Ouray police confiscated two movie-prop hundred dollar bills after a Texas man tried to pay with one at the Goldbelt Bar & Grill on March 21, Chief Jeff Wood said. The bills are not counterfeit, he sa...

Ouray County has agreed to join hundreds of other businesses, local governments and private individuals in obtaining its electricity from 100 percent renewable energy sources. The Board of County Comm...

Snowmelt is starting to fill the Uncompahgre River. And there’s a reward for you if you can correctly predict the date and time it’ll reach its maximum flow. The Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership has ...

A man convicted of sexual assault almost 20 years ago is asking a Ouray County judge to allow him to stop registering as a sex offender. Terry McGowan was arrested in 2002 after a girl reported she ha...

Ridgway School District will wait to survey the public on a possible funding request until after finding out if it received a state grant for renovating the elementary school. If the district makes th...

GUNNISON Western Colorado University’s Board of Trustees kicked off a listening tour Monday with a session to hear from faculty. During the hourlong meeting, faculty raised issues with Western’s scien...

The pair of chickens were just about finished in Jeff Wood’s pellet smoker, and now it was a waiting game for the Ouray police chief. Remove them too early, and they’re too hot to do anything with. Re...

Concerts in the park can resume this summer with social distancing requirements but no capacity limits enforced by the state. Ouray’s Mountain Air Music Series will likely be scaled back, with one eve...

Anyone wanting to travel from Ouray County to Gunnison should plan for significant delays, for the next 20 months. The Little Blue Creek Canyon project on U.S. Highway 50, about halfway between Montr...

Colorado wildfire experts are warning that conditions are setting up for wildfires as bad as last year, when the three largest forest fires on record burned for months. But this time, they think the s...

Two groups with very different ideas about what drives the cost of health insurance both have their eyes on Garfield County, where residents pay significantly more than similar people living on Colora...

The pandemic has brought an influx of homebuyers to Ouray County, elevating sales and prices and reducing inventory to historically low levels. A look at some of the key statistics and how they compar...

Ouray County Public Health canceled its Johnson & Johnson vaccine clinics this week after two federal agencies recommended pausing the use of the vaccine while they investigate "extremely rare" advers...

Cameron White was ready to call it quits. He’d been employed most of his working life with a Maryland stormwater management company, climbing the ladder to director of operations. He and his wife Mary...

Ridgway Town Councilors will choose a new person to fill a vacancy on the board at tonight’s meeting, and they have four applicants to choose from. The vacancy happened when no one applied to run for ...

Ouray County Public Health is canceling its Johnson & Johnson vaccine clinics this week after two federal health agencies recommended pausing the use of the vaccine while they investigate "extremely r...

GUNNISON Western Colorado University’s Board of Trustees ostensibly called a special meeting Tuesday to discuss the hiring of a discussion facilitator. But the trustees made an altogether different de...

A house located on County Road 5, donated for fire training, is expected to be burned down this weekend. The Ridgway Fire Department has been conducting training inside the home at 7137 County Road 5 ...

After the state announced last week that anyone over 16 would be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine, Niki Dow began searching. She’d already been vaccinated at the 4-H Center in Ridgway, but she wanted t...

Replacing penstock, water line, bridge will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars The hard work is done. A helicopter last week hauled away from the bottom of the Uncompahgre River Gorge the mangled ...