The show will go on for the 2021 Ouray Ice Festival. But rather than crammed shoulder-to-shoulder above the Uncompahgre Gorge, spectators will be spread thousands of miles apart. The COVID-19 pandemic...

After many cancellations and disruptions due to the COVID-19 virus this year, children and adults can take heart that Halloween events are happening in Ouray County. Both Ouray and Ridgway elementary ...

An 89-year-old woman who lived in Ouray County and tested positive for COVID-19 on Oct. 17 has reportedly died. This is the third COVID-19 related death reported in Ouray County, counting a death of a...

Eighteen Ridgway Elementary School students are currently in quarantine after two school staff members tested positive last week for COVID-19, marking the first time the pandemic has forced students i...

Ouray County will spend $5,000 to purchase a machine to process COVID-19 tests, in the hopes of providing quicker results and a faster response to outbreaks. The decision comes as winter approaches, p...

The day before I flew to Colorado in May, I spent a long evening at my grandma’s house, wearing a mask and talking from across the room, trying to figure out how to keep my distance and still take adv...

For years, Dana and Andy Rodes talked about retiring in Colorado. A Colorado Springs native, she planned to eventually leave Texas and return to the mountains where she grew up. Then the coronavirus ...

A group of about 30 people gathered Saturday at Ridgway’s Hartwell Park for a “Freedom Rally,” many waving American flags and signs supporting President Donald Trump. Attendees said they wanted to enc...

Last year’s 25th edition of the Ouray Ice Festival had all the usual fanfare — the climbing competitions and clinics, the presentations and auctions, and of course the anything-goes Saturday night Pet...

A few months before the coronavirus pandemic halted international travel, Anthony Disser was flying frequently to China and Saudi Arabia, consulting for hospitals on certification and accreditation. B...

A parent and former elementary school teacher told Ridgway School Board members last week she is concerned about the stress teachers are feeling in enforcing social-distancing and mask-wearing protoco...

As she read through the state's guidelines for reopening schools during the pandemic, Ridgway Elementary School music teacher Diane Brand tried to imagine what her classes would look like when school ...

Ouray County’s mass COVID-19 testing event yielded three confirmed positive cases out of 618 tests. The two-day testing event last week was held in response to an outbreak traced to a private social e...

Faced with the choice between online classes and returning to campus this fall, John Countryman and his family decided to choose both. His three oldest children will take classes at home through Color...

Superintendent Tod Lokey brought a short yellow school bus to a stop on Whispering Pines Drive just after 8 a.m., then checked his watch. “Right on time,” he said. He waved to two students waiting ac...

Ouray County's first mass testing event for COVID-19 attracted so many participants that twice as many tests were performed in two days as had been conducted si nce the pandemic started. The first wav...

Superintendent Susan Lacy and board members praised the accomplishments of staff in the days leading up to the reopening of Ridgway Schools at a board meeting Aug. 27. “I cannot say enough about all o...

Though the fair will look different this year due to COVlD-19 and its limitations, the show will go on. The livestock show, that is, and the sale afterward, in which the community can come help suppor...

Ouray County officials have abandoned a plan to launch an ambassador program to improve compliance with a statewide mask mandate, citing increasing aggression they feared would threaten volunteers’ sa...

Jeff "Bama" Tunnicliff had been working hard – shoveling and pounding posts into the ground. He figured his upper body aches were related to that and didn't think too much of it. The cough, he thought...