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Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com

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Ridgway man killed in avalanche
A Ridgway man was killed Tuesday after being caught in an avalanche while backcountry skiing near Red Mountain Pass.Ouray County Coroner Glenn Boyd id...
January 8, 2025
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Donors emerge in effort to save homes
The people who climbed the stairs at the Ouray Community Center and filled the seats inside the City Council hearing room carried the heavy weight of ...
January 8, 2025
Top story of 2024: Department beset by complaints, audit, firing
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Top story of 2024: Department beset by complaints, audit, firing
The revelation that a 17-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted inside the home of Ouray’s police chief ignited a turbulent 2024 for the polic...
January 1, 2025
Top story of 2024: Council scrambles after administrator resigns
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Top story of 2024: Council scrambles after administrator resigns
When the Ouray City Council hired Silas Clarke as the city administrator in 2020, it did so hoping to end a merry-go-round of chief executive officers...
January 1, 2025
Ridgway carried Padgett to victory
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Ridgway carried Padgett to victory
Just like four years ago, Democrat Lynn Padgett has Ridgway-area voters primarily to thank for lifting her to victory and securing a second four-year ...
December 18, 2024
Ridgway athletic complex near full funding threshold
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Ridgway athletic complex near full funding threshold
If advocates for a new athletic complex behind Ridgway Secondary School were running a 5-kilometer race to raise the funding needed for the project, t...
December 18, 2024
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City boosts housing help for administrator
To bring aboard a new city administrator in 2020, Ouray city officials knew they would have to include some perks that, at the time, were unique to th...
December 18, 2024
Minturn manager accepts Ouray job
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Minturn manager accepts Ouray job
Minturn Town Administrator Michelle Metteer will become Ouray’s next city administrator, transitioning from one small mountain community that boasts a...
December 11, 2024
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‘I’m here to say, please help us’
Faced with the prospect of unaffordable spikes in rent or being forced to move out of Ouray altogether, Swiss Village Mobile Home Park residents plead...
December 4, 2024
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Council offers top Ouray job to Minturn administrator
The Ouray City Council unanimously agreed Wednesday to offer the city administrator job to Minturn Town Administrator Michelle Metteer, calling her th...
November 27, 2024
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Smoke blankets Ouray County as wildfires burn in region
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Smoke blankets Ouray County as wildfires burn in region
By Mike Wiggins 
July 11, 2025
Heavy smoke and haze choked Ouray County for a second straight day Friday as a series of wildfires churned through tinder-dry trees and brush in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah. The Colora...
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Signs of trouble in Ouray
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Signs of trouble in Ouray
City halts production after public backlash over size, appearance of wayfinding signs
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
July 9, 2025
Ouray business owners and residents threw up a symbolic stop sign in front of the city council on Monday, urging city leaders to pause or altogether abandon plans to install dozens of new wayfinding s...
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Go Fourth and celebrate
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Go Fourth and celebrate
July 9, 2025
The crowd cheers as a fire department tanker truck sprays the wet side of the street during the July 4 parade in Ouray. Ouray Tourism and Destination Marketing Director Kailey Rhoten said cellular dat...
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County scrambles to pay for road repairs from rockfall
Leaders pull from multiple sources to cover $300,000 tab, look to replenish emergency fund
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
July 9, 2025
Ouray County is scraping together money to pay for emergency repairs on County Road 361 while looking for ways to replenish its emergency fund in anticipation of other disasters. During a work session...
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Hot Springs moves forward with upgrades
Council OKs bathhouse design contract; pipeline replacement, heat exchange system on tap this fall
By By Lia Salvatierra and Mike Wiggins lia@ouraynews.com mike@ouraynews.com 
July 9, 2025
A series of much-anticipated upgrades to the Ouray Hot Springs Pool is coming together, with the city beginning infrastructure replacements this fall and searching for ways to pay for building a new b...
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