Weld County News

One of the ways that I like to "geek out" is by perusing various population projections.

A Brink's armored truck lost some of its valuable cargo Thursday after a rear door opened, allowing coins to be spread across Colorado Highway 66 just south of Mead.

Weld County commissioners will hold a work session for residents interested in the gun ordinance at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Weld County administration building, 1150 O St.

When Gasland Director Josh Fox started making what would become one of the most galvanizing forces in the national battle against hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," he thought it would just be a short educational clip for people around his home state of Pennsylvania.

JIM RYDBOM/jrydbom@greeleytribune.com Dylan Reed juggles knives while in front of the Weld County Courthouse this week.

JIM RYDBOM/jrydbom@greeleytribune.com Greeley Central graduates make their way to their seats at the beginning of graduation ceremonies last year at District 6 Stadium.

JIM RYDBOM/jrydbom@greeleytribune.com Greeley Producers yard worker Jennifer Dack watches the cattle while outside the 50th anniversary feeder sale in 2011.

Backing off from their original hard-line oppositional stance to recently enacted gun control measures by the state, Weld County commissioners approved a far tamer measure on first reading last week, ruffling feathers on both sides of the debate.

Tribune File Photo Volunteers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints help a homeowner clean up debris in the Cornerstone area in Windsor back in 2008.

Local nonprofit groups received $17,000 in funding approved by the United Way of Weld County Youth Allocations Committee earlier this month to help make a positive impact on the community.

The morning of May 22, 2008 dawned like most in Colorado during the spring with sunny skies and mild temperatures.

Boulder County's moratorium on processing new applications for oil and gas drilling in unincorporated areas will end, as scheduled, on June 10, county commissioners decided Tuesday.

Calling the town the Pierce Health Resort, the lack of trees in town, along with the lack of hay-fever producing plants, helps people to get over their symptoms if they stay just a few days.

The cloudy skies over Weld County begin to darken even more, especially over Milton Reservoir about 10 miles east of Platteville.

JOSHUA POLSON/jpolson@greeleytribune.com Weld County Sheriff John Cooke speaks during a press conference Friday morning at the Independence Institute, 727 16th Ave., in Denver.

Police arrested a 34-year-old Evans man and a 33-year-old Longmont woman Friday night after investigating a report that a man with a gun in his waistband had made a shooting gesture, with his empty hand, at a family that was inside a car at a convenience store parking lot on the 800 block of Lashley Street.

Jack Meakins, a philanthropist in the Greeley-Evans area who touched an array of people and nonprofits here in his lifetime, died on Friday.

JOSHUA POLSON/jpolson@greeleytribune.com Weld County Sheriff's Cmdr. Donnie Patch rides his horse, Pawnee, past the American flags on display Wednesday morning at the Fallen Officers Memorial during Peace Officers Memorial Day at Bittersweet Park.

Fifty-four Colorado sheriffs have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit over two of the gun bills passed during this year's state legislative session.

Weld County, Colo., Sheriff John Cooke, left, with El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa, center right, and other sheriffs standing behind him, speaks during a news conference at which he announced that 54 Colorado sheriffs are filing a federal civil lawsuit against two gun control bills passed by the Colorado Legislature, in Denver, Friday, May 17 ... (more)