Ouray County Sheriff Lance FitzGerald discovered shortly after promoting Richard Herman that his new undersheriff was under investigation for alleged sex crimes in Montrose, but the county didn’t plac...

  The Ouray City Council is backing away from a proposal to ask voters in November to tax the owners of short-term rental units, deciding instead to direct staff to gather more information about a ran...

  A debilitating, highly contagious viral disease affecting horses, cows and pigs has been detected in Ouray County. Earlier this week, the first case of vesicular stomatitis was confirmed in Ouray Co...

  Local DirecTV customers may have noticed a gaping hole in their available channels lately - namely the loss of the Denver CBS affiliate station KCNC, which went dark last month. Fans of shows includ...

  A goose is attacking a duck. It was one of the first calls for service Justin Perry received as a Montrose patrol officer fresh out of the police academy. And it frustrated him. Why were police bei...

WESTERN COLORADO Crews have finished reconstruction of a section of Colorado Highway 145 between Telluride and Cortez that was destroyed by a massive rockslide in May. The $1.2 million project, which ...

When Colorado legalized marijuana, it became a pioneer in creating new policies to deal with the drug. Now the state’s surgeons, nurses and anesthesiologists are becoming pioneers of a different sort ...

TOWN OF RIDGWAY A free concert at United Church of the San Juans in Ridgway features a well-known local soprano as well as ice cream sundaes. Allyson Connally Cotham, the church's choir director, will...

TOWN OF RIDGWAY Artists from around the country will descend on Ridgway this weekend for a festival that blends quality with accessibility. Now in its 35th year, the Ridgway Rendezvous arts and crafts...

The Ouray Hot Springs Pool hosted more than 400 young swimmers from around the state last weekend for the Colorado Summer Club Championships, and among them were four members of the local Screaming E...

  A week before he died, Dave Calhoon was doing one of the things he loved best — letting public officials know where he stood on Ouray County issues. He had served as county commissioner himself for ...

SILVERTON - Voters in Lake City on July 22 rejected a ballot measure that would have banned off-highway vehicles from the town's streets. Town officials report the vote was 119 in favor of the propose...

Ouray County’s new health department director will split her time with San Miguel County, in an agreement where the two governments will share costs to employ Rosalind Penney, who will start her job a...

CITY OF OURAY The Ouray City Council will meet this evening, Aug. 1, to devise wording for a potential ballot question asking voters to approve a tax on short-term rental units to help pay for afforda...

  A longtime Ouray County sheriff’s deputy who had been promoted to undersheriff is accused of soliciting sex from a 15-year-old boy who was walking home from school last year, according to an indictm...

  Ouray County commissioners want the U.S. Forest Service to station more rangers to patrol the high country and prevent damage caused by visitors, among other requests made in a letter to the agency ...

  Ouray city residents should have new bear-proof trash containers to roll down their driveways in the coming days, if they don't have them already. And this time, Waste Management says, the container...

  A western Colorado man will pay $10,000 in fines and could lose his hunting and fishing privileges in Colorado and 47 other states for illegally killing big game over the last several years, accordi...

  With over 35 years of law enforcement behind him – and nearly 20 of those years in Ouray - Ted Wolfe is willing to serve his community as long as he is needed. The new Ouray County undersheriff is a...