Masks will now be required in all Ouray County facilities regardless of whether someone has been vaccinated. On Tuesday, commissioners approved the mask rule in county workplace guidelines after modif...

The local Ouray County Community Foundation has awarded $10,000 to local organizations. The Ouray County Public Library's Recovery and Resilience building program and the Voyager Youth Program's Peer ...

County commissioners approved an interim resolution allowing a Log Hill marijuana grow operation until Oct. 4 to prove it has come into compliance with permit conditions, the latest in a series of mee...

Two Ouray businessmen are abandoning plans to build a series of condominiums to house Ouray Silver Mines employees after the city’s community development coordinator cited a host of shortcomings in th...

Ouray County voters will be asked to approve a property tax increase to raise funding for the health department in November. The question will ask voters to approve a 2 mill tax, estimated to cost $14...

GUNNISON The dock was quiet for a summer afternoon on Saturday. Boat slips sat mostly empty as the marina prepared to shut down for the year — six weeks early. Eric Loken's walk from the top of the co...

Two new housing developments in Ouray are moving forward with plans for more than a dozen new units on the city’s north side, both with stated goals of providing rental housing for local workers. The ...

Water users in Ouray County are hoping to satisfy water shortages with what they say is a multi-beneficial reservoir and pipeline project. But the Ram’s Horn reservoir, Cow Creek pipeline and exchang...

County commissioners will decide whether to place two proposed ballot measures before voters on Tuesday, after a special work session today. One of those proposals is to extend term limits for commiss...

Though Ouray County continues to confirm more cases of COVID-19, the vaccination rate also has increased recently. The county currently has 70.7% of its eligible resident vaccinated with at least one ...

Ouray voters will be asked in November to approve a 15% tax on short-term rentals, a measure intended to generate revenue to help offset impacts created by the burgeoning industry. A short-handed Oura...

When Jack Rairden first bought land in Ouray County, cars were few and far between on that part of County Road 1. The quiet, wide open spaces were exactly what he and his wife, Barbara, were looking f...

Above, from left to right, Ouray runners Paton Edwards, Hayden Hart and Kaden Nelson run in the high school boys varsity 5k race at Matchett Park in Grand Junction on Aug. 21. Hart finished 14th, Edw...

San Miguel Power Association finally has everything it needs — a permit, local government approval and a helicopter — to proceed with a long-planned project that will temporarily close U.S. Highway 55...

Ridgway water customers received a letter recently, indicating water users on the town’s system haven’t met a requirement to have 80% of the total back flow prevention devices tested. Roughly 30 to 40...

GUNNISON In a report that almost seems to defy logic, Gunnison County Chief Financial Officer Juan Guerra informed county commissioners on Tuesday that sales tax receipts in June this year rose 41% co...

Six compete for two council seats There will be plenty of competition for three seats on the Ouray City Council this fall. As reported previously, Mayor Greg Nelson will seek re-election facing off ag...

Drew Berger walked around the house, glancing into windows before miming shutting off electricity and gas, calling into his radio after each step. A few moments later, he started jogging back towards ...

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...