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...

Elk Meadows’ homeowners association has filed suit against two property owners in the subdivision after Ouray County received complaints about illegally built structures violating regulations but took...

When Aidan Schreiner arrived in Ridgway, he saw a site with the outlines of one-story buildings, and was a self-described novice when it came to construction. By the time he and the rest of his Americ...

Voters in the Ridgway School District will be asked whether they want to approve a bond measure that would not increase property taxes and a mill levy override that would increase taxes this fall. The...

The Ouray City Council voted Tuesday to allow local employees to live in recreational vehicles on private property for the summer and fall, in an attempt to create a quick solution to the city’s housi...

April and Kevin Rarick had Blue Lakes on their list of must-do Colorado hikes for the past three years, since they first read about the unique hike in a Denver magazine. The glacial basin at the foot...

The city of Ouray intends to proceed with a professional fireworks display on the Fourth of July, with plans to enact several precautions in light of fire restrictions that have been in place for week...

Owners of short-term rentals operating illegally without a license in Ouray won’t be allowed to apply for one, after the City Council voted to temporarily suspend new applications for those properties...

The track and field season ended before it even started last year for Ouray, Ridgway and Silverton student-athletes, teasing them with a few practices before COVID-19 yanked it away from them prior t...

Ouray city councilors vowed on Monday to impose fines and other penalties after learning close to 20% of the short-term rentals in the city may be operating illegally. In a report to the council, Comm...

A 26-year-old Telluride man and his dog died in an early morning crash June 16 south of Ridgway on U.S. Highway 550. The driver has been identified as Silas Berrier, according to the Ouray County Coro...

Motorists and recreationists along and near Red Mountain Pass should expect closures and delays over the next few weeks as the San Miguel Power Association begins its project to rebuild its backup pow...