Public Health Director Tanner Kingery sees the emails and the invitations: campaign events, gatherings, events urging people to “meet your neighbors post-COVID.” But from inside his office, any kind o...

Montrose Memorial Hospital is reporting a surge of COVID-19 cases and record patient numbers in the Emergency Department, forcing more patient transfers and longer wait times.  Instead of slowing down...

Ouray County Public Health Director Tanner Kingery asked county commissioners Tuesday to schedule a conversation about a mask mandate, prompted by a recent increase in COVID-19 cases. He didn’t recomm...

Ouray School has quarantined the first grade class after a COVID-19 exposure, the first time the school has done so since classes resumed in August.  A member of the first grade cohort tested positive...

Ouray County has reported 17 new COVID cases in the last 10 days, half of whom were children and teenagers. Public Health Director Tanner Kingery said many of the cases are members of the same househo...

By  Rae Ellen Bichell San Juan County, Colorado, can boast that 99.9% of its eligible population has received at least one dose of covid-19 vaccine, putting it in the top 10 counties in the nation,  a...

Ouray School has revised its mask policy, allowing high school students to remove them while in classrooms due to higher vaccination rates. As of Friday, 83.3% of all high school students and 87% of s...

Ouray School has revised its mask policy, allowing high school students to remove them while in classrooms, due to higher vaccination rates.  As of Friday, 83.3% of all high school students and 87% of...

Ouray County had 14 active cases of COVID-19 as of Wednesday morning. The most recent positive cases of the virus involve three probable cases – a woman in her 40s, a man in his 40s, and a woman in he...

Masks will now be required in all Ouray County facilities regardless of whether someone has been vaccinated. On Tuesday, commissioners approved the mask rule in county workplace guidelines after modif...

Though Ouray County continues to confirm more cases of COVID-19, the vaccination rate also has increased recently. The county currently has 70.7% of its eligible resident vaccinated with at least one ...

Ouray County has reported 17 new COVID-19 cases in the first 17 days of August, with more cases so far this month and in July than any month since February. The county also reported a fifth COVID-posi...

Both Ouray and Ridgway School districts will require staff and students to wear masks as they start the new school year, following federal guidance spurred by rising cases of the COVID-19 delta varian...

It started like so many sinus infections do for Melissa Drake — with a cough and a tickle in her throat. It was a Wednesday in early July, and by Friday, Drake was convinced that’s what she was dealin...

As of Wednesday morning, Ouray County reported two new cases of the virus, confirmed with testing at Montrose Memorial Hospital. Both involved women in their 60s, with one who had been fully vaccinate...

A fifth Ouray County resident has died after testing positive for COVID-19, Emergency Manager Glenn Boyd said Wednesday.  The man, who was in his 80s and tested positive in mid-July, died on Aug. 5.  ...

Almost $14 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans were approved for Ouray County businesses since last April, with more than a third going to restaurants, hotels and others hit hard by pandemic ...

As of Tuesday, Ouray County had four new COVID cases, according the the Ouray County Public Health Agency. Those included two fully vaccinated individuals – a woman in her 20s and a man in his 80s – a...

Ouray County commissioners plan to rescind the local emergency disaster declaration next week, more than sixteen months after it was adopted as the coronavirus pandemic began. The declaration gave loc...

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 vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine in February, ...