Mesa County News

Gov. John Hickenlooper speaks at a news conference at the Capitol on May 22, 2013, where he announced that he was granting a temporary reprieve to death-row inmate Nathan Dunlap.

Ivory Bunting stands a picture of his older sister Phlisia by a cross that the family has just placed by a lake in the Island Acres section of James M. Robb Colorado River State Park.

MESA COUNTY, Colo.- One man is dead and another is critically injured after an accident near Fruita Saturday morning.

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports Mesa County District Judge Richard Gurley set Billy Delacey's trial date during a bond hearing Friday.

Recently the Mesa Land Trust has surpassed 64,000 acres of land they've acquired to conserve permanently for agriculture.

There are 400 bridges in Mesa County and the maintenance and construction are all overseen by officials at the Public Works office.

MESA COUNTY, Colo.- The Mesa County Department of Human Services is asking for the public's help with its Supporting Our Seniors program.

A judge says a trial can proceed against a man suspected in a 1994 rape and murder in Mesa County, after DNA evidence freed another man who spent years in prison for the crimes.

CMU football player/volunteer Wes Crane pushed Donovan, grinning ear to ear, to first base at a Challenger baseball game.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- The father of Elijah Wallace said it was an act of kindness gone bad.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Dust is in the air and with high pollen levels allergy relief isn't very likely as conditions get worse for Memorial Day weekend.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. At a preliminary hearing Thursday morning, a judge has ruled that Douglas Thames will go trial.

Former Grand Junction police officer Eric Janusz was sentenced at a hearing Wednesday morning in the Mesa County Justice Center.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.- The City of Grand Junction will continue to be the only entity in the state of Colorado to exclude sales tax from the Tax Payer's Bill of Rights.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.- One of the men accused in the attempted armed robbery of a Mesa County bank, makes his first appearance in federal court on Wednesday.

Former Grand Junction police officer Eric Janusz, previously found guilty on one of four counts of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust, was sentenced this morning to 8 years to life for the crime.

Unhappy with his neighbors at The House, a shelter for homeless teens near Seventh Street and Patterson Road, John Henry shows a sprinkler he has just had to have replaced for the third time after being broken by cars making U-turns. Area residents have signed a petition outlining their complaints and asked the city of Grand Junction to close the ... (more)

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The United Way prides itself in giving back to the communities in which it resides, and it made good on that promise on Tuesday.

Tuesday night Mesa County School District officials were presented with the first version of the 2013/2014 budget.

Every year, donors to United Way of Mesa County give hundreds of thousands of dollars to local nonprofit organizations.