The Dog Stars is this years One book, One Mesa County
Grand Junction, Colo. - Book lovers wait all year long for One Book, a program about a book selected by Mesa County Libraries.
View ArticleMesa County leaders pass gun rights resolution
Mesa County leaders are joining those speaking out about attempts to restrict gun rights.
View ArticleColorado County Resolves to Up Hold the 2nd Amendment
Mesa County Colorado has passed a far sweeping resolution concerning protecting and following and supporting the 2nd amendment of the United States.
View ArticleAdult literacy tutors needed at library
The Mesa County Libraries ask you to make a real difference in people's lives by helping them learn English.
View ArticleUPDATED: MCSO confirms two injured
UPDATE @ 6:20 P.M. MESA COUNTY, Colo. - The Mesa County Sheriff's Office has confirmed to KKCO 11 News that two people have been injured.
View ArticleClifton Shooting Sends Two to Hospital
A call of a suicidal male ends in two people being sent to the hospital with possible gun shot wounds.
View Article421 Arrested for DUI over Super Bowl Weekend
This year's Super Bowl weekend DUI arrests were higher than any other Super Bowl weekend since the statewide DUI enforcement period was introduced in 2009.
View ArticleSpecial Report: Roles of school resource officers changing
From Columbine to Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook Elementary School, tragic shootings always put the school security questions on the forefront.
View ArticleScabies Outbreak Infects 14% of Inmates
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.- A scabies outbreak in the Mesa County Jail infected 14 percent of inmates a couple of weeks ago.
View ArticlePublic defender appointed for Jensen
24-year-old Heather Lynn Jensen comes into Mesa County District Judge Valerie Robison's courtroom in the Mesa County Justice Center Thursday morning for a brief hearing in the case of the Palisade...
View ArticleA Place at the Table documents hunger in Colorado
"Hunger is hard to recognize in America," CBS's Charles Kuralt intones gravely over images of malnourished children.
View ArticleValentines Day concert
Valentine's day is all about love. No one has more love for our country than the veterans here in Mesa County.
View ArticleSuicide attempt wounds another in Clifton home
A suicidal Clifton man shot himself in the chest Wednesday night and the bullet exited his back, striking a woman inside a home where deputies also found two children and an arsenal of firearms and...
View ArticlePriscilla's Column: a fascination with old GJ phone books
Marjorie Lee's Beauty Shop, 128 S. Fifth, had a stunning Art Deco front and today's it's the former home of Creative Avenues.
View ArticleKeel sentenced to 36 years for 1-year-old's death
The man who pleaded guilty in the death of one-year-old Owen Reak will serve 36 years in prison.
View ArticleLocal companies looking to increase tourism
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Images of the Grand Valley are now in Times Square; it's the latest push to increase tourism to Western Colorado.
View ArticleColorado considers a wrongly convicted compensation bill
"I'm still in jail, unless this compensation bill passes, I don't know what I'm going to do," said Robert Dewey.
View ArticleApplause as man gets maximum prison term in toddler's death
Half of a Mesa County courtroom erupted in applause this afternoon when District Judge Valerie Robison imposed the maximum term for a man convicted in the 2012 beating death of a toddler boy: 36 years...
View ArticleColo. Communities Awarded Grants to Improve Health Access for Kids
Several Colorado counties will soon receive thousands of dollars to increase health access for kids.
View ArticleCome On, Folks, Drones Are Cool -- And They Have Lots Of Uses Besides Killing...
WHENEVER a hiker gets lost in Mesa County, a rugged area in western Colorado, Benjamin Miller of the local police force does not bother to join the search on foot.
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