LIV Sotheby’s International Realty has announced it’s listing property owned in Mesa County by John Hendricks, founder and former chairman of Discovery Communications. The listing includes the nearly 7,000-acre West Creek Ranch near Gateway as well as the Sky Adventures office building and hangar at the Grand Junction Regional Airport. The properties are priced at […]
Members of a delegation of business and government leaders from Western Colorado who traveled to Washington, D.C., to push for approval of a liquefied natural gas export terminal said they were heartened by the response. “From the State Department to the (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) to the White House, we heard resounding support for changing […]
Mesa County will receive almost $3.5 million in the latest payment in lieu of taxes on more than 1.5 million acres of public land. The payment is the single largest to a Colorado county out of a total of nearly $37 million in so-called PILT payments for the 2017 fiscal year in the state. Nationwide, […]
What was a West Slope organization formed to educate people about oil and natural gas development has changed its name and reach. What was the Piceance Energy Action Council is now the Colorado Rural Energy Action Committee. “We understand that oil and gas development is statewide, and we need to expand our mission to educate […]
A monthly measure of consumer confidence has increased on more upbeat assessments of current business and labor conditions. The Conference Board reported that its Consumer Confidence Index rose 1.3 points to 118.9 in June. A measure of the index tracking consumer assessments of current business and labor conditions jumped nearly six points to 146.3, the […]
Ski resorts that belong to a Colorado trade association reported a near record-breaking season. The 22 members of Colorado Ski Country USA reported a total of 7.3 million skier visits during the 2016-2017 season. That’s second only to the 7.4 million skier visits during the 2015-2016 season. The latest total also comes in 6 percent […]
A health care organization that’s provided services in Mesa County for nearly 30 years has a new name. The Marillac Clinic has changed its name to MarillacHealth to better reflect a coordinated approach that offers not only medical, but also dental, behavioral and optical services to patients regardless of their ability to pay. The Marillac […]
St. Mary’s Medical Center has earned recognition for efforts to promote the health of not only hospital patients, but also their families, visitors and staff. The Grand Junction hospital has achieved gold-level recognition as a partner of the Colorado Healthy Hospital Compact. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment developed the program as part […]
A range of clinical trails will be offered to cancer patients in Western Colorado through a new collaborative effort. “All cancer treatments in place today began as a clinical trial. Bringing these clinical trials to our region means identifying better ways to treat cancer, to detect cancers earlier when they are easiest to treat and […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times While the monthly unemployment rate in Mesa County has edged up, the latest numbers continue to offer a more encouraging statistical snapshot of the local labor market. “It’s good to see,” said Curtis Englehart, director of the Mesa County Workforce Center in Grand Junction. The number of job orders posted […]