The Ouray City Council will ask voters this November to approve a 15% excise tax on short-term rentals, and have instituted a cap on the number of rental permits in the city, with exceptions only for ...

A free Dark Sky program is scheduled at Top of the Pines, 1035 Highland Dr., from Aug. 9-12. The events include educational workshops, laser constellation tours and the "Saving the Dark" documentary f...

A climber who fell while descending Mount Sneffels last week endured stormy weather and spent the night on the mountain with his rescuers before he was plucked off the peak and flown to the hospital. ...

San Miguel Power Association's plans to close U.S. Highway 550 over Red Mountain Pass starting next week will be delayed again because the Colorado Department of Transportation won't grant the rural e...

Transportation officials have opened up U.S. Highway 50 between Gunnison and Montrose for travel, to cars traveling east and west, as the northern route across Colorado's mountains remains closed. Rep...

A Montrose man who died after falling into Dexter Creek Canyon while fleeing a Ouray police officer in May had a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit, according to an autopsy. Dr. De...

The Joint Colorado Independent Redistricting Commissions will hold public hearings in Montrose and Grand Junction on Friday to take public testimony about the preliminary maps for the state’s eight co...

Western Slope county commissioners met with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper at Top of the Pines outside of Ridgway Saturday, advocating for the passage...

Ridgway’s Planning Commission cleared the way for three deed-restricted homes in the Parkside subdivision, but denied approval for a 10-unit development on Liddell Drive, citing concerns about density...

A story on Page 1 in the July 22-28 edition mistakenly indicated Wild West Realty co-owner Sharon Wild performs property management services for seven licensed short-term rentals in Ouray. Wild stoppe...

Ouray County, in partnership with Hinsdale, San Juan and San Miguel counties, has received funding to help address impacts to the popular Alpine Loop. The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission approv...

The monsoonal moisture has enabled several local and federal agencies to lift Stage 1 fire restrictions. Ouray County, the town of Ridgway, the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests, t...

The city of Ouray will host a pair of informational meetings Aug. 3 for candidates considering running for City Council this fall. The mayor's seat and two council seats are up for election. The meeti...

At the conclusion of a nearly six-hour public hearing, Ouray County commissioners voted 2-1 last week to let a controversial marijuana grow facility on Log Hill remain open. The decision lasts until O...

Locals most affected by periodic flooding of Corbett Creek where it crosses County Road 17 approve of a design plan developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, according to a citizen speaking for h...

San Miguel Power Association will close Red Mountain Pass to conduct wildfire mitigation work starting Aug. 9, turning away a request from Ouray city officials to further delay the project to avoid di...

Ouray County commissioners got some hands-on show-and-tell at a work session on county road maintenance with Road and Bridge Superintendent Ty Barger on July 21. Barger brought samples of what he refe...

GUNNISON Western Colorado University’s former board of trustees chair Chris Blees called it a “gaping hole,” and its new interim president referred to it as “troubling.” It’s a $3.4 million structural...

Aaliyah Venham stood in Hartwell Park on Sunday afternoon, marveling at the crowd. Roughly 250 people had gathered to celebrate the first-ever Pride event in Ouray County, organized by youth in the c...

Ouray County commissioners plan to rescind the local emergency disaster declaration next week, more than sixteen months after it was adopted as the coronavirus pandemic began. The declaration gave loc...