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500 K fentayl pills seized in Eagle County
3+ hour, 50+ min ago (273+ words) A traffic stop on the western edge of Eagle County led to the discovery of a huge amount of illegal drugs hidden in furniture boxes. What started as a routine traffic stop on Interstate 70 quickly turned into a seizure of…...
Overdose Deaths New Mexico
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (99+ words) The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel A New Mexico State Police vehicle blocks off a neighborhood in Mountainair, N. M. , where authorities say several people died Wednesday, May 20, 2026, and more than a dozen first responders were exposed to an unknown substance and later…...
Feds release $47 M for Colorado water projects after long delay
1+ week, 4+ day ago (666+ words) The Colorado River at Las Colonias Park in Grand Junction was running at about 350 cfs on April 8. The Trump administration will release $47 million in long-awaited federal funding for four Colorado water projects aiming to fight the Colorado River Basin's prolonged…...
Water leaders participate in forum addressing Colorado's historic drought
2+ week, 4+ day ago (951+ words) NATHAN DEAL/The Daily Sentinel An Aspen Journalism panel held in collaboration with the Ruth Powell Hutchins Water Center at Colorado Mesa University brought four water organization leaders together to discuss Colorado's ongoing drought and what they are doing to…...
Ultramarathon Death Arizona
2+ week, 6+ day ago (80+ words) The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel A crowd gathers to watch runners finish the Cocodona 250 ultramarathon in downtown Flagstaff, Ariz. , on Wednesday, May 6, 2026. A runner competing in a 250-mile Arizona ultramarathon dies after having a medical emergency Chance of Rain: 0% Wind:…...
Western Slope soil conservation districts pledge dollars to Shoshone efforts
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (233+ words) An Xcel truck outside the Shoshone hydropower plant in Glenwood Canyon on April 1, 2026. Five Western Slope soil conservation districts have pledged a total of $30, 000 to support the Colorado River District's $99 million purchase of the Shoshone water rights. Five Western Slope…...
Doc Holliday's arrest in Pueblo case may have saved him from an Arizona lynch mob
1+ year, 2+ day ago (1185+ words) When Marshal Henry Jameson of Pueblo filed larceny charges against John H. (Doc) Holliday in late May 1882, he probably saved Holliday's life. The Pueblo warrant meant Doc couldn't be immediately extradited to Arizona, where many people feared he would be lynched....
Glenwood Springs ICE facility has its own documentation trouble
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (275+ words) The City of Glenwood Springs issued a statement Thursday afternoon after news broke that an Immigration and Customs and Enforcement building in the area lacked legally required records. The pair of. .. The City of Glenwood Springs issued a statement Thursday…...
California firm buys up seven Western Slope mobile home parks
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (696+ words) Just down 25 1/2 Rd from Paradise Park mobile home park is Westlake Park, which has 59-units and sold for $5. 79 million. A 39-unit manufactured home community in Rifle that a California real estate investment firm purchased in December is part of a…...
Feds plan to remove 1, 100 more wild horses, citing wildfires and drought
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (176+ words) Federal land managers plan to round up and remove 14, 000 more wild horses from rangeland across the West this summer and fall, including 1, 111 in Colorado. The U. S. Bureau of Land Management's plans. .. Larry Robinson/The Daily Sentinel Wild horses captured during helicopter…...