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
Covid
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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Proposed constitutional amendment asks who should dictate wildlife policy
October 14, 2026
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 ...
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Ex-admin assistant claims Ouray lost personal info, violated policies
October 14, 2026
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...
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October 14, 2026
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...
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October 14, 2026
Ouray County Commissioner Lynn Padgett will take a voluntary 10% salary reduction next year in a show of solidarity with other departments that took cuts for the 2027 budget. Padgett said budget reduc...
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Pay raise bumps Ridgway staff out of affordable housing income bracket
October 14, 2026
The Ridgway School Board plans to sell the school district’s last affordable housing unit and rejected a land donation that could have been used to build more housing at a board meeting Oct. 8. No sta...
