Canon City News

Fremont Civic Theater will pull out all the stops in honor of its 60th anniversary by bringing a full-scale musical extravaganza, "The Wizard of Oz," to the stage starting today.

Just outside of Canon City is the Garden Park Fossil Area, which gave birth to the one of the great rivalries in paleontology.

Boulder residents were giddy with excitement in 1901, when a farmer near today's Boulder Municipal Airport drilled for oil and hit "black gold." Within a month, the county had 117 oil companies, which the ...

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Winds were not friendly to the fire crews battling the Porcupine Fire near Rifle on Saturday.

Three people have been arrested in the death of a Salida man who was shot to death in July.

CHIEFTAIN PHOTOS/FILE Buckskin Joe's Old West gunfights and scenic railway draw visitors to Canon City each summer, but this summer gasoline prices seemed to have limited the number of travelers.

A federal grand jury has indicted three men in an alleged fraud scheme involving a privately built corrections facility in Colorado.

A 34-year-old man died Monday after a construction truck pulled out in front of him on Interstate 70 near East Vail.

There is an indomitable spirit forged in the bond between human and dog, especially those who have suffered greatly in life, leaned on each other, then rebounded from tragedy.

The political bug can bite when you least expect it. Dan Slater, 36, was a teenager in Las Animas when Colorado Sen.

By John Rebchook , Rocky Mountain News Originally published 09:41 a.m., August 21, 2008 Updated 09:41 a.m., August 21, 2008 The overall Colorado apartment vacancy rate in Colorado was 8.7 percent in the second ...

CHIEFTAIN PHOTO/TRACY HARMON Huge cranes lift forms to position them as part of the 22-foot-deep foundation for the new Colorado State Penitentiary II being constructed at the prison complex just east of Canon ...

The owner of a fast-growing automotive shop said he has become the first such business in Southern Colorado to be solar-powered. At Austin Automotive, waste oil and transmission fluid are filtered and pumped ...

David Showalter is behind several documentaries, explaining the railroad, pioneer and mining history of Colorado.

The state has cited the Cotter Corporation Uranium mill near Canon City for radioactive contamination at an adjacent golf club.

The Cotter Corp. uranium mill has been cited by the state for radioactive contamination at the adjacent Shadow Hills Golf Club.

By ERIC MULLENS ALAMOSA - A 31-year old Canon City, Colo. man was injured when his motorcycle slammed into a car making an illegal U-turn at about 4:45 p.m. Sunday on Hwy.

Your vote is wanted. So much so, candidates for the 5th Congressional District are doing all they can publicly to win your vote.

City Church Ministries holds service City Church Ministries will hold a church service at the Goodwill Conference Room, 630 24 1/2 Road, Sunday, Aug.