When Mountain Medical Center in Ridgway got its start 20 years ago as an experiment in rural taxpayer-subsidized medicine, nobody imagined it would one day become ground zero for local testing in a w...

Park concerts canceled The ninth annual Mountain Air Music Series will not begin in June as previously scheduled, due to concerns related to COVID-19. The free concerts, traditionally held at Fellin P...

Every day before Avery MacKenzie leaves for work, she steels herself for the emotional challenges of her upcoming shift. This usually involves a lot of coffee. Once she is sufficiently caffeinated, s...

Four months after the idea of exploring “home rule” came up at a commissioners meeting, Ouray County will have a presentation about home rule counties at a special work session Wednesday night at 5:30...

Ouray County will seek a variance to resolve a new issue created by the state’s “safer at home” order which conflicts with the county’s plan to allow lodging bookings to resume on May 16. The state di...

Restless tourists wondering when they’ll be able to pack up the car and head to Ouray won’t find an answer on the website dedicated solely to marketing the self-proclaimed "Outdoor Recreation Capital ...

Ouray County Public Health Director Tanner Kingery says he expects a prohibition on mass gatherings to linger through the summer, even as other public health orders begin to dissolve. That revelation ...

     

The Ouray School Board will attempt to have as traditional an interview process as possible with the three finalists for superintendent. The finalists will be interviewed in person at 9 a.m, 11 a.m. a...

A statewide group called Energize Colorado is working to help small businesses, nonprofits and healthcare institutions acquire personal protective equipment to help them reopen and get back to work. T...

A charitable fund established to help Ouray County residents in need during the economic downturn has received nearly $300,000 in donations so far. The Ouray County Response Fund, set up as part of th...

SILVERTON The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad now hopes to begin operations on May 26, according to Jim Harper, president of the American Heritage Railway Hotels. “Originally we placed our s...

Ouray County will proceed with its normal schedule of plowing high-country roads, after lengthy discussions about delaying the maintenance to discourage visitors from flocking to the area and potentia...

On May 1, when state officials announced that personal service businesses in Colorado could reopen their doors, the news was met with mixed feelings, even from those in the business. For Kendra Manley...

Even small places deserve good journalism. We’ve said that from the moment we took on the job as the latest in a long line of caretakers here at this 143-year-old newspaper. Bringing another reporter ...

Hundreds of Ouray County residents have filed for unemployment benefits in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, as the economy has all but shut down. A total of 339 people in the county filed for job...

The new coronavirus has dealt significant financial blows to most Ouray County businesses, keeping tourists, the lifeblood of the local economy, at bay and forcing shops and restaurants to severely cu...

Local businesses have had to get creative to maintain their income streams in this time of restrictions on travel and public gatherings. One local business has found an outside-the-box idea that fills...

Restrictions that have strangled Colorado’s economy for the last six weeks are slowly being loosened, and lodgers are itching to open their doors to cooped-up tourists. But state tourism officials bel...

The Ouray School Board revealed the names of the three finalists for the district’s vacant superintendent and principal position at a meeting April 27. The finalists are Tod Lokey, principal of Bayfie...