San Miguel Power Association pulled back plans to close U.S. Highway 550 over Red Mountain Pass for several hours at a time starting this week after surprised elected officials in Ouray and Silverton ...

Ouray County will bid out short-term rental monitoring, in an effort to crack down on rentals operating illegally without permits, while the City of Ouray is still debating whether to cap rentals or p...

Yankee Boy Basin’s wildflowers are hitting their peak after a dry spell and some nourishing rains. In the foreground of this photo on the left, the flower stalk is Green Gentian, also called monument ...

A woman in her 80s who tested positive for COVID-19 a day before she died is the county's fourth fatality connected with the virus. She had been fully vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine in February, ...

The San Miguel Power Association has postponed plans to intermittently close U.S. Highway 550 over Red Mountain Pass for electrical utility work after Ouray and San Juan County officials strenuously o...

Ouray city officials are inching closer to enacting a series of land-use code changes aimed at creating more workforce housing, though a number of important details must still be hashed out. Ouray cit...

Ouray County commissioners held the third of a series of work sessions on Wednesday to develop comments on a draft plan for the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests. Commissioners Ben...

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 ...

As the city of Ouray works to crack down on illegal short-term rentals, Ouray County is considering ways to improve its own enforcement, potentially by outsourcing that work. The county allows 100 act...

Reggae band Mike Love & The Full Circle play a set during the July 8 Ridgway Concert Series at Hartwell Park. The series features free music every Thursday in July at the park starting at 6 p.m., with...

GUNNISON Gunnison Valley Health employees may soon do office work where shoppers recently sought bargains. Gunnison County commissioners on Tuesday approved the purchase of the Dollar Tree building on...

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...