Ty Barger began to get a sense of the unique challenges he faces as the new road and bridge superintendent for Ouray County days before he even clocked in for the first time. He was one of the first p...

GUNNISON Gunnison County leaders may pump the brakes on Kebler Pass traffic this summer with potential weight and length restrictions for vehicles. County commissioners met with Gunnison County Deputy...

Ridgway plans to hold a full lineup of free concerts in July at Hartwell Park, but town leaders warn they’ll scale back if there’s a surge in COVID-19 cases. Town councilors didn’t take formal action ...

After a slow start to vaccine distribution caused by limited supplies, Ouray County is now among the top-vaccinated counties in Colorado, according to data from the state health department. Fifty-eigh...

Citizens who want to have a say in managing activities within the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forest are invited to apply by the end of the mont to serve on the Rocky Mountain Resour...

The Town of Ridgway will hold its annual cleanup day on Saturday, April 24, in the lot behind the Ridgway Public Library off Railroad Street. The event, which is open to town residents only, will go f...

The airport says a lot about Cortez: The single-engine planes that fly into its one-room airport seat nine passengers at most. The city of about 9,000 is known largely as a gateway to beautiful places...

The Town of Ridgway is looking for volunteers for the newly created Ridgway Creative Main Street Group. The new group merges two town initiatives, Ridgway Creative District and Ridgway Main Street, in...

The Ouray City Council on Monday formally approved a Main Street sidewalk replacement program, hoping that the city’s offer to share in some of the costs will encourage business owners to replace crac...

More than 100 new housing units are in the pipeline in Ridgway, as long-discussed projects start to take shape that could rapidly increase the town’s housing stock by about 15 percent in the near futu...

The Ridgway Town Council voted unanimously on April 14 to appoint Adam Beck to fill the seat vacated by Eric Johnson. Four candidates wrote letters to the town expressing interest in filling the posit...

A small landslide northeast of Ridgway Thursday afternoon damaged a drainage ditch, leading to flooding and damage to a pair of county roads, according to Ouray County Sheriff Justin Perry. County Roa...

Ouray police confiscated two movie-prop hundred dollar bills after a Texas man tried to pay with one at the Goldbelt Bar & Grill on March 21, Chief Jeff Wood said. The bills are not counterfeit, he sa...

Ouray County has agreed to join hundreds of other businesses, local governments and private individuals in obtaining its electricity from 100 percent renewable energy sources. The Board of County Comm...

Snowmelt is starting to fill the Uncompahgre River. And there’s a reward for you if you can correctly predict the date and time it’ll reach its maximum flow. The Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership has ...

A man convicted of sexual assault almost 20 years ago is asking a Ouray County judge to allow him to stop registering as a sex offender. Terry McGowan was arrested in 2002 after a girl reported she ha...

Ridgway School District will wait to survey the public on a possible funding request until after finding out if it received a state grant for renovating the elementary school. If the district makes th...

GUNNISON Western Colorado University’s Board of Trustees kicked off a listening tour Monday with a session to hear from faculty. During the hourlong meeting, faculty raised issues with Western’s scien...

The pair of chickens were just about finished in Jeff Wood’s pellet smoker, and now it was a waiting game for the Ouray police chief. Remove them too early, and they’re too hot to do anything with. Re...

Concerts in the park can resume this summer with social distancing requirements but no capacity limits enforced by the state. Ouray’s Mountain Air Music Series will likely be scaled back, with one eve...