Matheson News

Telluride and Aspen are waging a friendly competition to help the environment by reducing the use of disposable plastic bags in grocery stores.

Arrestees booked into the Garfield County Jail can expect more than ink-stained fingertips, a change of clothes and a visit with a photographer.

Rules and regulations designed to protect the community from sex offenders were put into effect Monday by the Mesa County Commission.

Reports of natural-gas leaks across Durango inundated authorities on Monday but were attributed to an over-injection of mercaptan - a harmless chemical that smells like rotten eggs - into natural-gas supplies.

Chevron's efforts to drill a new well near the Fruitland outcrop moved a step closer to fruition with an agreement approved Tuesday by La Plata County commissioners.

Out of a sea of University of Colorado Colorado Springs graduates, it wasn't so long ago that you could pick out one by his ankle monitor.

The city of Grand Junction will sell a Main Street parking lot to two brothers who plan to build a hotel there.

“I still pee in a cup every three weeks.”

The future's so bright, Alex Matheson can put his shady past behind him. On May 23, the twice-convicted felon paroled after spending a couple of years in prison will join about 700 others in a cap-and-gown ... via The Gazette

“Because it's real, not just a trend.”

Beerdrinker of the Year Matt Venzke won beer for life, but he has to leave Virginia to drink it. via Denver Post

“There's more excitement to me in having relationships (with farmers)”

Next month's Sunset magazine gives a four-page shout out to The Kitchen in Boulder, declaring it "The West's Greenest Restaurant." Of course, this includes spending time on the farms near Boulder. via Denver Post

“All the Pretty Horses"). Case No. 2 of pairing up movie tickets with a copy of the original book. The current movie "Boewulf”

By WENDY KALE Colorado Daily Sunday, December 16, 2007 8:28 PM MST These days many Hollywood blockbusters are coming out of the world of books. via Colorado Daily

“He is just the No. 1 box-office star in the world today.”

For the last man on Earth, Will Smith sure has a lot of friends. The Warner Bros. via Denver Post

“You can see forever once you get up here”

As Blake Roush navigated his white extended-cab Ford F-250 on Monday along a new private road teetering on the side of the Roan Plateau, a smashed water truck at the entrance gate served to remind service truck ... via The Grand Junction Sentinel

“We are just expanding our inventory with the very same equipment we have.”

Mesa County moved ahead Monday to obtain 130 touch-screen voting machines in time for the 2008 general election. via The Grand Junction Sentinel

“This is not all about us as a neighborhood throwing a fit”

Plans to seek a permit to drill up to 20 natural gas wells within several hundred feet of homes near the Rifle Village South subdivision have been put on hold by the company after residents raised concerns. via The Grand Junction Sentinel

A 911 call may be the saving grace for a Rifle man who had been charged with two counts of felony hit and run after an accident in which he hit and killed a man on Interstate 70 with his pickup. via The Grand Junction Sentinel

“Now I'm trying to get back to the way I was”

A 14-year-old shooter and his 16-year-old accomplice pleaded guilty Thursday in the September attack on a 19-year-old man as he answered his door in Clifton. via The Daily Sentinel

“I think there's plenty of space on the site for everything”

Long closed since construction of a new Palisade High School, the old high school could get a new lease on life under town management. via The Daily Sentinel