The owner of a Ouray guide service and the operators of the Ouray Via Ferrata are butting heads over new regulations that will boost the level of certifications commercial guides must possess if they ...

The city of Ouray has collected more than $16,000 in fines and back taxes from three illegal short-term rental operators, and is working to collect payment from two additional owners, including a San ...

The Ouray County Plaindealer won 13 awards in the four-state Society of Professional Journalists' Top of the Rockies contest last weekend. The Plaindealer, competing in the "small newsroom" category ...

A citizen-driven initiative to ask voters to raise property taxes for the Ouray County Sheriff's Office has been proposed to county commissioners. Log Hill residents Richard Wojciechowski and John Nel...

From the side door of his home on Moffat Street, John Clark hands a laptop to a customer and begins explaining his work. He replaced the battery, he says, and updated some software, and while it won’t...

A state mobile vaccine bus will be in Ouray on April 16, returning to provide COVID-19 vaccines and booster shots to newly eligible groups. Second booster shots are now available for immunocompromised...

For the last five years, San Miguel Power Association leaders have been evaluating the rural electric cooperative’s contract with the company that provides virtually all of its electrical supply and w...

The Ouray City Council informally agreed Monday night to maintain the limit on short-term rental permits at 120, saying it’s premature to consider reducing that number and contending city officials ha...

Construction on a mixed-use development surrounding Ridgway’s old firehouse could begin early this summer, and the first steps to move the historic jail from the property could begin as soon as next w...

Left, Vinny Schierenberg of Ridgway passes to Roman Sackman of Ouray in the 4x400m relay during the Mickey Dunn Invitational in Grand Junction last week. The relay team placed sixth in the race. Righ...

Ouray County commissioners are prepared to recommend changing the name of Squaw Gulch to Hayden Gulch as part of a national effort to rename hundreds of geographical sites. Commissioners discussed the...

He may have come to Ouray as an accidental tourist, but Bill Fries ended his life as a beloved community member and friend. The rest of the world knew him better as "C.W. McCall," his stage name under...

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 a.m. and every Wednesday night at 5:30 p.m. at St. Daniel’s Church, 614 Fifth St., Ouray. Every Thursday and Sunday at 7 p.m. in the sanctu...

GUNNISON After a months-long search that drew dozens of candidates from around the nation, the Board of Trustees of Western Colorado University last Friday selected William Bradley (Brad) Baca, as the...

Ridgway voters have chosen two new members for their town council. Tuesday’s official election results show newcomers J.T. Thomas and Polly Enochs will join the council, and incumbents Terry Schuyler...

Ouray County will give $10,000 of federal funding to the Home Trust of Ouray County for operations as the nonprofit works to grow its capacity, becoming the first local government to put financial bac...

Unofficial election results in the Ridgway town council election show Terry Schuyler, Kevin Grambley, Polly Enochs and J.T. Thomas have been elected to the council. They received the most votes in th...

Work on U.S. 550 runs through April 8 Motorists should give themselves extra time traveling between Ridgway and Ouray through the end of next week as Colorado Department of Transportation crews perfor...

Maybe you grew up with classmates who used the word “gay” to describe something they thought was stupid. Or perhaps the boys at school played “smear the queer,” a chase game of keep away and tackling....

As soon as they emptied the can of fish on the ground, Lisa Knight saw the cats pouring out from under the double wide trailer. "There must have been 50 of them," she said. She grabbed five kittens th...