A team of students at Heaton Middle School in Pueblo prepares for a national competition.
They're with the Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement program, also known as MESA, and they just recently won the state competition in Denver for their wind turbine. They say it's fun and rewarding to have the... more »
Students from Heaton Middle School in Pueblo will be headed to a national science and engineering competition in Seattle this summer.
The Heaton team took first place in a statewide MESA contest in the wind turbine challenge on April 13. Yency Gonzales, Melissa Johnson, Sheyanne Bernal, Noah Suazo and... more »
PHOENIX (AP) -- A convicted felon has been arrested by police in a Phoenix suburb after telling officers that she was hiding a handgun in her bra.
Angela Lynn Milhoan is not allowed to possess a firearm. But police in Mesa, Ariz., say the 20-year-old admitted to concealing a... more »
MESA, Ariz. (AP) - The architect of the groundbreaking Arizona immigration law that thrust the issue into the national political debate faces a recall election Tuesday likely to be viewed as a referendum on the state's hardline immigration policies.
The effort to oust Republican state Sen. Russell Pearce has... more »
DENVER (AP) - A group for hunters and anglers says oil and gas companies operating in three northwest Colorado counties have reported almost 1,000 spills totaling about 5.6 million gallons of wastewater, oil, chemicals and other fluids from 2001 to 2010.
The Bull Moose Sportsmen's Alliance said Thursday its... more »
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - A possible name change for a college in Grand Junction has another western Colorado school concerned about identity theft. The Daily Sentinel reported Friday that six of the new names being considered by Mesa State College include the words "west" or "western."
Trustees at... more »
Battlement Mesa residents are awaiting a report on the health effects of oil and gas drilling.
Environmental and health officials planned to release a draft Monday of the study on the proposal by Antero Resources to drill up to 200 wells near Parachute.
Residents in the community of... more »
National Parks in America will offer free admission next week, during National Park Week. More than 100 national parks will allow people to enjoy the parks at no cost.
National Park Week runs from April 17 to 25. Free admission will also be offered on September 25 and November... more »
Garfield County officials are moving ahead with plans for health studies in Battlement Mesa to evaluate the effects of oil and gas drilling on residents. County environmental health director Jim Rada says he has been talking with researchers, state agencies, industry representatives and others to launch the studies. Hundreds of... more »
Fremont is one of six Colorado counties to receive a disaster declaration from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Fremont County experienced damaging frost and freezing temperatures on Oct. 8-11 of last year.
The other counties are all on the Western Slope, which saw a wet spring turn into... more »