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...

Another day of monsoonal moisture brought heavy rains to Ouray County and triggered mudslides and rockfall on Red Mountain Pass Wednesday afternoon. Several small rocks tumbled onto U.S. Highway 550 b...

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...

San Miguel Power Association plans to close Red Mountain Pass the second and third week of August and two more weeks in September to clear right-of-way and other hazard trees — preparation work it nee...

At the conclusion of a nearly six-hour public hearing, Ouray County commissioners on Thursday afternoon voted 2-1 to approve an interim resolution allowing a controversial marijuana grow facility to r...

The Log Hill Volunteer Fire Department extinguished a haystack fire that burned for more than 13 hours overnight on Snow Bush Drive.  After responding to the fire at about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, firefig...

A woman in her 80s who tested positive for COVID-19 a day before she died is the county's fourth fatality connected with the virus. She had been fully vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine in February, ...

Impacts to public lands and issues related to overuse dominated the Ouray County commissioner meeting this week, in which everything from long-term RV camping enforcement to wildflower picking was dis...

When Taylor Morgan walked around the corner of her house with her coffee cup in hand on Monday morning, she wasn’t expecting this. A mountain lion lay under her daughter’s bedroom window, next to the ...

A recent survey has found strong voter support for two November 2021 ballot measures proposing improvements to Ridgway School District. A task force of community leaders, teachers and parents met Mond...

Blue Lakes input sought The Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison national forests is collecting public input on management of the Blue Lakes area, within the Mt. Sneffels Wilderness. A virtual informa...

San Miguel Power Association pulled back plans to close U.S. Highway 550 over Red Mountain Pass for several hours at a time starting this week after surprised elected officials in Ouray and Silverton ...

Ouray County will bid out short-term rental monitoring, in an effort to crack down on rentals operating illegally without permits, while the City of Ouray is still debating whether to cap rentals or p...

Yankee Boy Basin’s wildflowers are hitting their peak after a dry spell and some nourishing rains. In the foreground of this photo on the left, the flower stalk is Green Gentian, also called monument ...

A woman in her 80s who tested positive for COVID-19 a day before she died is the county's fourth fatality connected with the virus. She had been fully vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine in February, ...

The San Miguel Power Association has postponed plans to intermittently close U.S. Highway 550 over Red Mountain Pass for electrical utility work after Ouray and San Juan County officials strenuously o...

Ouray city officials are inching closer to enacting a series of land-use code changes aimed at creating more workforce housing, though a number of important details must still be hashed out. Ouray cit...

Ouray County commissioners held the third of a series of work sessions on Wednesday to develop comments on a draft plan for the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests. Commissioners Ben...