A nearly 15-year project to entirely encircle Ouray with a hiking trail is now complete after a local volunteer organization finished the last section...
October 22, 2020
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After many cancellations and disruptions due to the COVID-19 virus this year, children and adults can take heart that Halloween events are happening i...
October 22, 2020
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The four candidates seeking two seats on the Ouray County Board of County Commissioners tackled topics ranging from housing to land-use code issues du...
October 15, 2020
News
Local taxing districts have endorsed Amendment B on the statewide ballot, hoping it will improve their funding situations if the Gallagher Amendment i...
October 15, 2020
News
Ouray County voters will decide next month whether to continue financially supporting a building that houses the county’s only primary care physician....
October 15, 2020
News
Ouray County commissioners approved a letter to the Colorado Department of Transportation supporting the Little Blue Creek Canyon project on U.S. High...
October 7, 2020
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Principals at both Ridgway Elementary and Secondary Schools reported a smooth adjustment to the new normal of daily temperature checks, social distanc...
September 30, 2020
News
The long-awaited ceremony for the Ouray County Courthouse renovation is scheduled for next week, and though the ribbon cutting will look a little diff...
September 30, 2020
News
A Ridgway landscaper who filed a small-claims complaint against the Ouray School District last year is now asking the district to pay her for work on ...
September 30, 2020
A 25-year-old business in Ridgway has new owners. Gale Ingram turned over her business, Ridgway Office Supply & Services, to Ridgway residents Er...
September 28, 2020
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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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City halts production after public backlash over size, appearance of wayfinding signs
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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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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Leaders pull from multiple sources to cover $300,000 tab, look to replenish emergency fund
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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Council OKs bathhouse design contract; pipeline replacement, heat exchange system on tap this fall
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...
