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The final two bills of the Democrats' gun package passed the House early Monday, marking another chapter in one of the mo...
Free income tax preparation help is available now through April 13th through the IRS=sponsored VITA program. Households with ...
In wake of the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., Salida school officials, parents and police met last night and t...
Officials say that the Salida School District's efforts to secure facilities and offer support to students and staff have...
Fremont County Sheriff's Department reported Saturday that 27-year-old John Allen Dupree of Fort Carson was arrested and ...
The Salida Community Development Department recently mailed surveys to all registered voters in Salida to gain insights about...
Chaffee County Public Health said yesterday that the department has identified an outbreak of pertussis, commonly known as wh...
In unrelated cases, Chaffee County sheriff's deputies arrested two area women on charges of illegal possession of drugs. ...
Mayor Don Stephens threatened to take away Billy Carlisle's right to speak before Salida City Council meetings during cit...
Chaffee County commissioners are denying a former county public health nurse's claims that the county violated federal la...
Fremont and Chaffee County residents can dispose of expired or unwanted prescription drugs during National Prescription Take ...
Election activist group Citizen Center contends Chaffee County Clerk Joyce Reno is improperly withholding records from the gr...
The Salida City Council unanimously approved initiating the process for adoption of a home-rule charter, setting the election...
Buena Vista School District directors approved a change to the district's policy on drug and alcohol use by students at t...
The Salida Hospital District board of directors unanimously voted to provide $50,000 in challenge funds for 2013 to the C...
Officials from the Chaffee County Sheriff's Department have created a tip line at 539-8768 for anonymous reporting of ill...
In response to Merle Baranczyk's editorial in last Fridays Mountain Mail against civil unions, about 20 people protested ...
Chaffee County Build A Generation and the Chaffee County Sheriff's Office will sponsor two community forums on drug and a...
Chaffee County Public Health will sponsor adolescent vaccinations tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Salida Middle School. Vac...
Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center will work with Chaffee People's Clinic to develop a voucher system to provid...
Chaffee People's Clinic will request a "significant contribution" from the Heart of the Rockies Medical Center ...
At about 4:30 p.m. yesterday, the Canon City Police Department was notified of an apparent suicide at the Royal Gorge Bridge....
The Salida woman who admitted she fraudulently collected Social Security benefits was sentenced Friday to five months in cust...
The Colorado House of Representatives passed House Bill 1072 allowing it to move into the Senate. The bill would grant studen...
Chaffee People's Clinic executive director Cara Russell asked county commissioners for a 50 to 100 percent discount on cl...
Free income tax preparation, including free electronic filing for federal and state returns, will be available at the Salida ...
Occupy Chaffee County organizers attracted about 80 people to a teach-in Saturday at the Salida Community Center to learn abo...
Occupy Chaffee County organizers attracted about 80 people to a teach-in Saturday at the Salida Community Center to learn abo...
Salvation Army bell ringers in Chaffee County raised $16,666 during the Holidays this year. Just over $8,000 was coll...
Faced with possibly "closing their doors" after 2012, Chaffee County People's Clinic officials asked Heart of the R...
Sales tax revenue was up in Chaffee County this year when compared to 2010. The Salida 3-percent sales tax generated $3,6...
Lake County residents will be greeted by a new recycling building the next time they go to the landfill. The building was mad...
Colorado Supreme Court justices gave nods of approval this week to maps submitted by the Colorado Reapportionment Commission,...
Chaffee County Commissioners approved the 2012 county budget yesterday.The budget requires dipping into reserves to cover a s...
Poncha Springs Trustees will meet a 6:30pm tonight in the Town Hall. Agenda items include the final draft of the parks and re...
Ark-Valley Humane Society raised more than $3,500 during the annual Holliday Gala held Saturday night at the Salida Commu...
The Ark-Valley Humane Society Holiday Gala at the Salida Community Center will take place tomorrow night from 6pm to 9pm. A s...
No action was taken by Chaffee County Commissioners yesterday after other elected officials requested a 2 to 2.5 percent pay ...
Chaffee County ranks below the national poverty rate for school age children, while the median household income is above the ...
Colorado Reapportionment Commissioners voted 6-5 this week, in a party line split, to approve new Democrat-drawn maps for red...
Mt. Princeton Geothermal has commissioned a magnetotelluric survey in the Chalk Creek area. The purpose of the survey is to v...
