Stephanie Kissner’s heart sank just a little when the woman waved her down. It was near the end of another busy Sunday at Ridgway’s True Grit Cafe in the midst of a draining summer for Ouray County’s ...

The crutches are closest to the door, leaning against one wall. Some look nearly new; others have pilled and frayed padding, peeling away from years of use. Behind them, canes hang from the rungs of a...

The last time Ethan Funk ran for office, he was in elementary school, and he ran for student council. The challenger in Ouray’s mayoral race isn’t one for the spotlight, or politics, particularly. But...

When Greg Nelson ran for Ouray mayor two years ago, he did so on a platform of change, of devising solutions to long-standing problems, of addressing issues he felt had been left to languish for too l...

Ridgway’s Planning Commission voted on Tuesday to recommend the Town Council approve a preliminary plat application for a new development along the Uncompahgre River that could house more than 130 res...

A visit from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to Mesa County in late June hasn't yet yielded answers about why so many people in nursing homes recently got COVID-19, but it may have cont...

UPDATE, 4 p.m. Wednesday The lightning-sparked fire on Twin Peaks Mountain has been named the Twin Sisters Fire, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The fire remains small and is smoldering, accordi...

A man accused of sending nude photos to women and allegedly harassing them with messages on social media has been arrested. Neill Chismire, 31, was arrested on a warrant for alleged indecent exposure ...

While Colorado met President Joe Biden’s goal of administering at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot to 70 percent of adults by July 4, most counties haven’t yet, including Ouray County. Local infections...

Rescue crews on Saturday recovered the body of a man who died after falling while descending Mount Sneffels. The man, identified Monday as Peter Andrew Clarke, 54, of Breckenridge, was climbing by him...

Ouray County residents are being warned to keep windows closed after a few bruin break-ins. Warm temperatures encouraged some to crank open those windows recently, but wily bears who can smell food f...

All the traditional Independence Day activities that were nixed by COVID-19 last year returned to Ouray on Sunday — the parade, the children's games and, of course, the water fights. Check out our ga...

Top left: Cashton Hirt, center, competes in the gunny sack race on Sunday in Fellin Park, organized by the Ouray Volunteer Fire Department. The games were resurrected this year after they were cancel...

Short-term rental owners operating illegally in the city of Ouray will be fined thousands of dollars, be required to pay lodging taxes retroactively and be temporarily banned from applying for a renta...

UPDATE at 2:35 p.m. Wednesday: The search for Paul McElrea has been called off. According to county emergency responders, his body was found in the area of mile marker 103, near Orvis Hot Springs, off...

The Ridgway Marshal's Office is looking for information about a Ridgway motorcyclist who was last seen leaving his home Monday night. Paul Mcelrea, 52, left his home on his vintage Moto Guzzi motorcyc...

Rescue crews on Saturday recovered the body of a man who died after falling while descending Mount Sneffels. The man was climbing by himself, had summited the 14,158-foot peak early Friday afternoon —...

Colorado will no longer require masks in schools, under a new Public Health Order from the Department of Public Health Environment announced Thursday.  Previously, schools were one of the few location...

GUNNISON A falling rock killed a construction worker in the Little Blue Creek Canyon area of U.S. Highway 50 on Tuesday, prompting an emergency closure. According to Gunnison County Coroner MIchael Ba...

My approach to illustrate the history of our valley open space is to break the historical time into some distinct phases. The first such phase is the occupation of this area by American Indians. The s...