The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office Threat Assessment Group (TAG), with assistance from the Sheriff’s All-Hazards Response Team, on Tuesday executed a search warrant in Battlement Mesa and ...

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Every time Garfield County emergency dispatcher Michelle Raymond picks up the phone she knows it can be a life-or-death situation. On the morning of Feb. 26 she learned just how much the former can be ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rifle Citizen Telegram A state oil and gas regulator expressed alarm over the way topsoil and water have been handled at this pipeline construction site in ...

BATTLEMENT MESA, Colorado – As in the cinematic fables of Rocky Balboa versus Apollo Creed, or the Mighty Ducks against the Hawks, the controversy over gas drilling here is a story of underdogs ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BATTLEMENT MESA — This community built to house energy workers during the 1980s oil-shale boom, which then morphed into a community for retirees seeking the ...

A proposal by Ursa Resources to drill some 53 wells in the unincorporated community of Battlement Mesa is scheduled for consideration by the Garfield County Planning Commission starting Sept. 23.

The sister of a missing Battlement Mesa man is asking the public to participate in a volunteer search party this weekend. Filmer N. Lopez was last seen leaving a Battlement Mesa gas station at 2 p.m.

Community activists are fighting an application for construction of wastewater injection wells within the Battlement Mesa residential boundaries. Western Colorado Congress, Battlement Concerned ...

BATTLEMENT MESA, Colo. (KJCT) — The Funky Bear Bistro, a restaurant in the Battlement Mesa community, permanently closed its doors March 15 after several years in business. Owner and head chef George ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Following the Cottonwood Flat Fire, a vegetation fire that sparked in Garfield County, water restrictions are in place for residents in the area. The Battlement Mesa Service ...