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Ridgway Fire District budget features wage hikes, new equipment purchases
After multiple meetings, the Ridgway Fire Protection District has adopted its 2024 budget, including staff wage increases, new equipment purchases and...
December 13, 2023
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More than books: Library mulls lending other items
The Ridgway Public Library could soon offer more than books, music and videos after the district’s Board of Trustees on Dec. 8 discussed creating a “l...
December 13, 2023
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Bill angers vacation home owners
Legislation proposes to tax some short-term rentals as commercial propertiesOuray County short-term rental owners could be required to pay thousands m...
December 13, 2023
State prepares to reintroduce wolves
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State prepares to reintroduce wolves
Ouray County could see apex predators in first year, depending on release location More than three years after Coloradans narrowly voted to reintroduc...
December 6, 2023
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Business leaders discuss Ouray’s future
Roundtable: Prepare for changing tourism industryOuray business leaders gathered at an Ouray Economic Development Committee roundtable last week to de...
December 6, 2023
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County OKs pact with mine owners to maintain roads
A split Ouray County Commission on Tuesday agreed to enter a winter road maintenance agreement with Thorin Resources, paving the way for the mining co...
December 6, 2023
Honoring the ‘heart and soul’ of Ridgway basketball
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Honoring the ‘heart and soul’ of Ridgway basketball
Court named after legendary hoops coach Steve Hill As Steve Hill sat surrounded by friends and family on Ridgway Secondary School’s bleachers Saturday...
December 6, 2023
Canine respiratory illness hits county
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Canine respiratory illness hits county
State recommends owners update vaccines, limit commingling Luke’s symptoms began innocuously in early October with a runny nose and cough, two weeks a...
November 29, 2023
Rent increase leads consignment shop to close
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Rent increase leads consignment shop to close
When Lynne Stovicek opened Lucky Find Consignments after working at The Market grocery store in Ridgway, she felt a sense of fear. It was December 201...
November 29, 2023
Public bus ready to roll soon
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Public bus ready to roll soon
Long-awaited shuttle service from Montrose to Ouray to start in Feb. Nearly six months after it was originally supposed to launch, All Points Transit’...
November 22, 2023
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Bright start, cloudy future for bus service
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Bright start, cloudy future for bus service
Two years after launch, OurWay ridership has doubled. It’s unclear if grant money and matching local funds will help it keep running
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
February 25, 2026
Georgia Evans greeted the bus driver with jugs of milk and water in her hands and boarded the 11-seater OurWay shuttle, headed home from work in Ridgway to Montrose. She noticed it was a different bus...
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Backcountry road closure eyed
County to shut off portion of Yankee Boy Basin to vehicles this summer due to environmental damage
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
February 25, 2026
Ouray County commissioners on Tuesday directed staff to pursue closing an upper section of Yankee Boy Basin this summer to motorized traffic, in response to a resident’s request to reduce environmenta...
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Councilor seeks relaxed in-person attendance policy
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Councilor seeks relaxed in-person attendance policy
Doherty claims job keeps him out of town; council to decide whether to change cap on remote participation
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
February 25, 2026
A newly appointed Ouray city councilor who has attended just half of the city council’s meetings in person so far this year has asked the council to relax an attendance policy and allow him to govern ...
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Go-away-finding: Ouray to nix project, remove signs
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Go-away-finding: Ouray to nix project, remove signs
After spending more than $100K on branding, design and fabrication, council halts wayfinding initiative that could have cost up to $800K
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
February 25, 2026
Large maroon wayfinding signs installed on Main Street in Ouray last summer, triggering protests from residents and business owners detesting their appearance and size, will soon be gone like they wer...
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Wet snow, later sunsets mark spring’s approach
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Wet snow, later sunsets mark spring’s approach
By Karen Risch 
February 25, 2026
Thanks to warming sun, wet snow showers, spells of shirtsleeve weather, earlier sunrises and later sunsets, meteorological spring (March 1) is upon us. It’s been an a-ha moment these last two weeks as...
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