Weld County News

Police say it's a case of kidnapping, ransom demands, robbery, assault and arrests.

Weld County deputies and Firestone police arrested two men Friday for auto theft, including a 19-year-old Longmont man.

Name: Tom Pettit. Age: 60. Residence: Kersey. Position sought: Weld County Commis-sioner, at-large. Political experi-ence: Nine years as a Kersey Town Board Trustee, four years as mayor pro-tem. Was town board liaison to the Kersey Senior Center, participated as a member of the Upper Front Range Transportation Board, the Weld County Road 49 ...

Mark Strodtman looks back at family and friends as he is led away in handcuffs by Weld County Sheriff's Deputy Brian Bartnik Wednesday afternoon after being found guilty on 22 counts of theft and forgery and one count of racketeering.

Mark Strodtman, 52, of Windsor, was found guilty Wednesday afternoon in District Court in Greeley of felony racketeering, theft and forgery after a 12-day jury trial.

Famed Colorado nature photographer John Fielder will present his latest book, Ranches of Colorado, at 6 p.m. on Nov.

A company that wants to mine uranium in Weld County claims that proposed state rules on protecting groundwater might be illegal.

Two people are hospitalized after their Weld County farmhouse exploded and burned.

A man was in critical condition and his girl friend in serious condition following an early Monday morning fire and explosion about four miles south of Galeton, or about 12 miles northeast of Greeley.

WELD COUNTY - Investigators with Platte Valley Fire believe that a wall mounted propane heater may have been responsible for a leak that resulted in an explosion that seriously injured a couple and destroyed a home early Monday morning.

Volunteers Tim Beckman, left, of Greeley and Craig Leonard of Windsor, load food into a truck for the 9Cares Colorado Shares food drive for the Weld County Food Bank at the WestLake King Soopers in Greeley on Saturday.

The National Weather Service in Denver has issued a winter storm watch for Weld County and much of northern Colorado in effect from Saturday evening through Sunday afternoon.

Weld County Sheriff John Cooke's department-issued gun is now on the streets after a Greeley man stole it from the sheriff's unmarked police car parked at his home.

Weld County Sheriff John Cooke's department-issued gun is now on the streets somewhere after a man admitted to breaking into his unmarked police car parked at his home.

Nature photographer John Fielder's pictures of Eagle Rock Ranch in the Chalk Bluffs area of northern Weld County are featured in his newest book, "Ranches of Colorado." For NextNC John Fielder, famed Colorado nature photographer, will talk about his latest project and book, "Ranches of Colorado," which features a Weld County ranch, at Colorado ...

While the Balloon Boy's parents are set to plead guilty today to perpetrating a hoax that transfixed the nation, still unanswered is how much, if any, they will have to pay for the fruitless frantic four-hour search for their son.

Saturday's Hispanic Women of Weld County 21st anniversary Awards & Scholarship Breakfast will feature keynote speaker Margarita Sofia Alarcon.

When Weld County stretched from its current western border to the Nebraska-Colorado border, spanning 10,500 square miles, some 200 towns settled and grew in the area.

The discovery of a body along a rural road in Weld County this morning is being investigated as a likely hit-and-run, authorities said.

Weld County consumers are living proof of the recession, as sales taxes collected for cars, building materials and restaurants contracted in the second quarter of the year.