Chaffee County voters didn’t approve a use tax on election day, so the 350 to $450,000 needed annually to finance e...
The surviving children of Robert Ebbert were awarded $5,500 from Chaffee County October 21 as a settlement agreement and ...
Voters gave a “clear directive” to Chaffee County Commissioners to live within their means and create a balanced ...
Poncha Springs Planning Commissioners will conduct a special meeting and public hearing to review the finalized town comprehe...
Officials continue to work on the Salida City budget. Raises for city employees remain in the proposed budget and will be dis...
The Colorado Low-income Energy Assistance Program to provide financial assistance with home heating bills will accept applica...
Possible spending reductions will be considered by Poncha Springs after the proposed 2012 town budget projected a $128,00...
30-year-old Brenda Harding, accused of having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old Buena Vista boy who later committed su...
Meetings are scheduled today at Poncha Springs Town Hall, including a budget work session at 6pm for town trustees and a Plan...
Chaffee County 11th Judicial District Court dismissed the case against 60-year-old Bob Mishata of Poncha Springs because of i...
Closing for the sale of the Buena Vista Family Practice Clinic to Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center for $2.75 ...
A Salida woman charged with Social Security crimes for allegedly taking about $70,000 in benefit payment to which she was...
A record breaking 72 mountain bikes rode the Continental Divide yesterday during the 13th annual Monarch Crest Crank group ri...
A federal grand jury this week indicted 43-year-old Kaveen Anne Rose of Salida for taking $70,000 of Social Security disa...
A new poll released yesterday showed Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper holding a high approval rating, even among Republicans a...
An alert about a fraudulent Medicaid and Medicare survey was recently issued by the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy...
30-year-old Brenda Lynette Harding of Canon City pleaded guilty yesterday to a felony charge of sexual assault on a child inv...
30-year-old Brenda Lynette Harding of Canon City pleaded guilty yesterday to a felony charge of sexual assault on a child inv...
The Colorado Department of Corrections has effectively moved the state’s death row from Canon City to Sterling to settl...
The economy is tough and it’s taken a toll on what kids are finding under their pillows. According to a recent Visa sur...
Twelve Chaffee County jurors returned guilty verdicts on three rape related charges against Fritz Schneider in connection wit...
Immunizations will be available to Chaffee County residents through a traveling health clinic beginning in August at the publ...
Western Slope Consulting led a comprehensive plan meeting of Poncha Springs officials and residents at the Chaffee County Fai...
The deadline for return of Poncha Springs comprehensive plan surveys has been extended to Friday. Preliminary survey results ...
Chaffee County Commissioners will conduct to public hearings during their regular meeting tomorrow morning at the Chaffee Cou...
About 50 fires near the Arizona New Mexico border are contributing smoke in the San Luis and Arkansas River Valleys and much ...
Mill levies, sales tax increases and sales tax reallocations were among topics discussed for balancing the Chaffee County bud...
A proposal at the state Capitol to set a limit for how stoned is too stoned to drive died last night in the state Senate. In ...
Charges were filed yesterday in the case of 30-year-old Brenda Harding of Canon City, accused of sexual assault on 15-year-ol...
Charges were filed yesterday in the case of 30-year-old Brenda Harding of Canon City, accused of sexual assault on 15-year-ol...
Adoption of a medical marijuana ordinance will be considered by Salida City Council members during their regular meeting at 6...
30-year-old Brenda Lynette Harding of Canon City made her first appearance yesterday in District Court on two felony charges ...
Canon City officials investigating the death of a Buena Vista teen have arrested 30-year-old Brenda Lynette Harding of Canon ...
Today is Tax Day.Federal and state tax returns must be postmarked today.The deadline was moved from Friday to today because o...
The annual 9 Health Fair in Salida attracted 1,379 people seeking free and low cost health screenings Saturday at the Salida ...
Saguache officials are confirming that a recent death has been associated with the hantavirus. The laboratory at the Colorado...
A U.S. District Judge this week dismissed the lawsuit filed by children of an intoxicated man who committed suicide in the Ch...
A state House committee last night killed a civil-unions bill that would have given gay couples in Colorado many of the right...
The first radioactive fallout from Japan’s tsunami-ruined nuclear reactors has been detected by Colorado air-monitoring...
The Colorado State Patrol responded to an accident on Wolf Creek Pass over the weekend that involved a van carrying a number ...
