La Jara News

Delightful quilts and delicious barbeque are both on order for Sunday, July 12, at the 46th Annual Barbecue and Handmade Quilt Auction in La Jara.

The San Luis Valley has won a fair share of the latest Great Outdoors Colorado Lottery grants.

Muralist Fred "Lightning Heart" Haberlein stands in front of one of his creations.

A new road sign cautions drivers to watch for Amish horse-drawn carriages in the valley beneath Colorado's Sangre de Cristo mountains.

The Air Force Academy will spend $228,000 over the next five years on fish, and they aren't even the flying variety.

At a time when OMB has ordered the military to cut its budget, at least one branch of the armed services is telling the number crunchers in Washington to go fish.

On Valentinea s Day, Feb. 14, the San Luis Valley Area Health Education Center is sponsoring a oeLove Your Sweet Hearta at the Family Health Fair set to take place at the La Jara Elementary School.

La Jara and irrigators in the San Luis Valley are watching things closely down their way.

Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., often opened his meetings in the San Luis Valley by referring to the area as "my valley." Should the senator be confirmed as the next secretary of the Interior, those sentiments will ...

U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar , D-Colo., a rancher, was tapped Wednesday by President-elect Barack Obama to head the U.S. Department of Interior.