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...

More than five years after the town of Ridgway was selected by the state for an affordable housing project, current and past town leaders and state officials gathered for a toast to celebrate long-awa...

A Durango-based company called Farm to Table Composting presented a proposal to the town board of trustees for bringing their services to Silverton. They would come up once a week and collect compost ...

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 and every Tuesday and Wednesday night at 7 at St. Daniel’s Church, 614 Fifth St., Ouray. Every Thursday and Sunday at 7 p.m. in the sanctua...

After weeks of meetings, public hearings and staff review, the Gunnison County commissioners voted unanimously on Tuesday to amend the land use resolution, changing the review and approval process for...

The Ridgway Planning Commission voted Tuesday to approve a sketch plan for the Telluride Foundation’s proposal to build “Yellow Brick Lane,” a development of 14 deed-restricted homes. The decision cle...

The Ouray City Council appears ready to process applications for short-term rental licenses from four property owners whose homes are still under construction, providing an exemption to a new set of p...

Investigators are continuing to look into a gruesome accident on U.S. Highway 550 that involved two separate vehicles and killed four horses last week. The first accident happened around 5 a.m., when ...

The county's Planning Commission will focus on updating the master plan, originally written in the 1980s and not updated since 1999. Commissioners and members of the Planning Commission held a joint m...

The San Juans are alive with fall colors, including this stretch along the Million Dollar Highway south of Ouray. This photo was taken on Sept. 27 by local photographer Mike Boruta. The area along Red...

Low stream flow in the Lake Fork River below Lake San Cristobal has prompted partial release of an in-stream water right from the lake, which is controlled by the Colorado Water Conservation Board. At...

Four horses were killed in two separate accidents on Highway 550 this morning, near Cutler Creek just west of mile marker 99. The crash happened around 5 a.m. near the turnoff for the KOA, near the Ce...

Older Coloradans can permanently renew their driver's licenses or identification cards online, now that a new state law has gone into effect. The new law also adjusts the process for renewing licenses...

The Town of Ridgway's housing project has received the first Community Revitalization Grant award this year from Colorado Creative Industries, securing its final round of funding for the project. The ...

San Miguel Power Association has two upcoming power outages planned to upgrade its system and make improvements. The first of those outages will affect Ridgway customers, in an area centered in the do...

Ouray County coffers have grown in the last couple of years due to increased property and sales tax revenue, and that’s triggering requests for more staffing and services from county elected officials...

Ouray County commissioners denied another Log Hill marijuana grow facility application on Tuesday, this one an appeal of staff’s denial. Land Use staff denied the application based on a moratorium on ...

Thirty percent of Ouray County’s housing stock is considered vacant, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, with more than 1,000 housing units reported as unoccupied, despite a housing sho...

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...

Editor's note:  This is the second profile in an occasional series highlighting those in Ouray County who are struggling to find housing, living in unusual situations or trying to solve the housing pr...