Loma News

School District 51 met 86.2 percent of its Adequate Yearly Progress targets for the 2008-2009 school year, although that was still short of what is required in Colorado.

It's not country, it's not city. The address, 1216 18 1/2 Road, is kind of in between.

Kathleen Creamer of Montrose, Colo., sent in this photo of Britney Creamer and her Reserve Supreme Female, Lazy JB Shiloh 830 at the Colorado State Fair.

Pretty, second-grade school teacher, Leah Reynolds, welcomed us to her 6-1/2-acre Loma ranch, where she and husband, Dan, raise a herd of alpacas, in addition to their younger son, who is a junior at Fruita Monument High School.

Despite harrowing economic times, here in the Grand Valley we're still witness to some pretty amazing displays of determination and generosity.

A reward of up to $1,000 is being offered to anyone who provides information identifying the vandals who damaged the historic Devils Kitchen picnic shelter the night of Aug.

Author to present Desolation Canyon history James M. Aton will speak about his new book "The River Knows Everything: Desolation Canyon and the Green" today, Sept.

A campaign to transfer administration of the Oro Loma Elementary School to a Fresno County school district may cause more harm than good, residents learned at a special meeting Wednesday night.

A Mack mother is facing charges for not having her four kids buckled up when she rolled her truck.

Decades ago, when he first planned the ephemeral skywriting that will fill the skies above the Arroyo Seco for fleeting minutes on Saturday, you almost wonder if former Old Pasadena artist Bruce Nauman had in mind, presciently, the murderous arsonist who torched the Angeles National Forest.

Jurors deliberated about an hour Wednesday before delivering a not guilty verdict for a former Grand Junction police officer who accidentally shot a co-worker at a local gun store in 2008.

Six jurors listened to testimony mostly from law enforcement officials Tuesday during the first day of a two-day trial for former Grand Junction police officer Richard Bacher.

A Loma woman was arrested Saturday after she allegedly assaulted a sheriff's deputy who had responded to a domestic disturbance at her house, the Mesa County Sheriff's Department said.

A 42-year-old woman was arrested after she apparently took some pills and ran around her home naked breaking things, authorities said Sunday.

Responsible for helping the largest area in Colorado, the Western Colorado Chapter of the American Red Cross depends on volunteers to operate.

Montrose says goodbye today to police Sgt. David Kinterknecht, the officer shot in the line of duty on Saturday when he and others answered the call to a domestic-violence incident.

VIEW SLIDESHOW MESA COUNTY - A wildfire on the Western Slope resurfaced on Monday and forced Interstate 70 to shut down again because flames spread to the median.

It was another busy day for fire crews and law enforcement as a 200 acre wildfire burning near Fruita shut down I-70 for the second time in two days.

Firefighters believe they've contained a 200-acre fire that late this morning jumped a 5-mile stretch of Interstate 70 between Fruita and Loma.

A fire near the old Fruita refinery broke out at just after 6:30 p.m. Sunday. The fire shut down the highway for two hours but things now seem to be under control but last night was another story.