Ouray County Attorney Carol Viner cautioned commissioners they need to be wary of becoming too relaxed during public meetings and they need to adhere to state open meetings laws, even as the pandemic ...

Everything is geared toward July. Hoteliers know sparse bookings in the spring will give way to crowded calendars. Restaurant owners conduct deep cleanings or close entirely after a spasm of winter to...

Citing a loss in revenue attributed to canceling elective surgeries and procedures related to COVID-19, Montrose Memorial Hospital announced it has laid off 19 employees after enduring as much as a S5...

Even in a pandemic, we deserve to have public business discussed in public, and we deserve to know what’s going on around here. But that’s getting harder and harder to do as this situation drags on. F...

GUNNISON As COVID-19 continues to impact the economy, flights in and out of the Gunnison-Crested Butte Regional Airport largely remain up in the air. One impact is that United Airlines has dropped Hou...

The town of Silverton announced this morning it will cancel its Fourth of July celebration this year, joining Telluride as southwestern Colorado towns that have nixed Independence Day festivities in l...

The FJ Summit, a five-day event that brings dozens of Toyota owners to Ouray every summer, has been canceled for this year. Summit directors announced today on the FJ Summit's website that they were p...

The Ridgway School Board is conside ring using reserve funds instead of making cuts to an already tight budget. Superintendent Susan Lacy told the board during a May 7 special session that the distric...

Five months after the idea of exploring "home rule" came up at a commissioners meeting, Ouray County scheduled a presentation about home rule counties at a special work session Wednesday night. "Home ...

Ouray County is requesting a variance from part of the governor’s “safer at home” public health order, asking for permission to allow short-term rentals to resume operations when the county’s lodging ...

There won’t be any mortarboards tossed into the air after turning tassels. There won’t be group photos with friends, standing close with arms around each other. There won't be flowers handed out or be...

The city of Ouray is expected to cancel all traditional Fourth of July festivities this year, citing concerns about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the likelihood that a prohibition on mass gathe...

When the headaches, diarrhea and fatigue set in, Andrea Iuppenlatz thought she might have altitude sickness. She and her husband, Mark, had returned to their home in Ouray on March 21 after spending s...

In a split vote, the Ouray City Council agreed May 7 to hire professional photographer and social media manager Markus Van Meter to handle digital marketing for the city for the rest of the year. The ...

The Ouray School Board will choose its new superintendent from two finalists, after interviewing three and having one pull her application from consideration after she discovered that the spouse of a ...

GUNNISON As COVID-19 continues to impact the economy, flights in and out of the Gunnison-Crested Butte Regional Airport largely remain up in the air. One impact is that United Airlines has dropped Hou...

When Mountain Medical Center in Ridgway got its start 20 years ago as an experiment in rural taxpayer-subsidized medicine, nobody imagined it would one day become ground zero for local testing in a w...

Park concerts canceled The ninth annual Mountain Air Music Series will not begin in June as previously scheduled, due to concerns related to COVID-19. The free concerts, traditionally held at Fellin P...

Every day before Avery MacKenzie leaves for work, she steels herself for the emotional challenges of her upcoming shift. This usually involves a lot of coffee. Once she is sufficiently caffeinated, s...

Four months after the idea of exploring “home rule” came up at a commissioners meeting, Ouray County will have a presentation about home rule counties at a special work session Wednesday night at 5:30...