Glenwood Springs News

State Sen. Al White, R-Hayden, whose district includes Glenwood Springs and Rifle, said Friday he plans to introduce legislation next session to regulate the rapidly expanding medical marijuana industry in Colorado.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - A Glenwood Springs teenager has received probation and community service after pleading guilty to making a pipe bomb.

The American Cancer Society Relay For Life events in Garfield County topped the national per capita income rankings for 2009.

The Roaring Fork Business Resource Center and Colorado Mountain College are presenting a series of workshops for people considering starting their own businesses.

Amtrak trains passing through Glenwood Springs were a less consistent sight in recent months, as the California Zephyr route was detoured north through Wyoming for a total of 54 days in July, August and September.

Initial doses of H1N1 vaccine have arrived in Garfield County, but for now are being reserved for people considered at higher risk of complications from the flu.

Kana Brevig, front desk supervisor at the Hotel Denver in Glenwood Springs, helps a customer with information about the hotel and the area.

A Glenwood Springs environmental activist is one of three Coloradans to win national-level U.S. Forest Service awards for wilderness stewardship.

The local school district is asking Garfield County to kick in nearly $1 million toward a proposed affordablehousing project in Carbondale.

White River National Forest officials say they've had to remove more beetle-killed trees from the east side of the forest than the west.

Arlington National Cemetery is accepting a Colorado businessman's donation of marble for its Tomb of the Unknowns.

Aspen is once again a dead-end town. Highway 82 over Independence Pass will remain closed for the winter season, the Colorado Department of Transportation announced Thursday.

The Summit Daily News is sponsoring a sales drive to support the American Red Cross, which is now responding to typhoons and floods in Southeast Asia, a tsunami in the Pacific islands and earthquakes in Sumatra, not to mention countless Americans who have fallen on hard times.

One of the puppies found by Glenwood Springs hunters. This mother dog led hunters to her puppies.

Two of the town's signature businesses these days are the venerable Glenwood Hot Springs and a relative newcomer, the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - Although limited supplies of H1N1 influenza vaccine in Garfield County are being reserved for health care providers, some nasal flu mist is being made available for healthy children, according to county health officials.

According to a Garfield County Sheriff's Office press release, the sheriff's office, along with Garfield County Search and Rescue and NecroSearch International, have begun an environmental assessment of the landscape and wildlife around the Janine Ann Johler crime scene in Canyon Creek, near Glenwood Springs.

Investigators will once again comb through an apple orchard near Glenwood Springs where the dismembered body of an Aurora woman was found over the summer.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - The United States doesn't have a health care "system" per se, at least not until everyone is covered, observes Tim Burns, administrator at Glenwood Medical Associates.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - With less than the expected number of H1N1 vaccines having been distributed through the nation, many areas are dealing with high numbers of reported flu cases.