Pitkin County News

The campaign officially begins today for a Basalt election April 3 that will determine the majority of the seven-member Town Council and settle whether residents support a ban on plastic grocery bags.

A design for a new Aspen-Pitkin County Airport terminal that, at a preliminary cost estimate of $121.8 million, is on the low end of the cost spectrum will go to county commissioners Tuesday as the preferred alternative among four options.

This year's election cycle will gear up early in Pitkin County, where three commissioner seats are up for election and the primary, if one is necessary, will take place in June instead of August.

It took a Pitkin County jury less than two hours Friday to determine that a homeless man's spitting on an Aspen police officer did not constitute assault.

The Roaring Fork Transportation Authority isn't anywhere close to the philosophy of "drill, baby, drill" when it comes to natural-gas extraction.

A county judge said Wednesday that she will decide within the next two weeks whether the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority should compensate a woman who alleges that a bus driver's negligence led to her broken elbow.

Estimates for the cost of redeveloping the private aviation part of the Aspen/Pitkin County Airport range from a low of $25 million to a high of $95 million, the Aspen Daily News reports.

Study tracks water diverted from Colorado counties to Front Range cities A study commissioned by the Northwest Colorado Council of Governments found that, among the state's six headwater mountain counties, Grand County sends 307,500 acre-feet of water to Eastern Slope communities annually and nearly 99,000 acre-feet of water flows from Pitkin ... (more)

Richardson said in a statement that the man was found in the trees at the intersection of two intermediate runs on North Peak.

Aspen police arrested a man Saturday night at Belly Up on felony drug charges, and later seized more illegal contraband and cash from his vehicle and residence.

The proposed management plan for the 25-acre Grace Park, west of Basalt High School, includes a community garden and pasture on a lower bench, a BMX course on the middle bench and passive open space on the upper slope.

Ice forms on the Roaring Fork River as it flows through Aspen Friday. A new study says 37 percent of the natural flow of the Upper Roaring Fork River is diverted to the Eastern Slope - and more diversions could be in the river's future.

Eagle County's real estate market finished 2011 with more sales for less money than the previous year.

The historic Stapleton house, a dilapidated structure on Owl Creek Road outside Aspen, would be restored under a development plan filed Thursday with Pitkin County.

Susan C. Johnson has a problem. According to action taken by the Aspen/Pitkin County Housing Authority board Wednesday night, she's got to find a local job by the end of this month.

A report handed to Pitkin County commissioners indicates the county known for its glitter and glamour has fewer tourism jobs than a decade ago.

Grand Junction , CO , February 1, 2012- West Star Aviation has been named Business of the Year by the Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce.

The governments of Pitkin and Eagle counties and the town of Basalt are taking over responsibility for appointing members of the Basalt Regional Library District's board of trustees following a rough six months at the library.

Winter gained a bit of traction in January, as snowfall was above average for the first time this season, by about 20 percent.

I've seen people plenty of people kicked out of X Games and other snow sports events for a variety of things.