Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association’s recent announcement that it will build a series of solar and wind projects to help replace the power produced by New Mexico and Colorado coal plants...

Volunteers with the Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership continue to monitor sections of waterways for water quality issues and are planning an upcoming project to improve water quality in Governor Basin...

Members of the Ouray Ice Park board of directors and an owner of a local guiding company are concerned about the effect an extended closure of County Road 361 is having on the Ice Park and the local e...

Workers are completing the finishing touches on the Ouray County Courthouse renovation, a project that has been in progress for more than a year. The project also includes a new building on the east ...

After a two-week early start and despite heavy snowfall so far this winter, the Ridgway Public Library expansion project is still on — and perhaps a little ahead of — schedule. The expectation is for ...

GUNNISON The benefit of the Gunnison-Crested Butte Regional Airport (GUC) to the surrounding area has soared in the last seven years, and that has county leaders all smiles. According to the latest fi...

A Ridgway man who wants to run for mayor has been blocked by the town clerk on the grounds that he hasn’t met the residency requirements to run for office. David Gottorff is protesting the decision ma...

The city of Ouray will bring in a marketing expert from the Colorado Tourism Office to help negotiate a new contract with the Ouray Tourism Office. An occasionally tense 90-minute work session on Mond...

A month into his tenure as Ridgway’s new top administrator, Preston Neill’s office is pretty bare. You won’t find motivational posters hanging on the walls. His diplomas are propped on a bookshelf wit...

GUNNISON A cultural establishment in Gunnison is the big winner as city leaders dole out an accumulation of marijuana money through this year’s grant cycle. The Gunnison Arts Center has netted more th...

Ninety petitions to gather signatures to hold Ouray County’s first recall election are circulating, with bipartisan volunteers pushing to collect double the signatures needed to ask voters whether the...

Students, parents and community members of Ridgway School District are overall pretty happy with school infrastructure and believe both buildings meet the needs of students in all areas proposed in a ...

A local marijuana grow facility has received another extension to address complaints from neighbors, the latest in a series of issues holding over from last year. Daniel Castillo of MS Support, a mari...

The Ouray City Council tabled a decision Monday on whether to explore rehabilitating its current sewer lagoons rather than building a new mechanical treatment plant while it waits to find out the envi...

In an effort to preserve historical structures from the Idarado Mine, Ouray County commissioners agreed Tuesday to accept a donation from Newmont Mining Corp. of two of the four Idarado houses located...

Local wedding planner honored with award A Ouray event and wedding planner has received an award from The Knot, earned from high ratings and recommendations from those who have used her services and a...

It should perhaps come as no surprise that, as a retired high school teacher, state Rep. Barbara McLachlan is focused primarily on education issues this legislative session. The package of bills intro...

The group of ice climbers involved in a fatal avalanche that killed a Seattle woman earlier this month tried to dig her out from under a rubble pile of ice with their bare hands before rescuers arrive...

It should perhaps come as no surprise that, as a retired high school teacher, state Rep. Barbara McLachlan is focused primarily on education issues this legislative session. The package of bills intro...