In the waning weeks of the 2019 ice climbing season, a 27-year-old Tres Barbatelli stood at the bottom of the Uncompahgre Gorge wondering what he’d just done. Minutes before, he’d rappelled down into ...

The city of Ouray terminated the sole employee of its police department and turned over its police services to the Ouray County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday, officially dissolving a stand-alone law enf...

A paramedic for Ouray County Emergency Medical Services, who has been on administrative leave since the Gold Mountain Fire, was fired last week after a meeting with county administration went awry. Jo...

Colorado’s vote next month on whether to amend the state Constitution by codifying the right to hunt and fish has intensified debate among hunters, conservationists and legal experts over exactly who ...

The city of Ouray faces another lawsuit from an ex-employee of the police department. In a complaint filed last week in district court, former Ouray Police Department administrative assistant Lucy Ree...

Ouray County commissioners approved a revised contract Tuesday that would make the Ouray County Sheriff’s Office the full-time provider of police services in the city of Ouray — but at a higher cost t...