The Ouray School Board passed a budget without step increases to staff salary on Monday after lengthy deliberation during that meeting as well as a meeting June 25 on how to balance budget shortfalls ...

Federal and local agencies moved swiftly and simultaneously this week to implement fire bans across Ouray County and the surrounding region, citing parched conditions and a high wildfire danger. Ouray...

Ouray County commissioners told County Administrator Connie Hunt last week during her annual performance evaluation that she works too hard and is too good at what she does, and tasked her with taking...

Ouray County has another new case of COVID-19 – a woman in her 30s who has tested positive. This is the third positive case of the virus in the past 12 days, and the 11th active case of the virus dete...

Some Ouray County business owners are calling on elected officials to require masks indoors, citing confrontations with visitors who refuse to follow the businesses’ rules. Local governments thus far ...

Voters decisively ousted Sheriff Lance FitzGerald in the county's first recall election, after a bipartisan effort to remove him from office succeeded a nd he was unseated in a landslide. Unofficial e...

UPDATE as of 9:58 p.m. Ouray County Sheriff Lance FitzGerald has been ousted in a landslide – with 93 percent of voters opting to vote him out of office. Preliminary results show 2,527 votes in favor ...

The Board of County Commissioners approved a county-wide stage one fire ban starting Thursday, preventing the use of fireworks over the July 4 weekend.  Commissioner Ben Tisdel requested the board dis...

Police say a recent Ouray High School graduate was fortunate to escape with no injuries after her car plunged off a hill on County Road 361 last weekend. Tristyn Guzman, 18, who graduated in May, craw...

Ouray city councilors have repeatedly said they want to re-examine how money is spent to market the city to tourists. Now they’re creating a committee to help them do just that. The city is accepting ...

After nearly five hours of contentious public hearings, comments and deliberation, Ouray County commissioners agreed Tuesday to allow a marijuana grow operation to expand on Log Hill Mesa. During the ...

GUNNISON One of the key issues hotly debated in the 2018 Gunnison County Sheriff's election continues to plague the department - that of turnover. And the question posed then remains unanswered today ...

Some Ouray County employers have asked workers to get coronavirus antibody tests in order to return to work, against the advice of medical experts who question the tests’ value and accuracy. In the la...

Colorado is rolling out a new ad campaign to encourage visitors to socially distance and wear masks if they decide to vacation here, asking tourists to be responsible. Gov. Jared Polis debuted the edu...

The Ouray City Council has granted a special noise permit to the owners of Goldbelt Bar and Grill that will allow them to have live music on select dates this summer. Councilors unanimously approved t...

Colorado is bracing for a long, hot summer and more than 80 percent of the state is already in abnormally dry to drought conditions, according to information from the state climatologist’s office this...

The Ouray Hot Springs Pool reopened Monday with limited guests and facilities, more than three months after closing. Instead of the hundreds of people who would typically visit on a warm June day, th...

The candidates seeking to replace Sheriff Lance FitzGerald have raised three times as much in campaign contributions as the race in which he was elected in 2018. Together, the candidates hoping to uns...

Local governments across Colorado saw their sales tax revenue crater in June in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in Ouray County the results were decidedly mixed. The city of Ouray reported a 27...

Ouray County has submitted a request to the state to allow pools to admit 200 people or 75 percent of capacity. County commissioners, acting as the Board of Health, approved the variance request to be...