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Members of the media and key project partners got an opportunity to hike Hanging Lake Trail during the ground-breaking to show the $4.5 million trail reconstruction project in Glenwood Springs, Colorado on May 2, 2024. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Iconic Hanging Lake Trail now fully restored 鈥� and improved

June 22, 2026 at 9:53 a.m.

"An extraordinary coalition came together not just to restore the damaged Hanging Lake Trail ... preserving future access to one of Colorado鈥檚 most beloved trails.鈥�

Two teenagers, 21-year-old charged, held on $2M bond in ‘brutal’ Fruita murder

November 25, 2025 at 11:18 a.m.

Two teenagers and a 21-year-old allegedly conspired and carried out a brutal bludgeoning murder in Fruita, according to an arrest affidavit, discussing how to torture and murder the 62-year-old victim...

Students walk across the Colorado Mesa University campus in this 2017 file photo. (Christopher Tomlinson/The Daily Sentinel)

White supremacist invited to speak at Colorado Mesa University by student club, sparking backlash

March 12, 2025 at 11:37 a.m.

Jared Taylor has written for a publication that the Southern Poverty Law Center lists as a white nationalist hate group, and has often been associated with white supremacists and Neo-Nazis.

A 5-mile loop hike of Wedding Canyon and Lower Monument Canyon trails in Colorado National Monument takes you by the 450-foot-tall Independence Monument and other sandstone rock formations. (Photo by Jennifer Broome/Special to The Denver Post)

Hiker death reported in Colorado National Monument

June 13, 2024 at 8:28 p.m.

A 54-year-old woman died in Colorado National Monument on Monday afternoon while hiking the Lower Monument Canyon Trail.

FILE – Tina Peters speaks to supporters at her election watch party in Sedalia, Colo., on June 28, 2022. A judge on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, threw out a lawsuit challenging a primary election recount lost by Peters who alleged voting fraud in her failed bid to become the state’s top election official. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert, File)

Tina Peters appeals federal court ruling

January 12, 2024 at 12:16 p.m.

Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters isn鈥檛 giving up in her attempt to get the federal courts to block her upcoming trial on state criminal charges.

Fresh peaches from Ela Family Farms at the Boulder County Farmers Market Aug. 12, 2023. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

Palisade grower using digital art to promote local agriculture

September 19, 2023 at 4:02 p.m.

Palisade鈥檚 peach growers have long looked for ways to get their fruit directly in the hands of consumers from farmers markets to roadside fruit stands, but this year one grower...

From left, Jose Angel, Brian Cox and Kaelin Laubscher hold a possible record-breaking peach at Black Bear Orchards in front of Mt. Garfield on Wednesday. The Palisade orchard claims to have grown a peach weighing 2.03 pounds, breaking the previous record of 1.8 pounds if confirmed by the Guinness World Records. The orchard held a contest between employees to see which group could grow and find the largest peach during harvest. Mario Hernandez Cruz found the peach and was awarded $1,000 to him and $1,000 to his group.

Palisade orchard claims to have grown world’s heaviest peach

September 7, 2023 at 2:57 p.m.

Palisade has long been known for producing some of the tastiest peaches in the country, but now appears to also grow the largest -- with one orchard claiming to have...

Could Grand Junction become a government-designated tech innovation hub?

April 28, 2023 at 11:11 a.m.

Could Grand Junction鈥檚 future include serving as a rural hub for the development and manufacturing of technology such as semiconductors?

Christian Flores (center), Navy sailor, 23, visits with his parents, Marni and Fernando, at the Grand Junction Regional Airport after returning from his deployment on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on Tuesday evening.

Colorado serviceman recounts 341 days at sea during pandemic

March 28, 2021 at 12:52 p.m.

Christian Flores and thousands of others on the USS Nimitz sailed through the Persian Gulf and the South China Sea last year. But, they never left the aircraft carrier because...

Rain moves over the cliffs at Colorado National Monument on Aug. 5, 2019, in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Man dead after car plunges over 400 feet over edge of Rimrock Drive at Colorado National Monument

October 20, 2019 at 12:49 p.m.

Multiple law enforcement and rescue agencies are on the scene on the Colorado National Monument for a vehicle that reportedly went over the edge.

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