Rio Blanco County News

An autopsy was performed Sunday on the body of a man found dead inside a Rangely home, but authorities continue to clamp down on details about what they're considering a homicide.

At a time of general contraction in energy developers' drilling operations in western Colorado's Piceance Basin, one company working fairly quietly in Rio Blanco County has been proving to be the exception to the rule.

A new survey of petroleum industry executives found Colorado is considered the least attractive state for oil and gas investment out of 27 states producing those fuels.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - In his sixth month in office, Garfield County Commissioner Mike Samson said he is a "peacemaker" in conflicts between his fellow commissioners.

ExxonMobil Production Company announced today the completion of new field processing capacity at its Piceance Project on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains in Rio Blanco County, Colorado.

Once a frightening monolith of a disease, lung cancer slowly is being recognized as not a single ailment, but several.

This spring, local buses will get new equipment to reduce emissions, cut fuel consumption and make the buses safer for students.

Millions of dollars will go to projects in Mesa and Garfield counties as part of the latest round of state energy-impact grants.

A newly planted flowering crab-apple tree at the entrance to the Mesa County Justice Center requires 18-year-old Lyndon to look squarely at his past.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - Garfield County Court Judge Paul Metzger sentenced a 17-year-old to between 12 and 24 months in the Colorado Division of Youth Corrections Wednesday for his part in four burglaries in the Veltus Park area in March.

If the oil shale industry needs new power sources in order to move into commercial production in Northwest Colorado, nuclear power plants might be an acceptable source, according to the executive director of Associated Governments of Northwest Colorado.

The federal government has been given extra time to respond to lawsuits challenging Bush-era oil shale decisions, amid increasing signs of a shift in thinking on the issue under the Obama administration.

The worlda s richest deposit of oil shale lies in western Coloradoa s Piceance Basin in the Eocene Green River formation.

A proposal to gradually phase out the business personal property tax has stalled in the Colorado Senate despite picking up bipartisan support.

Williams Production RMT has paid more than $400,000 that will be used to help reduce pollution by school buses in Garfield and Rio Blanco counties under a settlement with the state over air quality violations.

A study by an environmental group says energy companies have acquired hundreds of water rights for oil shale development and that exercising those water rights could transform western Colorado by drying up agricultural lands.

More than 400 construction workers recently put finishing touches on a gleaming new natural gas processing plant in Rio Blanco County scheduled to go online in summer.

Mar 8, 2009 7:08 pm US/Mountain Exxon Mobil plans to dramatically increase its natural gas production in western Colorado while other companies are scaling back operations.

A good deal of work has disappeared with 40 to 60 percent fewer natural gas drilling rigs working in the Piceance Basin this year compared to last.

Ranchers and oil shale officials listened to a Tuesday, Feb. 17 presentation on oil shale and its possible affects to agricultural water.