Jake Niece’s resume includes everything from firefighting to snowmaking and earning a degree in aerospace engineering. He’s hoping his next entry on that resume will be Ouray County commissioner. The ...

Limited resources have prompted the idea to combine cemetery districts or possibly create a countywide district, and the Ouray County attorney has been tasked with researching the legal details of suc...

Opponents of a plan to reintroduce gray wolves to western Colorado say they need to carefully craft a message to voters built on the belief that the plan is actually a threat to the wolves themselves ...

Three candidates for Ridgway Town Council seats have had their petitions verified by the town clerk and are officially running for office. Mayor John Clark will run again for his position, and two new...

GUNNISON After four weeks of testimony, a Gunnison jury has found a woman accused of murder guilty on two counts of fatal child abuse. The verdict against Madani Ceus was read Feb. 5 at the Gunnison C...

A former Ridgway resident who was indicted by a statewide grand jury for alleged financial crimes has pleaded guilty in the case, in an agreement that will allow him to avoid incarceration. Shawn King...

Ouray City Administrator Justin Perry will resign his post next month to run for Ouray County sheriff, giving voters a peek at a potential replacement should they recall Lance FitzGerald and forcing c...

When Elk Meadows resident Rebecca Kindred first noticed rosy-finches visiting her feeders in the winter in 2016, she was intrigued. She had been a bird-watcher for years, but these were life birds fo...

Construction at the former home of famed actor and environmentalist Dennis Weaver has sparked complaints to state water-quality officials and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. According to the Colorad...

Ouray City Administrator Justin Perry will resign his post in order to run for Ouray County sheriff. Perry submitted his letter of resignation to the City Council on Tuesday. His last day on the job w...

Ouray County officials have ordered the owner of a storage facility to stop using unauthorized storage units for commercial purposes and remove the from property line setbacks by March 15. After Red C...

Ridgway will be most successful in creating less expensive housing by becoming more flexible in the types of housing it allows and loosening restrictions, rather than encouraging a host of new constru...

The Ridgway School Board hopes to ask voters this fall to allow the school district to retain revenue from a mill levy override that is set to expire in 2023. The district would use the money to incre...

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...