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Classes will start next fall on Aug. 20 and end on May 29 and students in Garfield School District Re-2 will take only Thanksgiving Day and the day after off, instead of the entire week.

As John Steele awaits word on whether he'll succeed in giving Rifle voters a chance to weigh in on a $25.5 million loan recently approved by City Council for a new water treatment plant, city officials are responding to some of the concerns that prompted...

Many a song about a young, struggling musician includes a line about singing or playing in small venues to hone their crafts.

In the case of Joe Allen and Walt Smith, though, they've already done that. Long ago. And to some level of notoriety.

The most active of this spring's special district elections is in the Battlement Mesa Metropolitan District, where six candidates, including one incumbent, are running for two open seats on the five-member board.

Devon Vondette works her rodeo horses just about every morning, but one morning the horses waited as she sat sipping coffee instead. Lounging outside of Starbucks in south Rifle, she rattled off a string of her rodeo-related injuries with a casual air,...

Registration for Colorado Mountain College's summer semester is under way. Many classes in Rifle or via online learning start the week of May 14, and additional classes start throughout the semester.

City of Rifle officials and employees outnumbered citizens Tuesday night at one of many open houses the city is holding about the need for a new water treatment plant.

A weeklong intensive design workshop in Rifle held from April 16-20 yielded some exciting ideas about the future of the downtown core, which architects and engineers captured in drawings like the ones to the right.