The Ridgway Area Chamber of Commerce board president is stepping down, citing recent family health issues requiring his attention and time. In a letter sent to Ridgway area business owners this week...

  The owners of the Twin Peaks Lodge & Hot Springs will begin to size up next week the final hurdle they need to clear to win approval of a major remodel and expansion of the resort. The Ouray Plannin...

  Ridgway continues to grapple with its new water rates, and months after business owners complained about their water bills tripling in cost for overages, residents are now following suit. After rece...

  A dried-up soccer field that led to concerns from team members’ parents is being watered again, avoiding a major setback for the undefeated Ridgway High School Boys soccer team. Coach Jon Kornbluh w...

HS Girls Varsity 5K (105 runners): Kaitlyn Winkelmann … 23:41.00 … 32nd (PR…old PR = 24:24.10, Warrior Invitational, 2019) Raja Braford-Lefebvre … 24:48.00 … 44th Katie Woodman … 25:23.00 … 48th Anna ...

  Months after Ouray city councilors agreed to require an application and licensing process for vacation rentals, very few people are complying with the rules. With the city’s Oct. 20 application dead...

  The destruction can come at the hand of Mother Nature through heavy snowload and avalanche debris, especially this past winter and spring. It can be human-triggered, by campers and vandals who aren’...

  “How’s the fishing?” That’s a question Eric Gardunio has endured for years up here at Crystal Reservoir. This time, it’s an angler from New Mexico passing through on vacation who spotted the Colora...

  It took a while to get it rolling. But there will be a 55th year of the Ouray Jeep Raffle. The Ouray Tourism Office received the final clearance it needed from the Colorado Secretary of State's Offi...

Ridgway town councilors are considering a new outdoor lighting ordinance – one that would incorporate rules aligning with International Dark Sky Association standards to help the town obtain certifica...

By Carolina Brown & Erin McIntyre Ten-year-old Jack Jaime can ride his bike to the baseball field near his house in Ridgway. But there’s no point, really, since it’s a field of crunchy weeds. Though t...

SILVERTON - Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., made a stop in Silverton on Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 4, and promised to pressure the Forest Service and BLM to devote more resources to the increasingly popul...

  Bears seeking food to fatten up for winter targeted a Ouray restaurant early Wednesday, destroying a freezer and scattering debris through the alley. The standing freezer, located behind The Goods r...

  One of the candidates for the Ridgway School Board election has bowed out of the race, voicing his support for two other candidates. Nate Wick said he decided to discontinue his campaign after two o...

  Ouray County voters will have a roads-funding question to consider on the ballot in November, which includes a sunset provision ending one part of the funding in 25 years. The question asks voters t...

  The search for Ouray’s next police chief has narrowed to four candidates, and the community will have the chance to meet them later this month. Ouray Police Officer Bernie Chism; Douglas Ford, the c...

  Members of a local sex-assault prevention group confronted Ouray County officials on Tuesday, citing concerns with the recent indictment of the former undersheriff on alleged sex crimes and demandin...

  When Andrea Sokolowski moved to Ridgway in 2014, she noticed a pattern. Everyone was talking about how hard it was to find housing. Five years later, people are still talking about it. Local social ...

  The city of Ouray is in violation of its wastewater operations permit with the state of Colorado, underscoring the reasons behind the city’s push to build a new treatment plant. The Colorado Departm...