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Ouray focuses on housing crisis
A temporary campground for seasonal employees, building city-owned workforce rentals and temporarily pausing or capping short-term rental licenses cou...
June 10, 2021
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County shifts virus command structure
After more than a year of ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic, Ouray County commissioners approved a change to the Unified Command structure ...
June 2, 2021
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Housing financial hurdle cleared
After a lengthy delay spent trying to fill a more than $1 million funding gap, Ridgway’s Space to Create project has reached a key financial deadline,...
June 2, 2021
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Minors cited for underage drinking
Ouray County law enforcement agencies cited 15 teenagers for underage drinking on Log Hill Mesa and in Ouray last weekend. Ten citations were issued t...
June 2, 2021
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GRATEFUL GATHERINGS
[tecnavia_gallery slug='grateful-gatherings-gallery' view='carousel']There were no pods or bubbles, no smiling faces crammed into Zoom tiles on screen...
June 2, 2021
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County drops mask order
Ouray County commissioners voted Tuesday to rescind the local mask mandate this week, aligning the county’s rules with statewide public health orders ...
May 26, 2021
MINING FOR HOUSING
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MINING FOR HOUSING
The job at Ouray Silver Mines seemed like a perfect fit for Brenda LeBrun: a chance to experience a new, beautiful place and to learn new skills worki...
May 26, 2021
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Mask rule holds — for now
Ouray County commissioners delayed a decision on whether to rescind their local mask mandate until next week, despite the public health director’s rec...
May 19, 2021
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Vaccine clinics for kids eyed
Children as young as 12 can begin receiving Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in Colorado starting this week, and Ouray County school districts are hoping to ...
May 12, 2021
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Water restrictions exception, not rule
Colorado is on track for its warmest year ever. Source flows are diminishing or at historic lows. So why has only one water provider in Ouray County ordered cutbacks this summer?
By By Chart Riggall chart@ouraynews.com 
September 9, 2026
In the early days of summer, it remained a matter of some debate where the drought of 2026 ranked in the annals of long, hot Colorado summers. For Cary Denison, Ouray County’s representative on the Co...
Crews working to plug old water well
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Crews working to plug old water well
Operation part of state program to reclaim abandoned sites
By By Chart Riggall chart@ouraynews.com 
September 9, 2026
It’s not what you think. A towering steel drill that’s been perched along the side of U.S. Highway 550 in recent weeks isn’t probing for gas, or oil, or even a route to the Far East. The operation is ...
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