The Ouray County Food Pantry will move to its new permanent location next month, and will own the building it occupies for the first time in the 13-year history of the nonprofit organization. The non...

Ouray County commissioners voted to impose a six-month moratorium on new applications for retail marijuana operations and grow facilities on Wednesday, with the goal of revising the county’s current o...

The Ridgway Planning Commission voted 5 to 1 on Tuesday night to approve a temporary use permit allowing Stryker and Company, Inc. to stage and store construction equipment on a vacant lot diagonally ...

Ridgway Town Councilor Russ Meyer opens up the back of the 1971 Volkswagen Beetle dubbed the “lightning bug” after its conversion to an all-electric, battery-powered vehicle. Ridgway and Ouray second...

After hours of discussion during their March and April meetings, the Ouray School Board approved updates to school policy concerning student code of conduct, discipline, suspensions and expulsions on ...

Ridgway Secondary School students volunteered on April 23 at the Ridgway Community Garden, readying garden beds for planting. Left: Maizy Gordon and Anna Mahlin pour a wheelbarrow full of soil into a...

GUNNISON Western Colorado University's Board of Trustees held a 90-minute executive session to talk about legal and personnel matters on April 16. However, the board took no action on President Greg S...

Ouray County residents looking for a more youthful appearance now have a place to get a little lift under the direction of a physician they already know. Dr. Joel Gates has opened a new aesthetics ser...

A Realtor office that has primarily worked in Montrose and Delta counties is expanding its reach into the San Juans with the opening of a new office in the Beaumont Hotel building at 505 Main St. in O...

County commissioners will discuss a possible moratorium on new applications for marijuana operations  until  they can revise the county ordinance governing retail marijuana. Chairman Ben Tisdel brough...

More than 100 new housing units are in the pipeline in Ridgway, as long-discussed projects start to take shape that could rapidly increase the town’s housing stock by about 15 percent in the near futu...

Ty Barger began to get a sense of the unique challenges he faces as the new road and bridge superintendent for Ouray County days before he even clocked in for the first time. He was one of the first p...

A required notice to Ouray water customers about possible sources of contamination triggered panic and more questions from some residents on Wednesday. But there’s nothing to panic about. There is no ...

Dems ask for Boebert investigation The Ouray County Democratic Party chairman has joined the ranks of those asking for an investigation into Rep. Lauren Boebert’s involvement in the riots at the U.S. ...

Editor's note: We have new information at the bottom of this story about additional vaccine availability. A closed road and a detour couldn’t stop Beth Edwards of Ouray from getting her first COVID-19...

When the pandemic reached Ouray County back in March, two Ridgway couples couldn’t stop thinking about how hard the impacts would hit their neighbors. Would they have enough to eat? Would they have en...

The town of Ridgway’s plan to change how it treats its domestic water supply has hit a potential snag, with new cost estimates coming in significantly higher than the town was originally told. Town of...

When Sheriff Justin Perry first took office in July he found citizens rated the sheriff’s office with a low amount of credibility and integrity and once he got to work he clearly saw why: a policy man...

After years of discussions and debates on costs and alternatives, the city of Ouray finally appears to be on a clear path toward building a new wastewater treatment plant. City leaders checked a box o...

Ridgway High School boys’ basketball games will look very different this winter, with players running up and down the court in masks and parents being forced to mostly watch games from home. Ridgway A...