Ridgway has adopted voluntary water restrictions, citing concerns about continued drought and water supplies. The council unanimously voted to adopt the restrictions on May 12, after a conversation in...

The Ouray School District is dropping its high school girls’ basketball and volleyball programs, citing a lack of participation that will leave those programs without enough players to field teams nex...

Communities that Care receive grant Through the Ouray County Public Health Department, the state has awarded a five-year, $650,000 grant for prevention to address youth problem behaviors including sub...

The Ouray County commissioners met in person this week, in a meeting where the public was restricted to online attendance. We sent reporter Liz Teitz to cover the meeting, which included an item on th...

Glenn Boyd is looking at switching up his collection of hats. Right now, he’s the county’s emergency manager. The other hats he wears include being a paramedic, serving on Ouray city council and – his...

Ouray County commissioners last week approved a maintenance agreement for the upper sections of County Road 5, but not before Commissioner Lynn Padgett raised a host of concerns that led to a brief ve...

GUNNISON Gunnison County leaders celebrated the start of what will be a multi-million dollar overhaul to the Gunnison-Crested Butte Regional Airport this summer with an official groundbreaking on Frid...

Children as young as 12 can begin receiving Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in Colorado starting this week, and Ouray County school districts are hoping to set up mobile vaccination clinics for their eligib...

Graduation events in Ouray County will largely return to normal this month after a roller coaster ride full of shutdowns and quarantines. While the Ridgway class of 2021 missed out on prom and a tradi...

With the busiest tourist season just around the corner, businesses are struggling to find enough employees to staff up, and they’re pointing to a lack of available housing as one of the hurdles. “We’...

Ouray County’s former sheriff pleaded guilty in two drunk-driving cases this week, in agreements allowing him to avoid jail time if he completes alcohol evaluations and public service. Prosecutors in ...

Trail clearing scheduled at Ridgway State Park Local residents are invited to help clear trails of brush and invasive weeds at Ridgway State Park on Saturday. Great Old Broads for Wilderness is hostin...

Ouray County appraisal values jumped by 16 percent since the last revaluation in 2019, the result of climbing sales prices. Total residential assessed values increased by 25 percent from 2019, the las...

UPDATE, 11:38 a.m. Power has been restored. Utility officials attributed the service interruption to equipment damage. Crews made the repairs and re-energized the line. -------------------------------...

A Durango woman who was killed last week in a rare bear attack was identified Tuesday. Laney Malavolta, 39, died of a perforating injury to her neck, according to the La Plata County Coroner’s Office....

Ouray County commissioners will continue to discuss an agreement with property owners to maintain County Road 5 as well as a new kiosk for the Miller Mesa Recreational Trail. As part of the agreement,...

GUNNISON Gunnison Valley irrigators can breathe a sigh of relief: Despite low snowpack and low reservoir storage, Uncompahgre Valley water users say they will not demand more water out of the Gunnison...

Two planned marijuana cultivation facilities in Ouray County are on hold after commissioners adopted a moratorium on retail marijuana operations last week. The commissioners are tackling a revision of...

Ouray County Plaindealer co-owners, publishers and editors Erin McIntyre and Mike Wiggins have jointly been awarded the 2021 Keeper of the Flame award by the Colorado chapter of the Society of Profess...

The city of Ouray will pay an engineering firm more than $220,000 to design a water treatment plant as it faces a strict federally mandated deadline to bring the plant online. City councilors unanimou...