Park County
Colorado mental health therapists are quitting Medicaid over latest payment debacle
Several behavioral health providers say they will no longer treat Medicaid patients after 199 providers received letters ordering them to return payment for therapy already completed.
He bought land in Park County before he could afford to build a home. So, he dug a hole there instead and lives in it.
Plots of land in Park County can be found for less than $10,000, but the cost of building or buying a home there is very high
FBI investigates Asian American teen’s death in Park County as a hate crime
Maggie Long death was ruled a homicide and authorities later released composite sketches of at least three men they were believed involved in her death. No arrests have been made.
Park County’s only primary care doctor retired 8 years ago. A replacement still hasn’t been found.
It’s a stark example of the persistent difficulty in recruiting young talent for the daunting workloads facing Colorado’s most isolated medical outposts.
70-year-old Colorado man arrested in 1982 murders of two women
Alan Lee Phillips, of the mountain hamlet of Dumont, was being held in Park County Jail on suspicion of killing Annette Schnee, 21, and Barbara “Bobbi Jo” Oberholtzer, 29.
Colorado authorities use DNA to identify body found in 1974
Park County Coroner David E. Kintz Jr. on Tuesday identified the man as 45-year-old Anthony John Armbrust III of San Diego
Colorado’s housing crisis has gotten so bad that small towns are now building people homes
Rural school districts are leading the charge with projects designed to keep teachers in their communities. Resort towns, meanwhile, are struggling to increase their housing stock without ruining their character.
“I can’t afford to live here”: Colorado teachers plea for wage help, but solutions still prove divisive
Democrats are proposing a state fund for pay increases while Republican lawmakers want to give bonuses to high-performing teachers. But, either way, the path for state funds to reach teacher paychecks remains tricky.
Old mining shacks are becoming backcountry ski huts in Colorado’s high country
The North London Mill preservation project in Park County aims to use a long-abandoned gold mill site for outdoor education as part of rural Colorado's shift from extraction to recreation
Pilot of plane that crashed in Colorado mountains, went undiscovered for months blamed for fatal wreck
Quentin Aschoff, a 67-year-old from Bend, Oregon, died in the wreck of his single-engine Cessna 210 on April 4, 2018, near Alma
Teachers in Park County end strike without pay raises or a contract
This marks the end of the longest teacher strike in Colorado in decades and the first in recent years to end without any meaningful concessions from the district
Park County teacher strike enters its second week, even as classes resume
District officials announced Sunday that schools would be open to students starting Monday, with the help of substitute teachers and support staff
Teachers’ strike continues for second day in Park County
This is the third teacher strike in Colorado in the last 18 months
Park County teachers plan to strike Monday after negotiations break down
The union received legal clearance to strike from the state Department of Labor and Employment in late September and set an official strike date of Oct. 14
Park County teachers set one-week strike deadline
The decision to announce a strike date raises the stakes for negotiations currently set for Wednesday
On the verge of Colorado’s third teacher strike, one mountain district waits in limbo
A Park County teacher strike is looming even though the school board in May approved raises for this school year that average 6.5%