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The Shoshone Hydroelectric Facility in Glenwood Canyon. The Colorado River District agreed to a deal to buy the major senior water rights associated with the plant from Xcel Energy to protect the instream flows. (Photo by Christopher Tomlinson/The Daily Sentinel)

“How does history feel?” River district, Xcel agree on Shoshone water rights deal

December 20, 2023 at 2:28 p.m.

The Colorado River District and Xcel Energy on Tuesday signed a historic agreement for the $98.5 million purchase of the utility鈥檚 Shoshone hydroelectric power plant water rights that go far...

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland visits the Grand Junction Air Center Complex in summer 2021 to discuss her agency's response to wildfires and the Bureau of Land Management headquarters.

BLM headquarters vacancies more than doubled with move, GAO report finds

November 20, 2021 at 10:21 a.m.

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, before declining...

Colorado wildlife rehabilitation center has bear-able year

October 21, 2017 at 11:00 a.m.

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 back where they...

Garfield County panel OKs additional oil and gas drilling in Battlement Mesa

September 28, 2017 at 4:42 p.m.

Garfield County鈥檚 Planning Commission on Tuesday night approved a second phase of oil and gas development by Ursa Resources in Battlement Mesa, including a well pad within 500 feet of...

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