 02/27/10 Mr. Arthur Mijares of Oakley, California, claims God spoke to him recently and demanded he lead a campaign to change the name of his county's lone mountain from Mt. Diablo to Mt. Reagan. "Diablo," as many of you already know, is Spanish for "devil" while "Reagan" is, as some of you passionately believe, English for much the same thing. So it comes as little surprise that Mijares' divinely ...
02/27/10 SUMMIT COUNTY - To promote pharmaceutical-free drinking water in Summit County, a voluntary Take-Back Program is collecting unwanted medicines at local City Markets. The program kicked off in early December, and it's placed "take-back" bins at both Dillon and Breckenridge grocery stores. "No one should flush prescriptions and other unknowns down the toilet," said Lane Wyatt, the administrator ...
 02/27/10 Democrats made impressive gains in the West in the past election, but the unpopularity of President Obama's agenda should help Republicans make big gains in coming elections, a Republican strategist told party faithful at two dinners in southwest Montana this week.
02/25/10 DILLON - Two separate, three-car wrecks on Dillon Dam early Thursday afternoon sent three people to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries. "It was a little chaotic out there," Steve Lipsher, spokesman with Lake Dillon Fire-Rescue, said of the incidents east of the glory hole on Dillon Dam Road. Trooper Bryan Reed with Colorado State Patrol said the wrecks began after a Jeep Cherokee ...
 02/25/10 The demise of the National Theatre Conservatory can be measured easily enough in numbers. Most dauntingly: The $15 million it would take to resurrect it now, the Denver Center says. But friends of the program are mourning the many immeasurable ways in which the nation's only congressionally chartered MFA program enhanced the city of Denver, and the world.
 02/25/10 MOFFAT COUNTY - Shell Oil Co. said Tuesday it is abandoning its quest for water rights from the Yampa River in northwest Colorado to develop oil shale production, citing delays in the project due to the global economic downturn. The Yampa is the last free-flowing river in Colorado, uninterrupted by dams or other diversions. It winds through Dinosaur National Monument and is a popular rafting ...
 02/23/10 Buyer beware. That's the message a group of La Plata County residents is sending to people looking at land in the gas patch. They say a revision of county oil and gas regulations fails to adequately protect landowners from the effects of gas development.
 02/22/10 Community members and CenturyLink employees recently gathered at a Flathead Emergency Communications Center Board meeting to protest the contract awarded to an out-of-state vendor of communications equipment necessary for processing 911 calls.
02/21/10 Like many in Summit County, driving west out of the tunnel (especially on Sunday afternoon) to see the beautiful mountain range that is home is a welcome sight. I am reminded how lucky I am to live in a mountain community. Ten minutes later I'm at the Gateway to Summit County, aka Silverthorne, marked by factory stores, fast food restaurants, and one of the most congested intersections of I-70 ...
 02/21/10 Southwest Montana Republicans have set the table for their Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinners in Butte and Dillon for next Thursday and Friday, respectively.
 02/21/10 Class B/C showcased the depth of its wrestling talent by winning a tournament-high eight championships Saturday at the second annual Tournament of Champions in Great Falls.
02/20/10 The upset of the first round happened at the Apex Center in Arvada.
 02/15/10 Four members of Edgar County 4-H Livestock Judging Team recently traveled to Denver, Colo., to compete in the 4-H Division of the Livestock Judging Competition.
 02/15/10 40 -- 1. Matthew McAfee, Hoover; 2. Michael Wines, Patriots; 3. Ethan Lovejoy, Huntington; 4. Alex Taylor, Patriots.
 02/15/10 DENVER - The 2010 State Wrestling Championships will take place at the Pepsi Center beginning Thursday February 18th and running through Saturday February 20th.
 02/09/10 Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero played to the crowd he knows best while wrapping up the kickoff of his campaign for governor Monday evening at the Lansing Center.
 02/09/10 Reno County officials are expected to OK a nearly $1 million settlement agreement with Dillon Real E ...
 02/09/10 The Gibson County plant is now offering free tours to the public.
 02/09/10 Dillon High School students spent Tuesday afternoon not in class, but loading more than 1,600 cases of donated water onto a truck that leaves today to Haiti.
 02/09/10 The housing market in Denver has seen an appreciable increase this year despite the bleak scenario e...
 02/08/10 Partisanship and insider politics are blocking efforts to restore Michigan's economic health, Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero said Monday as he kicked off his bid for the Democratic nomination for governor. | 
