Rio Blanco County News

On ballot measures this year, the state's voters said "no" 10 out of 14 times, but the loudest "no way" came when measures tried to reach into taxpayers' pockets - even if those taxpayers were oil companies.

RIFLE, Colorado - The Bureau of Land Management released final commercial oil shale regulations on Monday, a move that some Democrats in Colorado's congressional delegation recently sought to block.

An Iowa woman is hospitalized in serious condition following surgery after she was run over by a semitrailer at a construction site on Colorado's Western Slope.

There is an energy resource in Colorado that is greater than all the oil in Saudi Arabia.

When two brothers set off on their annual autumn elk-hunting trip from Kalamazoo and arrived in the Colorado mountains early Halloween morning, they placed one last call to family members after stocking up on ...

Posted on November 12, 2008, by Jim Daly Two brothers caught in a snowstorm north of Glenwood Springs while elk hunting are safe tonight.

Two brothers caught in a snowstorm while hunting elk have emerged from the mountains in western Colorado, four days after a search began for them.

Authorities in two states are searching for two brothers - one of them from Ashland - who were declared missing after they failed to return last week from a hunting expedition in Colorado.

Will the good times roll on forever? Garfield County seems insulated from the economic slump that's affecting the rest of the world.

From the standpoint of some people viewing things from afar, Colorado shouldn't get in the way of development of its world-class oil shale deposits.

A U.S. Interior Department official Monday defended, and Utah's governor supported, the federal government's push to remove regulatory hurdles to commercial oil shale development on public land.

After fanning the flames of the oil shale fire last year in a report the RAND Corporation has ignored oil shale in their current report on unconventional fuel sources -- because of the uncertainty around the ...

A $950,000 grant from Shell will enable Colorado State University researchers to study how best to revegetate lands disturbed by energy development.

Natural gas workers are parking in back of the Garfield County Health and Human Services building in Rifle, hopping on a bus that takes them to Rio Blanco County, under a lease with the county.

As the last day for registering to vote ended Monday, state and local officials said interest in the Nov.

A state lawmaker has asked the attorney general to investigate whether gasoline prices are being fixed in seven northwest Colorado counties - including Eagle County.

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"I think he had the hardest job in the world, and the hardest part of it was the sentencing.

A man and woman were found shot to death inside their home near Rangely on Tuesday, but investigators are saying little else about the case.

A Rangely-area man who earlier this week killed his wife and then himself had just found out his son had been arrested in Utah on suspicion of sexual abuse of a child.