Respect the tarantula trek. That was the main message at La Junta’s first Tarantula Festival this weekend. Festival goers got to watch a parade, take tarantula tours, buy tarantula-related goods and ...

La Junta, Colorado is about the 30th stop en route to Los Angeles from Chicago on Amtrak’s Southwest Chief. As the Southwest Chief’s rails are aging and expensive repairs are needed, La Junta is at ...

LA JUNTA, Colo. — Kids in La Junta have a new place to play outdoors. The city held a dedication ceremony Thursday for the new Brick and Tile Park. It's located on the site of a former brick and tile ...

Thirteen-year-old Tucker Pope was at Camp La Junta when he woke to storms and water surrounding his cabin in the early hours of July 4. “I heard Cabin 15 right next to us – their counselors were ...

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the La Junta Police Department are investigating an apparent murder-suicide inside a home on Smithland Avenue. The CBI said La Junta Police officers ...

I spent that week in 1975 visiting the camps that cluster along the beautiful but capricious Guadalupe River. I had dinner one evening with a Texas Monthly writer and her husband in their Kerrville ...

A fire in the 600 block of Colorado Avenue in La Junta has been ruled as suspicious while law enforcement conducts interviews, according to a news release from the city's fire department Friday. The ...

LA JUNTA, Colo. (KRDO) - Agents with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and officers with the La Junta Police Department say they've arrested 5 individuals connected to drug trafficking. CBI says ...

"They’re leaders” said one mom whose son attended Camp La Junta About 400 campers and counselors from Camp La Junta in Hunt, Texas, were safely evacuated during the flooding disaster Parents of boys ...

LA JUNTA, Colo. (KRDO) -- A La Junta City Councilman already accused of watching girls get undressed now faces accusations of trying to blackmail the mayor. On Feb. 21, 2023, Synchronicity Dance ...