Local school districts are considering a partnership with a Denver foundation to provide frequent COVID-19 testing and symptom tracking for teachers and students when school starts later this month. R...

The Ouray County Rodeo Association has canceled this year’s rodeo, citing unsustainable costs if attendance is limited due to COVID-19. “The board has basically decided that with the number of people ...

GUNNISON Gunnison County health officials will be meeting with state officials later this week to discuss the rising cases of COVID-19 1ocally. The county's current caseload has alarmed officials at t...

Ouray County commissioners and staff spent four hours on Tuesday in a virtual meeting with the Army Corps of Engineers to discuss possible solutions to recurring flooding of Corbett Creek on County Ro...

Ouray city officials are inching closer to asking voters in November to extend a property tax that pays for projects designed to protect homes and businesses from flood damage. While they didn’t take ...

SILVERTON — Judy Kuhlman adjusted her blue surgical mask and pink gloves before settling herself on the long, wooden platform, resting the heels of her boots against the ridges in preparation for anot...

Lynn Padgett would have loved to continue her tenure as a county commissioner at the end of her second term, back in 2016. Term limits prevented her from doing that, but she might have a chance to do ...

The Ouray County Rodeo Association has canceled this year’s rodeo, citing unsustainable costs if attendance is limited due to COVID-19. “The board has basically decided that with the number of people ...

The state has granted a variance to Ouray County for increased capacity at both indoor and outdoor pools. The approval came on Wednesday night in an email to Health Department Director Tanner Kingery,...

Lynn Padgett would have loved to continue her tenure as a county commissioner at the end of her second term, back in 2016. Term limits prevented her from doing that, but she might have a chance to do ...

Tammee Tuttle ate several years ago at Shooters Grill, the Rifle restaurant made nationally famous for its armed wait staff. But it wasn’t until last weekend that Tuttle, the owner of True Grit Cafe ...

GUNNISON This isn’t the first pandemic Cattlemen’s Days organizers in Gunnison have faced. And they’re determined not to let this one bring a halt to the annual celebration of cowboys and the western ...

An idea to charge an additional tax to help pay for a new wastewater treatment plant turned into a discussion during Monday night’s Ouray City Council meeting about how the city can generate more reve...

An on-scene coordinator with the Environmental Protection Agency has voiced concerns about how effective efforts at the old Atlas Mill site will be in the longterm at keeping mine tailings runoff out ...

Visitor tested positive for virus A woman visiting from Texas back in July is the latest person confirmed to have had coronavirus with a test performed here in Ouray County. Though her positive test w...

Before starting math class last week, six Ridgway middle-schoolers carefully chose their spots in the shady space outside the school building, clipboards and pencils in hand. Each wore a mask as they...

Campgrounds are full, Jeeps and paddleboards are in short supply, and local outdoor recreation businesses are seeing more customers than past years, as people opt for trips to less populated areas wit...

A dispute over who had the right-of-way on a local Jeep trail led to an arrest for alleged assault last week. Congested routes and lack of following trail etiquette led to the incident. On Saturday, a...

A woman visiting from Texas back in July is the latest person confirmed to have had coronavirus with a test performed here in Ouray County. Though her positive test won't officially count as a Ouray C...

GUNNISON A Gunnison County Sheriff’s deputy has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation into his social media account. However in the initial hours of the inve...