No experience. No money. No consensus. That's how House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas summed up what lies ahead as another round of Farm Bill negotiations begin in earnest with congressional committees formalizing draft proposals in advance of what will likely be contentious floor battles...

LiveWell Bent County and friends held a highway cleanup throughout the town of Las Animas last week. There were six adults and several children participating. The adults cleaned up the adopted highway through town and the kids scattered at the Sonny Smith Ballpark and cleaned up the grounds.

Last minute preparations are nearly complete for the Otero Junior College Foundation's inaugural Off the Wall Art Show and Auction, which will be held in conjunction with the Otero Museum's wine tasting event at 218 Anderson St. in La Junta on May 18 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

This weekend the Run for the Wall, which is a cross-country motorcycle run starting in California and picking up riders all across the U.S. as they go along, will be stopping in La Junta around noon on May 18.

Over 500 people had attended National Train Day in La Junta

The Bent on Birding & Heritage Festival, the 16th Annual Rollin’ Along the Santa Fe Trail Auto Tours, wrapped up Sunday after four days of tours and events. Tours were led by guides Duane Nelson (Biologist) and John Koshak (Colorado Wildlife) each day and some evenings. Birding sites visited...

Even by the capricious standards of wheat yield forecasting, the recent Wheat Quality Council tour through Kansas and into neighboring states was marked by extreme variability and uncertainty.