Where should you turn for recommendations about things to do in Parachute? Our answer: Community Development Director Derek Winfield. There’s been a lot happening in the area lately, including the ...

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Colorado officials have ordered evacuations due to the Cottonwood Flat Fire burning in Garfield County. The Garfield County Emergency Community Relations Authority issued an alert around 3:22 p.m.

Parachute town staff want to fund a new transportation service next year, providing on-demand rides in the Colorado River corridor in Parachute, Battlement Mesa and Rifle. Riders would be able to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It was 2015, and the situation in Parachute was hitting bottom. Natural gas prices had collapsed, and the town halfway between Grand Junction and Glenwood ...

In just a few months, Parachute will be home to Colorado’s first drive-through marijuana shop. Tumbleweed, owned by Green Cross Colorado LLC, has won approval for drive-up sales out of a former ...

PARACHUTE, Colorado State oil and gas regulators are looking at two additional releases of waste that have reportedly affected groundwater northwest of Parachute. Those two spills occurred about two ...

It’s midnight outside of the Grand River Hotel in south Parachute. It would be quiet if not for chirping crickets in a field next to the Colorado River and a freight train roaring along the tracks ...

To this day, Parachute Mayor Roy McClung's views haven't changed when it comes to the sale of retail marijuana. "Personally, I'm not really in favor of it. It kind of goes against what my personal ...

Weather in August 2015 for Parachute, Colorado. Daily indexes of the temperatures and rainfall for Parachute. Parachute's current weather conditions. Also, get the recent Colorado weather news here.