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...

Ouray County commissioners will add revisions to wildfire mitigation regulations to their to-do list, and discussed changing how the land use office handles code enforcement complaints after hearing a...

Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon is expected to open Saturday afternoon, according to information provided Wednesday by the Colorado Department of Transportation. Extensive damage from mudslides and d...

Salsa-maker Amy Lasley used to throw away the disposable gloves she wears during food preparation. But as the price of nitrile gloves skyrocketed in recent months, she’s started to disinfect them with...

GUNNISON Gunnison County commissioners on Tuesday approved the next steps in a plan that could result in breaking ground on a new affordable housing development in Gunnison as early as summer 2022. Th...

Less than a month ago, San Miguel Power Association had an aggressive timeline in mind for work meant to reduce the chances its aging power line atop Red Mountain Pass could spark a wildfire. The rura...

In his first week on the job at Ouray Brewery, a few customers handed tips to Kortlan Nelson, shocked to see someone so young delivering their food and busing their tables. Seven summers later, the n...

A fifth Ouray County resident has died after testing positive for COVID-19, Emergency Manager Glenn Boyd said Wednesday.  The man, who was in his 80s and tested positive in mid-July, died on Aug. 5.  ...

San Miguel Power Association will not seek to close U.S. Highway 550 over Red Mountain Pass until September because it can't secure the resources it needs to do the work that would precipitate the hig...

Hazy conditions and smoke are expected to return to the skies today and over the weekend, as an air quality advisory has been issued by the state health department. Most of the West Slope has been pla...