A Paonia man faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of a 29-year-old coal miner in 1981.

This school year 32 Delta County teachers will initiate 28 innovative teaching projects funded by the Arch Coal Foundation.

Gunnison County Sheriff Rick Murdie on Wednesday said he's confident human remains recovered from a hillside near Somerset are not those of missing Grand Junction woman Paige Birgfeld.

Investigators have their work cut out for them after human bones were discovered in a remote area near Somerset over the weekend.

SOMERSET, Colrado - Investigators have found more bones and other evidence on a western Colorado hillside where a human skull was found last weekend.

Identification of human remains found over the weekend on a rugged, remote hillside north of Somerset could take weeks to months, Gunnison County officials said Tuesday.

The Gunnison County Sheriff's Office says it has more questions than answers after human remains were found in a remote part of the county.

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Here in Paonia, Colo., the peaches and tomatoes are finally ripening and High Country News is still welcoming lots of summer visitors.

After months of anticipation and weeks of hard work and application preparation, TDS Telecommunications Corp.

Mountain Coal has laid off more workers, this time hourly and salaried employees.

Anyone who has camped out during Ride the Rockies knows - and dreads - that sound.