Rio Grande County News

Authorities say a body found in an Arizona State Park may be the remains of a 19-year-old mother of two who disappeared in Colorado in 2002.

Forensic pathologists with the El Paso County Coroners office are conducting an autopsy on the remains of a woman believed to have gone missing from Monte Vista, Colorado in 2002.

The remains of Danice Day, a young mother missing from her Monte Vista home ince 2002, may have been found in an Arizona lake, authorities said this morning.

The San Luis Valley has won a fair share of the latest Great Outdoors Colorado Lottery grants.

Some Colorado State Parks gems, clockwise from top: Elephant Rocks, Rio Grande County; Mount Goliath, Clear Creek County; Roxborough, Douglas County; and St.

The Colorado Rural Health Care Grant Council -- funded with a grant from insurer UnitedHealthcare -- has distributed $1.2 million in a second round of grants.

Conservation efforts covering about two million acres in southwest Colorado are among several in 27 states that will share $57.8 million in grants from the Interior Department.

Superfund: In the Eye of the Storm, a new report from The Center for Health, Environment, and Justice and released by Environment Colorado profiles the cleanup efforts at numerous Superfund sites across the nation, which have been affected by extreme weather events and hampered by funding shortfalls.

Rio Grande County is prepping for the possibility that the natural gas boom that has hit parts of the state may soon gain a foothold here.

The commissioners would like to focus on the 2009 budget for this article . Much of what is presented comes from our budget message that is in the budget.

The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday struck down Summit County's ban on mining using cyanide.

A firefighter checks through the rubble of a home under construction that exploded near South Fork on Tuesday.