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Two weekends ago I spent a fun-filled day pulling weeds and shoveling dirt in 104 degrees Western Colorado heat. Those events reminded me of some Robert Grant photos of Grand Junction area farmers and growers working away in the hot sunshine. Take a trip back in time to the Grand Valley of the 1940s through the 1980s with these photos from late Daily Sentinel photographer Robert Grant. Keep a sharp eye out, you might recognize some of the faces in these shots. Random Images Across 40 Years The gallery below consists of photos selected at random from Bob Grant's collection. Not a single one of...

Twenty people gathered at the campground on Colorado National Monument in the autumn of 1975, a stop on their journey to contact the alien space ships that they believed would carry them “to a better life.” While camping near Fruita, they were “indoctrinated” by The Two, a man and woman who led what was described as a UFO cult. Their ideology combined Christian references with belief in Unidentified Flying Objects. The events in 1975 were among the strangest UFO-related activities to occur on the Western Slope during decades of interest in unidentified celestial objects. B...

Published June 9, 2021 at 9:06 AM MDT Listen • 5:01 / Utah is in the midst of its worst drought since the 1950s. Now, state and local leaders are calling on people to conserve water. Some homeowners and developers have turned to “localscapes” — like the ones at Desert Color — to do so. This story and more in the Wednesday morning news brief. Wednesday morning, June 9, 2021 State Drought Conditions Could Lead To July 4 Fireworks Ban Gov. Spencer Cox issued another executive order Tuesday aimed at water conservation. It requires state facilities in norther...

The newest route, Rockies to the Red Rocks, travels between Denver, Colorado, and Moab, Utah, with an overnight stay in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

KUNC The Cameron Peak Fire burned through the headwaters for northern Colorado's Poudre River and many of its small tributaries. Record-breaking wildfires in 2020 turned huge swaths of Western forests into barren burn scars. Those forests store winter snowpack that millions of people rely on for drinking and irrigation water. But with such large and wide-reaching fires, the science on the short-term and long-term effects to the region’s water supplies isn’t well understood. To understand, and possibly predict what happens after a river’s headwaters goes up in flames, researchers are de...