It’s been planted in Antarctica, held up in the Himalayas and waved by conservationist Jane Goodall at a rally in New York City. But Ridgway could be the world's first place to formally adopt and fly ...

For the first time since their release in Colorado nearly 18 months ago, gray wolves have crossed into Ouray County. A Colorado Parks and Wildlife map tracing wolf movement between March 25 and April ...

On any other day — except Sunday, of course — they would flood her counter, a constant stream of people entrusting her with greeting cards for loved ones, seeking her help finding missing packages, st...

A series of proposed changes in how the state of Colorado funds K-12 education is expected to hit the Ridgway School District harder than the Ouray School District over the next few years due to formu...

Ouray County taxpayers won’t foot Commissioner Lynn Padgett’s nearly $11,000 legal bill after commissioners Jake Niece and Michelle Nauer voted against her reimbursement request on Tuesday. Padgett an...

SILVERTHORNE — When Adolfo Román García-Ramírez walks home in the evening from his shift at a grocery store in this central Colorado mountain town, sometimes he thinks back on his childhood in Nicarag...

Federal funding slashes and freezes may mean emptier food pantry shelves, fewer library resources and cuts to public health, emergency management and environmental projects in Ouray County. The Trump ...

The landowner who fenced his property and put up “no trespassing” signs to keep children from cutting through his River Park lot to get to school is fighting the town of Ridgway's attempt to condemn t...

For more than a year, Ouray’s search for a police officer proved fruitless, yielding only the same copy-and-paste monthly update to the City Council — the police department was still seeking a full-ti...

AURORA, Colo. — Before this, she had never been away from her daughter for more than a week. Aurora Yadira Mireles Terrazas has spent the past two months struggling to stomach meals or get any real sl...

The Ouray City Council signed off Monday night on the purchase of a two-story building across the street from City Hall, with the intent of converting it into a police station and temporary employee h...

Outrage over wintertime wheeled access on public county roads is resurging as Ouray County residents scorn new requests from private landowners to plow public roads and argue the county’s snow-protect...

Ouray County commissioners are debating whether to offer planning commissioners a stipend after about a month of struggling to recruit replacements for four openings on the commission. Four planning c...

Ouray County Commissioner Lynn Padgett is asking the county to pay nearly $11,000 for the attorney she hired after the county road and bridge superintendent filed a harassment complaint against her la...

Ouray County commissioners spent six hours debating two new policies – specifying how they should treat each other and the public – in meetings last week and this week that devolved into the type of c...

The city of Ouray and its insurer paid former Police Chief Jeff Wood $120,000 to settle the wrongful termination and defamation lawsuit he filed against the city last year. City officials agreed to th...

A Ridgway man has pleaded guilty to reduced charges in a sex assault case in exchange for a sentence of one to six years in prison. Brian Scranton, 49, waived his right to a jury trial and will be con...