Election Day is on Tuesday, and early ballot returns indicate 841 ballots had been turned in to the county elections office as of Wednesday morning, just over 18% of the total ballots mailed to regist...

Montrose Memorial Hospital is reporting a surge of COVID-19 cases and record patient numbers in the Emergency Department, forcing more patient transfers and longer wait times.  Instead of slowing down...

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 and every Tuesday and Wednesday night at 7 at St. Daniel’s Church, 614 Fifth St., Ouray. Every Thursday and Sunday at 7 p.m. in the sanctua...

Ouray Mayor Greg Nelson and City Councilor Ethan Funk presented disparate visions in their respective bids for the mayor’s seat during an Oct. 14 candidate forum, parting ways on issues ranging from ...

Ouray County Public Health Director Tanner Kingery asked county commissioners Tuesday to schedule a conversation about a mask mandate, prompted by a recent increase in COVID-19 cases. He didn’t recomm...

A San Juan County commissioner is among the six property owners Ouray city officials claim are illegally operating short-term rental units within the city, according to records obtained by the Plainde...

Ouray Mayor Greg Nelson is the only one of the six candidates for City Council who has received donations in the Nov. 2 race so far, and he and Tamara Gulde, running for a council seat, have spent the...

Half a block of North Laura Street will be closed for about three months to accommodate construction for the town of Ridgway’s Space to Create project. The closure is motivated by safety reasons, acco...

As soon as Dolgio Nergui and Dan Hughes started looking at houses in Ouray, the problem was clear: without another income source, it wasn’t going to be doable. “When you’re buying a house here, you’r...

After a four-hour hearing Tuesday, Ouray County commissioners unanimously approved the one-year renewal of a marijuana cultivation license for a controversial grow facility on Log Hill. MS Support wil...

From the time Josh Smith was rewinding tapes at his parents' video rental store when he was 12 years old and getting an internship at an architecture firm in high school to owning his own businesses, ...

A story on Page 1 in the Oct. 7-13 edition should have listed Ouray City Council candidate Heidi Forbes’s first name as Heidi, not Heather. A news brief on Page 22 in the Oct. 7-13 edition should have...

The critical importance of an independent free press to a thriving democracy and the vital role played by small-town newspapers will be center stage at a special screening of an award-winning document...

Colorado voters will be able to track their ballots online again for the 2021 general election on Nov. 2. The Secretary of State's elections office initiated the program last year and the technology a...

When Ouray residents lamented the fact that there was no place to wash laundry in town following the closure of a laundromat years ago, Jason and Amber Perkins built a laundromat at Ouray RV Park & Ca...

      Ouray County voters will be asked next month to approve a 2 mill tax to support the Ouray County Public Health Agency, an unusual approach in the state for funding the department. The tax would ...

Tamara Gulde insists she wasn't planning on running for council herself. She spent weeks this summer visiting with other residents, encouraging them to run for one of the two available positions. Peop...

GUNNISON The Western Power Area Administration, which provides 28% of Gunnison’s electricity, notified the city that they cannot meet the current demand for hydroelectric power due to low flows along ...

The Ouray Library District is asking voters to head off potential losses to its revenue, should a statewide ballot issue pass. Ballot Issue 6A asks voters to approve an adjustment to the district's 1....