Orchard Mesa News

This week Crime Stoppers is asking for your help to identify the person or people who burglarized an Orchard Mesa cigarette store.

The proposed and approved but as yet un-built 70-lot subdivision on Running Deer Road has created some question about who needs to take responsibility for the intersection at Running Deer Road and Highway 65.

A local construction company used to digging up dirt and dumping it in massive piles is looking to dump something else this holiday season.

Dave and Kami Oldenkamp of Orchard Mesa thought about adopting for a long time, but they didn't act on it until they saw photos of children in a Thailand orphanage a little more than a year ago.

Bill Ogan and Kevin Riddle were filling their motorcycles with gas when they met a young family in need and came up with an idea.

Local greenhouses say ita s prime time to start buying a popular holiday plant. The Orchard Mesa Greenhouse is looking more like a red house these days as it prepares to start delivering Poinsettia plants.

A distraught and visibly shaking Miriam Helmick did not reach out to law enforcement after she found a threatening greeting card tucked under the doormat at the front door of her home in Whitewater one evening in June 2008, according to testimony Monday.

A big holiday shopping day is right around the corner, but some may enjoy skipping that busy day at the mall.

In 2008 dubious homebuilder Mark Strodtman had plans to develop several acres of property he owned near the Old Spanish National Historic Trail on Orchard Mesa.

When Kate Ellis' father was near death a year ago she performed a long-distance harp vigil for him.

Two Orchard Mesa men were arrested early Monday morning on suspicion of burglary and assault.

Mesa County sheriff's investigators were on the trail of robbery suspects after one of them used cash from a gas-station holdup to buy cigarettes and gum at another gas station, according to an arrest affidavit.

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.

Douglas Edward James was arrested by the FBI in Las Vegas last week for robbing the Redlands Wells Fargo at gunpoint.

An Orchard Mesa neighborhood had its heat turned up late Sunday. At 6:23 p.m., firefighters from the Grand Junction Fire Department rushed to battle a car fire.

Election officials have already received thousands of ballots from voters across the Western Slope, and the clock is ticking to make your vote count on Election Day on Tuesday.

An Orchard Mesa man was behind bars Saturday on suspicion of firing two guns multiple times inside a home and using a sword to cut up the walls while a woman and three children were present, according to the Mesa County Sheriff's Department.

An winterlike storm continued to threaten the area this morning after plowing into town with snow and frigid temperatures that caused power outages and snarled traffic.

People all across the Grand Valley woke up to a winter wonderland on Wednesday. Anywhere from one to three inches fell across the valley overnight Tuesday into Wednesday morning.

The Colorado Division of Wildlife searched a neighborhood in Orchard Mesa today after several residents reported seeing a black bear.