Former Ouray County Undersheriff Richard Herman has been ordered not to interact with children age 18 and younger, including a teenage boy who told law enforcement he was solicited for sex by Herman...

  An increasingly anxious but divided Ouray City Council may soon pull funding for the Ouray Tourism Office if revenues don’t begin to catch up with expenses. Through the end of July, the city’s touri...

  It’s just time for something new. That’s essentially what Jen Coates said after tending her resignation to the Ridgway Town Council this week, in a letter explaining after almost 14 years, it’s time...

WESTERN COLORADO A western Colorado business that offers coworking spaces and helps other such businesses manage their operations has received one of the first so-called opportunity zone business inve...

  Ouray County will stick with the original route it planned for building fiber internet, despite requests from Delta-Montrose Electric Association to construct a route that would benefit the internet...

  The Ridgway School Board nominated and swore in a new member to fill the vacancy created with the departure of member Cindy Lystad, who now serves as interim Secondary School principal. After interv...

  Four separate accidents on area mountain roads and trails that have killed two people in the past week have first responders asking those who enjoy driving in the mountains to be cautious. One of t...

COLORADO Chad Stewart, who has worked on public lands for 26 years in the West, has been named the new forest supervisor for the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests. Stewart, who pre...

An article in the Aug. 15 edition of the Plaindealer stated the Western Colorado Community Foundation awards more than $3.4 million annually to nonprofits in communities on the Western Slope. The Oura...

SILVERTON - A 56-year-old Lafayette woman died late Monday night, Aug. 12, after a tree fell on the tent she and two other women were sleeping in along the Colorado Trail on upper Cascade Creek. "It i...

  Greg Nelson’s decision to formally declare his candidacy for Ouray mayor outside the Wright Opera House wasn’t by accident. The 58-year-old retired engineer sees how a dedicated group of individuals...

  Ouray City Councilor Dee Hilton announced her resignation late Tuesday night, opening up a spot on a board that could see significant turnover depending upon the results of this fall’s election. May...

COLORADO Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials are warning those who live in areas with bears to be cautious and avoid attracting them with trash, food, bird feeders or other food sources after a man ...

TRAFFIC ALERT A bridge replacement in Ouray next week will require crews to close the 300 block of Ninth Avenue for construction. This project by the city’s public works department will last approxima...

Shelley Becker tried to think fast. She had just woken up and was standing outside in her pajamas. She had just let her dog outside, and within seconds heard a scuffle and some whimpering. And now sh...

  The distance from the lobby to the back wall at Citizens State Bank in Ouray is 142 feet. Doug Price knows that number not just because it's in the blueprints for the freshly renovated, historic bu...

WESTERN COLORADO Federal lands officials are warning the public to avoid circumventing avalanche debris on local trails that remain closed after record amounts of heavy snow and downed trees blocked t...

By Olivia Exstrum, Special to the Plaindealer oliviaexstrum@gmail.com One summer a couple years ago, Leslie Chang let out a huge sigh of relief. Chang, an author and journalist, had just arrived in Co...