A new wildfire sparked on Sunday in western Colorado, prompting Garfield County officials to issue an evacuation order for ...

Evacuations were lifted on Sunday night for the Battlement Mesa Fire burning in Garfield County.

GARFIELD COUNTY, Colo. (KREX) — UPDATE: As of 9:30 p.m. Sunday: According to the Grand Valley Fire Protection District, ...

Residents of The Reserve and Battlement Mesa Village are able to return to their homes after evacuations were ordered Sunday ...

Residents of the Battlement Mesa Golf/Battlement Creek Village neighborhoods have been ordered to evacuate. Those on County ...

GARFIELD COUNTY, Colo. (KREX) — At 3:02 p.m., Cottonwood Fire started near the 1800 Block of County Road in Battlement Mesa. The vegetation fire, visible on I-70 between Parachute and Rulison, has ...

Battlement Mesa is actually just as old as its near neighbor Parachute, though it didn’t see much development until the 1970s and ’80s. That’s when Exxon Corporation began building houses and schools ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... PARACHUTE — From his deck, Bob Arrington can hear the rustle of aspens and the chirp of birds. He can see the golf course; Battlement Mesa, still spring ...