Counselors were in the Custer County School this week to talk to students about the suicide of a 9-year-old Silver Cliff boy....
A Bipartisan panel conducted public hearings in Alamosa and Pueblo over the weekend in an attempt to redraw congressional dis...
A Bipartisan panel conducted public hearings in Alamosa and Pueblo over the weekend in an attempt to redraw congressional dis...
Adopting a memorandum of understanding with LiveWell Chaffee County will be considered by Salida City Council members during ...
Colorado’s law to prevent bullying in schools is getting a new look this year in the legislature.A House committee plan...
A lawsuit challenging the U.S. Forest Service adoption of Motor Vehicle Use Maps for Pike and San Isabel National Forests was...
Saying that just cutting spending wasn’t the answer to Colorado’s budget problems, a Democratic state senator yes...
The new Ark-Valley Humane Society Sunshine Shelter in Poncha Springs is set to open today. The primary focus of the Sunshine ...
The population of Salida decreased by 268 people in the last ten years according to new census numbers. Chaffee County popula...
(February 16, 2011)Spending on K-12 education would take the biggest hit in state history, colleges would get less money, sta...
(February 7, 2011) Chaffee County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 60-year-old Robert Mishata of Poncha Springs on a county ...
(February 1, 2011) With the passage of new legislation, persons with disabilities will have new requirements that must be met...
(January 17, 2011) The League of Women Voters of Chaffee County has named Susan Bristol as the recipient of the 2011 League o...
(January 14, 2011) Leadville’s next mayor will be earning the highest salary of any Leadville mayor. The city council a...
(January 12, 2011) In only two months this season, 698 Chaffee County residents have received federal help with heating bills...
(January 4, 2011) Engineers for the City of Salida’s wastewater treatment plant are recommending officials award the pr...
(December 31, 2010) Starting January 1st, Coloradans building new homes have to be offered water-saving options like low-flow...
(December 29, 2010) Preliminary information released by the U.S. Census Bureau shows Chaffee County’s population grew b...
(December 22, 2010) Colorado is still growing like gangbusters according to preliminary U.S. census numbers released yesterda...
(December 17, 2010) A state lawmaker plans to introduce a bill next year that would make Colorado the fourth state to recogni...
(December 14, 2010) The Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area received $425,000 from the Colorado Department of Public Health t...
(November 22, 2010) Salida Planning Commission members will meet at 6pm tonight in city council chambers in the Touber Buildi...
(November 22, 2010) Salida officials attempted to overcome shortfalls as they prepared the 2011 budget facing revenue predict...
(November 18, 2010) Angel of Shavano Recycling rolled the first of three new collection containers into the lot behind Salida...
(November 12, 2010) Representative Tom Massey of Poncha Springs was awarded the legislator of the year award by the Denver Wo...
(November 10, 2010) Despite less federal money and more cases of assistance, the Low-Income Energy Assistance Program will be...
(October 29, 2010) Nine current or former Lake County sheriff’s deputies allege in a lawsuit that they have not been pa...
(October 28, 2010) The Lake County Commission has asked the Leadville City Council and Fire Chief Bob Harvey to cut more than...
(October 27, 2010) Chaffee County Commissioners yesterday were presented a 2011 draft budget that shows a $745,000 deficit. R...
(October 22, 2010) Chaffee County Public Health will hold adult walk-in flu vaccine clinics next Tuesday in Salida and Wednes...
(October 20, 2010) 1.5 million doses of flu vaccine have arrived in Colorado, about 10 percent of which has been distributed ...
(October 18, 2010) Bill Reeves, candidate running for Chaffee County Commissioner, has received the most contributions with $...
(October 14, 2010) The three men vying to become Colorado’s next governor spent much of an hour-long debate last night ...
(October 14, 2010) Results from the Salida Community Priorities Survey will be discussed during a public workshop today at 5:...
(October 12, 2010) The financial report for St. Vincent Hospital in Leadville shows less revenue and more expenses than budge...
(October 11, 2010) Both the Leadville City Council and the Lake County Commission have proclaimed October as domestic violenc...
(October 7, 2010) A public information forum about Amendments 60 and 61 and Proposition 101 will be held tonight in the Salid...
(October 5, 2010) Chaffee County Public Health received a grant to offer four free vaccinations this year. Funded by the Amer...
(September 29, 2010) The Poncha Springs Trustees were updated on the recent death of 54-year-old Steve Colby during their reg...
