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, ...

A visit from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to Mesa County in late June hasn't yet yielded answers about why so many people in nursing homes recently got COVID-19, but it may have cont...

While Colorado met President Joe Biden’s goal of administering at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot to 70 percent of adults by July 4, most counties haven’t yet, including Ouray County. Local infections...

Colorado will no longer require masks in schools, under a new Public Health Order from the Department of Public Health Environment announced Thursday.  Previously, schools were one of the few location...

Ouray County is encouraging concert-goers to get vaccinated this week, by offering a free drink to anyone who opts for a shot at the Mountain Air Music Series concert on Thursday evening. Ouray County...

By Stina Sieg, CPR News In Mesa County, health care workers are exhausted. And the COVID-19 cases keep coming.  “We just got to keep going,” said Dr. Thomas Tobin. “Cause there is no other option.”  T...

The catering company providing meals to hundreds of Ride the Rockies participants returned to the Front Range earlier this week after a staff member was potentially exposed to COVID-19, the director o...

Ouray School is making plans for a nearly normal return to school in the fall, with most COVID-related restrictions lifted under a proposed plan released last week. Superintendent Tod Lokey is seeking...

After more than a year of ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic, Ouray County commissioners approved a change to the Unified Command structure Tuesday, with Public Health Director Tanner Kinger...

There were no pods or bubbles, no smiling faces crammed into Zoom tiles on screens and only a few masks in the crowd as the Ridgway and Ouray classes of 2021 shed restrictions that have defined their...

Ouray County commissioners voted Tuesday to rescind the local mask mandate this week, aligning the county’s rules with statewide public health orders and federal health guidance. Public Health Directo...

Ouray County Commissioners voted Tuesday to rescind the local mask mandate this week, aligning the county’s rules with statewide public health orders and federal health guidance. Public Health Directo...

Ouray County commissioners will move their public hearing to the 4-H Center next week and allow the public to attend in person or online, a decision made in the last few minutes of their meeting on Tu...

Ouray County commissioners delayed a decision on whether to rescind their local mask mandate until next week, despite the public health director’s recommendation to drop it and align with the state’s ...

The Ouray County commissioners met in person this week, in a meeting where the public was restricted to online attendance. We sent reporter Liz Teitz to cover the meeting, which included an item on th...

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 set up mobile vaccination clinics for their eligib...

Graduation events in Ouray County will largely return to normal this month after a roller coaster ride full of shutdowns and quarantines. While the Ridgway class of 2021 missed out on prom and a tradi...

With the busiest tourist season just around the corner, businesses are struggling to find enough employees to staff up, and they’re pointing to a lack of available housing as one of the hurdles. “We’...

Goldie was quiet in the back row of the Ford Expedition, making almost no noise on the drive to Montrose Memorial Hospital, aside from occasional chewing. In the parking lot, he stepped out of the ca...

Ouray County commissioners decided Tuesday to extend the county’s local mask requirement for the next month, citing a need to keep the rules in place while schools remain in session. The county's orde...