Investigators are continuing to look into a gruesome accident on U.S. Highway 550 that involved two separate vehicles and killed four horses last week. The first accident happened around 5 a.m., when ...

The county's Planning Commission will focus on updating the master plan, originally written in the 1980s and not updated since 1999. Commissioners and members of the Planning Commission held a joint m...

The San Juans are alive with fall colors, including this stretch along the Million Dollar Highway south of Ouray. This photo was taken on Sept. 27 by local photographer Mike Boruta. The area along Red...

Low stream flow in the Lake Fork River below Lake San Cristobal has prompted partial release of an in-stream water right from the lake, which is controlled by the Colorado Water Conservation Board. At...

Four horses were killed in two separate accidents on Highway 550 this morning, near Cutler Creek just west of mile marker 99. The crash happened around 5 a.m. near the turnoff for the KOA, near the Ce...

Older Coloradans can permanently renew their driver's licenses or identification cards online, now that a new state law has gone into effect. The new law also adjusts the process for renewing licenses...

The Town of Ridgway's housing project has received the first Community Revitalization Grant award this year from Colorado Creative Industries, securing its final round of funding for the project. The ...

San Miguel Power Association has two upcoming power outages planned to upgrade its system and make improvements. The first of those outages will affect Ridgway customers, in an area centered in the do...

Ouray County coffers have grown in the last couple of years due to increased property and sales tax revenue, and that’s triggering requests for more staffing and services from county elected officials...

Ouray County commissioners denied another Log Hill marijuana grow facility application on Tuesday, this one an appeal of staff’s denial. Land Use staff denied the application based on a moratorium on ...

Thirty percent of Ouray County’s housing stock is considered vacant, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, with more than 1,000 housing units reported as unoccupied, despite a housing sho...

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...