BLM Completes Fuel Reduction Projects in Chaffee County
The Bureau of Land Management’s Rocky Mountain District Fire staff recently completed two large fuels reduction projects in Chaffee County.
The Bureau of Land Management’s Rocky Mountain District Fire staff recently completed two large fuels reduction projects in Chaffee County.
The Chaffee County Community Foundation, in a potential partnership with the Chaffee Housing Authority, announces a proposal to develop a half- acre site at the corner of Highway 291 and 3rd Street in Salida to serve local flexible housing and nonprofit needs.
A Canon City father was sentenced to six years in prison yesterday after running over his 2-year-old son in the driveway of their home last January.
Chaffee County Public Health is reporting 29 new Covid-19 cases in the last 7 days, 65 in the last 14 days, for a 2-week positivity rate of 4.47 percent.
Due to COVID-19 cases decreasing in Chaffee County, along with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment moving Chaffee County to the Yellow Level on the State’s COVID-19 Dial, the City of Salida will be reducing its stance to Tier II of its COVID-19 Action Plan.
Colorado lawmakers are considering a new bill that would allow the offering of takeout an delivering alcoholic beverages.
The Colorado Department of Public Health is expecting to move into the next phase of Covid-19 vaccinations on or around March 5.
The Colorado State Forest Service begins forest fuels reduction work this week on a community fuel break in the foothills of Methodist Mountain, as contractor Rue Logging, Inc. begins to thin trees to reduce wildfire hazard on the Hutchinson Homestead & Learning Center.
If you received a first dose COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, Feb. 5 at the Chaffee County fairgrounds, you are due back for your second dose this Friday, Feb. 26.
The Lake County Coroner and his wife have been arrested on charges of tampering with a body.
Covid-19 testing continues in Chaffee County.
Recent snowstorms have increased the statewide snowpack to 91 percent of average, but it has also increased the risk of avalanches.