De Beque News

Grand Junction Police say they've made a significant break in a brutal beating case on Orchard Mesa over the weekend.

It is difficult to see the remains of the chimney across the Colorado River at mile marker 51 in De Beque Canyon along Interstate 70 unless you know just where to look.

Energy workers took photos of the ram before it was killed. Energy companies working on Colorado's Western Slope have offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the person who poached a bighorn sheep ram.

De Beque Fire Chief Nick Marx was standing in line recently at the Mesa County Health Department to get vaccinated against the H1N1 virus when he received a page.

No one is taking responsibility for ordering the placement of "end of county maintenance signs" around the town of De Beque.

Hospice and Palliative Care has been chosen as the recipient of a $40,000 grant to benefit its "Living with Cancer Program," which provides support for cancer patients who are undergoing treatment and could benefit from palliative care.

As a welder, Snap Morris makes his living from the energy industry, but now the energy industry is threatening to make his living difficult.

Administrators didn't expect students to fill the new Grand Valley Middle School to the brim when the doors first opened this school year.

A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Oct. 28 in the case of 43-year-old Rifle man Kenneth Earl Wright, who was charged with first-degree murder in the bludgeoning death of another man last month.

Grand Valley school and health officials are ramping up their monitoring of sick students, as the fever, aches and chills of the flu season appear to be grabbing hold earlier than normal.

The head and shoulders of a Colorado brown trout rose in slow motion, bulging the calm surface of the beaver pond to inhale my floating grasshopper fly.

Some might quibble with the idea of the De Beque Fire District getting a fire truck that can deal with a fire atop a four-story building when the nearest tall building is two stories.

Jim West, owner of Old West Trucking, told the Mesa County Commission it would cost him $1.5 million to be annexed by the town of De Beque.

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A judge Tuesday set bond at $1 million for a Rifle man suspected of bludgeoning a De Beque man to death with a sledgehammer handle.

After months of squabbling between De Beque and Mesa County, the town finally has updated its growth plan and satisfied the County Commission.

A judge Tuesday set bond at $1 million for a Rifle man suspected of bludgeoning a De Beque man to death with a sledgehammer handle.

A 43-year-old man was arrested Monday afternoon on suspicion of first-degree murder, the Mesa County Sheriff's Office said.

The Union Pacific Railroad keeps finding itself in the uncomfortable position of being at odds with people who want to cross the company's tracks for recreational purposes.