Rio Blanco County News

I think that medical marijuana should only be prescribed to the terminally ill. This is because if doctors give it to someone who has just a cold, people will eventually begin to abuse one's right to have medical marijuana.

Now that the state has decided to stick to rules requiring disposal of "pit liners" used to contain holding ponds next to gas drilling pads, Garfield County is trying to figure out what it should do with the expected influx of liners.

Local emergency-response teams benefited last weekend from three days of training funded by a $74,000 grant from ExxonMobil.

An article in the Denver Post has questioned how many jobs have actually been created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Potentially big news for the oil and gas industry, Williams Gas is adding three new drill rigs next year on the Western Slope.

The 2008 contamination of two springs in Western Garfield County has been connected with nearby water pits used to hold toxic sludge from gas wells, according to a report filed with a state agency.

TULSA A new processing plant may enable Williams to boost its western Colorado natural gas liquids volumes five times when natural gas prices support such production.

The Utes are expected to return to northwestern Colorado in substantial numbers this weekend - to dance, feast, share their culture and food with visitors who attend the Smoking River Pow Wow, and to remember their ancestors, who for so long called this part of Colorado home.

In the agency's first-ever online sale of oil and gas leases, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management 's Colorado office sold 19 parcels of 28 offered, totaling 7,701 acres, and earned $153,637. Forty-nine percent of the proceeds will go to the state of Colorado, BLM said.

A 19-year-old Battlement Mesa man was not injured when the GMC pickup he was driving crashed into a retaining wall Saturday afternoon near the intersection of Colorado Highway 13 and Rio Blanco Road 5. The man appeared to have fallen asleep while heading east on County Road 5. He failed to stop his pickup at the intersection with Highway 13 and ...

Suicide has been ruled the cause of death afer the autopsy on a man who shot himself during a traffic stop Wednesday, Rio Blanco County Undersheriff Michael Joos said.

Sam Robinson and his wife still aren't convinced it was their dogs that mauled Renee Legro at a Camp Hale mountain bike race last year.

We're learning more about an incident in Rio Blanco County last night, that ended with the self-inflicted shooting death of a suspect.

Library Director Sam Passey says the library has nearly 23,000 cardholders, and about 2,200 of those are people who live outside the county, including about 60 people in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties in Colorado.

Uintah County is considering charging nonresidents $30 to use its library beginning in 2010.

The Bureau of Land Management has scheduled to move its existing offices from Glenwood Springs to a new location in Silt beginning in September.

The Bureau of Land Management has scheduled to move its existing offices from Glenwood Springs to a new location in Silt beginning in September.

Firefighters believe the wildfire, which reached 5,000 acres at one point, started with a lightning strike Thursday.

Two large fires are burning and smaller blazes are sparking throughout the state as the seasonal wildfire threat grows.

Firefighters believe the wildfire, which reached 5,000 acres at one point, started with a lightning strike Thursday.