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GAO: BLM headquarters vacancies more than doubled with move

GRAND JUNCTION (AP) – The number of vacant Bureau of Land Management headquarters positions more than doubled as the agency moved those jobs to Grand Junction and other locations in the West...

DATE: Nov 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Statewide setback controversy plays out in Battlement Mesa

Homes sit just 800 feet from pad

DATE: Oct 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado land buys raise water speculation fears

Protecting agricultural sector a concern

DATE: Mar 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Wildlife rehabilitation center in Silt has bear-able year

GRAND JUNCTION (AP) – It’s a busy year, but a bear-able year so far, for Nanci Limbach’s wildlife rehabilitation center southwest of Silt, where bringing up young bruins and getting them bac...

DATE: Nov 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Company tries new tactics to minimize drilling impacts in Colorado

BATTLEMENT MESA – A rig that has begun drilling some of the first of many natural gas wells Ursa Resources plans to develop in this western Garfield County residential community stands out i...

DATE: Jun 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

The wilderness drought

Gridlock in Congress means broad focus may help land bills

DATE: Aug 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

1 abandoned well has state struggling for remedy

GRAND JUNCTION – A company’s failure to take responsibility for a single Montrose County well has state gas and oil regulators again considering what they can do about people they believe ar...

DATE: Jul 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Regional News