More than five years after Ridgway was selected for an affordable housing project, ground broke on the Space to Create building this summer. When complete, there will be 30 apartments available to ren...

Photo courtesy Lou Hart How does Santa determine who's been naughty and who's been nice this year? By reading the Plaindealer, of course! The jolly old elf caught up on local happenings outside the Ou...

ART SHOW: Ouray County Community Art Show at the Ridgway Library during normal hours. Nov. 12 through Jan. 12. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 a.m. and every Wednesday nig...

Ouray County commissioners are urging federal officials to rethink a proposed grazing plan for domestic sheep that could affect wild sheep populations. Commissioners approved letters to the Bureau of ...

A mobile home on County Road 22A burned Wednesday morning and is considered a total loss. No one was injured in the fire. The home was fully engulfed in flames when members of the Log Hill Volunteer F...

A second Ridgway development project has received a Colorado Community Revitalization Grant from the state, while a major Ouray development has received a loan from the State Housing Board to purchase...

The city of Ouray will end 2021 hauling in a record amount of sales tax revenue for the second year in a row. The city this month raked in more than $246,000 in receipts from October sales, an 8% incr...

Nine months after hiring the county's first full-time public information officer, commissioners met with her to discuss the roles and responsibilities of the position. Jennifer Peterson was hired in M...

Editor's note: The Ouray County Plaindealer is publishing this story about mental health issues as part of the Colorado News Collaborative, or COLab, the nonprofit that unites more than 160 communiti...

A mobile home on County Road 22A burned this morning and is a total loss. The home was fully engulfed in flames when members of the Log Hill Volunteer Fire Department, the Montrose Fire Department, t...

ART SHOW: Ouray County Community Art Show at the Ridgway Library during normal hours. Nov. 12 through Jan. 12. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 a.m. and every Wednesday nig...

Ouray County is continuing to see an increase in demand for COVID testing and increased infection rates – with a 12.1% positivity rate as of Tuesday. The increased number of cases and need for testing...

A Ridgway man has been arrested in a case stemming from a fatal accident in September in Wyoming. Barrie Bloom, 68, was arrested at his home at 1030 Charles St., on a warrant from Rock Springs, for al...

Ouray County Attorney Leo Caselli and Commissioner Lynn Padgett successfully lobbied the State Board of Land Commissioners to formally recognize designated public rights-of-way on County Road 17 last ...

The following is a summary of cases the Ridgway Marshal's Office handled from Nov. 29-Dec. 12. If you have information on any of the below active cases or of any other incident that you have informati...

The Ouray School Board has selected local business owner and Ouray graduate Tom Fedel to fill an open seat. The board met in a special meeting Dec. 9 to interview three candidates for the opening. Fed...

GUNNISON The Gunnison Watershed School District has released a plan to drop its mask mandate that could make indoor masks voluntary in early 2022, if conditions are met. Developed with Gunnison County...

A trial for a local businessman accused of sexual assault has been postponed again, extending the three-year-old case into 2022. The latest delay came after new details surfaced in the case, which ste...

Both Ouray County school districts will be required by the state to begin increasing their mill levies annually for the next nine years under a mandate to reverse previous mill levy reductions. Ouray ...

Brian Briggs remembers the Ouray Silver Mines’ relationship with local ice climbing guides being as cold as the sheets of frozen water that beckoned to climbers up County Road 361. Mine employees and...