Ouray School has revised its mask policy, allowing high school students to remove them while in classrooms due to higher vaccination rates. As of Friday, 83.3% of all high school students and 87% of s...

Editor's note:  This is the second profile in an occasional series highlighting those in Ouray County who are struggling to find housing, living in unusual situations or trying to solve the housing pr...

GUNNISON The first wave of renters is scheduled to move into the Paintbrush Apartments on Friday, a new affordable housing development in Gunnison. Although 76 new units are entering the market, the n...

Name: Tony Criscuolo Age: 77 Profession: Substitute teacher and yoga teacher Years in Ouray County: 3 Why are you interested in serving on the Ridgway School Board? The board can influence the educat...

Ouray School has revised its mask policy, allowing high school students to remove them while in classrooms, due to higher vaccination rates.  As of Friday, 83.3% of all high school students and 87% of...

When Heather Toth looks at the current Ouray City Council trying to untie the huge knot created by the city’s affordable and workforce housing crisis, she sees five people who own their homes, who hav...

GUNNISON It would lead to construction industry layoffs. It would put an undue burden on property owners. It would overwhelm county staff. It would infringe on constitutional property rights. It would...

As a kid growing up in Ouray, living in his parents’ trailer on Oak Street, David Huddleston never imagined that at 36, he’d still be living there. Buying a house in his hometown seemed out of reach, ...

Ouray County commissioners formally hired a new county attorney Tuesday after a nearly nine-month search to find a full-time replacement for Carol Viner. Chairman Ben Tisdel read new County Attorney L...

A 72-year-old man died on the Ridgway Area Trails on Monday, after hitting a tree while riding his bike. Douglas Seitz, who lived part-time in Ridgway and permanently in Arizona, was found unresponsiv...

Paolo Zialcita Colorado Public Radio   The origin of Fort Lewis College in Durango is a dark stain on American education and the state of Colorado. The school’s own leaders have said as much. Once a p...

Black Hills Energy is asking the state to allow it to increase rates for natural gas and electricity, to recover costs from Winter Storm Uri back in February. There are two separate requests before th...

Ouray County commissioners denied an application for a marijuana cultivation facility on Log Hill Mesa on Tuesday. Commissioners voted unanimously to deny the application submitted by Canaboo Farms, L...

Ridgway may join a short list of municipalities that have recently adopted resolutions recognizing that nature has inherent legal rights. The council directed staff to draw up a resolution after Mayor...

A letter sent to elections officials statewide has raised concerns about security for this November's elections and potential safety issues. Ouray County Clerk Michelle Nauer received the same letter ...

The Ouray School District will not have an election for three seats this fall, because only two candidates applied to run and were certified to run for the openings. According to Superintendent Tod Lo...

The city of Ouray plans to initiate legal action against seven property owners who have been illegally operating short-term rentals, a process that could result in thousands of dollars in fines and pe...

Local Jeep tour and off-road rental companies are shifting schedules and canceling tours to deal with the impacts the closure of Highway 550 at Red Mountain Pass will have on their businesses. The hig...

BLUE MESA RESERVOIR — In an effort to prop up water levels at the declining Lake Powell, federal water managers are negatively impacting recreation on Colorado’s biggest manmade lake. That’s the messa...