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 voters will be asked in November to approve a 15% tax on short-term rentals, a measure intended to generate revenue to help offset impacts created by the burgeoning industry. A short-handed Oura...

When Jack Rairden first bought land in Ouray County, cars were few and far between on that part of County Road 1. The quiet, wide open spaces were exactly what he and his wife, Barbara, were looking f...

Above, from left to right, Ouray runners Paton Edwards, Hayden Hart and Kaden Nelson run in the high school boys varsity 5k race at Matchett Park in Grand Junction on Aug. 21. Hart finished 14th, Edw...

San Miguel Power Association finally has everything it needs — a permit, local government approval and a helicopter — to proceed with a long-planned project that will temporarily close U.S. Highway 55...

Ridgway water customers received a letter recently, indicating water users on the town’s system haven’t met a requirement to have 80% of the total back flow prevention devices tested. Roughly 30 to 40...

GUNNISON In a report that almost seems to defy logic, Gunnison County Chief Financial Officer Juan Guerra informed county commissioners on Tuesday that sales tax receipts in June this year rose 41% co...

Six compete for two council seats There will be plenty of competition for three seats on the Ouray City Council this fall. As reported previously, Mayor Greg Nelson will seek re-election facing off ag...

Drew Berger walked around the house, glancing into windows before miming shutting off electricity and gas, calling into his radio after each step. A few moments later, he started jogging back towards ...

After five years working as a principal in Europe, Heidi Hanssen is happy to have landed at her new job – at the helm of Ridgway Elementary School. It's not the first time she's lived in the Colorado ...

The Ridgway School Board will formally vote to put two measures on the November ballot at its meeting today (Thursday). The measures ask voters to approve two separate funding mechanisms – a bond meas...

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...

Two executives with a vacation home management company that oversees dozens of properties in Ouray urged the City Council Monday not to ask voters to approve a 15% tax on short-term rentals, arguing i...

Ridgway Town Council voted unanimously to approve new proposed landscape regulations Aug. 11, clearing the way for a public hearing and possible adoption next month. The goal of the new ordinance is t...

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...

Ridgway Town Council and Planning Commission members voiced support for a 12-unit affordable housing development proposed by the Telluride Foundation, the organization’s second attempt this year at a ...

A Ouray police officer has been officially cleared of possible charges in the case involving Luther Medina, who died when he fled from an attempted DUI stop in May. District Attorney Seth Ryan said in...

Ouray County’s longtime county clerk has been appointed to help another Western Slope county with its upcoming elections, amid an investigation into Mesa County's clerk and decertification of its elec...

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...