board into the water.

It includes 1,700 surface acres of water for boating, stand-up paddleboarding, using Jet Skis and fishing, and it has campgrounds with all the amenities and concerts throughout the summer.

The Colorado Commission on Aging advises the governor on issues that impact people 60 and older.

Ray Tollison regularly stays up until 2 a.m. working at his company's headquarters -- his Fort Collins, Colo., basement -- while his business partners sleep.

Recycling is big in Fort Collins, with nearly 50 percent of the waste generated by city residents and businesses diverted from landfills.

The Veterans Administration in Cheyenne, WY no longer has federal funding to provide essentials and other services to our veterans who go for treatment.

The Larimer County District Attorney intends to decide by the end of the month whether deadly force was appropriate in an officer-involved shooting that left one man dead June 3 at his rural Larimer County home.

Wednesdays, July 3 and 17 "Nature Notes Club Meeting" Join the Nature Notes Club for its regular July meetings.

An former inmate at the Larimer County Detention Center was sentenced to federal prison this week for writing threatening letters to United States government officials -- including President Barack Obama -- while behind bars in Fort Collins.