Dear Editor: As fire chief of the Ouray Fire Department, I wanted to take the opportunity to reach out to the mayor, Ouray City Council and administra...
July 21, 2021
Dear Editor: Since 2006, I have participated as an appointed volunteer for 10 years as a planning commissioner, three years on the Beautification Comm...
July 21, 2021
Dear Editor: “I like bacon but I don’t want to live next to a pig farm.” The analog for many of us living in Ouray County is “I have nothing against m...
July 21, 2021
Dear Editor: I would like to see the city of Ouray limit the number of short-term rentals. Most of the Ouray properties bought in the last year were b...
July 21, 2021
Covid
A woman in her 80s who tested positive for COVID-19 a day before she died is the county's fourth fatality connected with the virus. She had been fully...
July 19, 2021
Obituaries
Paul Nicholas McElrea was born on February 4, 1969 in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was the eldest of three sons of Richard and Rosemary McElrea. Trag...
July 15, 2021
News
Reggae band Mike Love & The Full Circle play a set during the July 8 Ridgway Concert Series at Hartwell Park. The series features free music ever...
July 15, 2021
News
GUNNISON Gunnison Valley Health employees may soon do office work where shoppers recently sought bargains. Gunnison County commissioners on Tuesday ap...
July 15, 2021
Ouray Perimeter Trail architect Bob Risch looks at the new Perimeter Trail sign created by Ouray resident Jeff Skoloda and installed at the recently o...
July 15, 2021
The Ouray County Woman’s Club has awarded its annual award to three women – Maureen O’Driscoll, Aimee Vann and Joanie Gibbs. The award was announced a...
July 15, 2021
Main, News...
Town seeks payment of sales, lodging taxes; hotel calls lawsuit 'misguided'
April 1, 2026
The town of Ridgway is suing the owners of MTN Lodge over their plans to use the hotel as workforce housing for the next several years, aiming to suspend operations and demanding they pay lodging and ...
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Niece, Nauer censure Padgett for secretly recording closed-door meeting
April 1, 2026
Two Ouray County commissioners publicly reprimanded their fellow commissioner after discovering she secretly recorded an executive session last week. Portions of the audio from that executive session ...
Main, News...
Latest draft bases members' voting power on financial contributions
April 1, 2026
The current proposal to combine fire and emergency medical services entities in Ouray County could eventually make the new fire chief the highest-paid public official in the county and may base partic...
News
April 1, 2026
A jury has convicted a former Ouray woman of retaliating against another woman who accused her son of sexual assault in 2023. Jurors deliberated for about an hour on March 26 before finding Kristyn Tr...
News
April 1, 2026
Ouray County Emergency Medical Services is moving its sleeping quarters for on-call staff in Ouray into the former Public Health office location, with donations providing rent assistance. An EMT will ...
