Ballots for the primary election and the sheriff recall election here in Ouray County are being mailed to registered voters this week. Voters here in Ouray County will receive two separate ballots — a...

Editor’s note: The Plaindealer asked several questions of the two candidates running for sheriff in the June 30 recall election: Republican Ted Wolfe and unaffiliated Justin Perry. Their responses wer...

Justin Perry sits alone at a picnic table, scrolling through his phone, mask around his neck. Campaign literature and yard signs are spread out next to him, untouched. On this mild spring day, when n...

Jordan Leo and Meg Kienapfel watched as protests erupted around the country, filling their social media feeds with outrage over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The 21-year-old students, who...

Their assignment came in the first week of April: head to Ouray to help the county with logistics and planning in response to the coronavirus pandemic. There were few specifics in place when Army Nati...

The war of words between Ouray Mayor Greg Nelson and the Ouray Chamber Resort Association escalated Monday when a chamber board member called on the mayor to resign and Nelson openly questioned how th...

GUNNISON A federal judge has dismissed the Gunnison County Sheriff’s Office as a defendant in a lawsuit brought by an elderly woman alleging use of excessive force. However, according to the attorney ...

They came in Fords with green and white streamers tied to the door handles, in Dodges strung with flowers like entrants in the Rose Parade, in Jeeps festooned with gold foil balloon letters that spel...

When students return to school this fall, they could undergo temperature checks at doors, attend on staggered schedules, and shift back and forth between in-school and online learning, under plans bei...

Two more candidates have filed paperwork to officially enter the county commissioners’ races – and one will oppose incumbent John Peters and the other will challenge Democrat Jake Niece for term-limit...

A Ridgway man who was registered as a convicted sex offender in Ouray County has been arrested for alleged sexual exploitation of a child. Richard “Butch” Karl, 66, was arrested Monday after the Ouray...

As he walks through Ouray Brewery, owner Erin Eddy watches as customers touch countertops or grab the hand railings on the stairs. He notices when a bartender touches her face, or when someone adjusts...

Pool operators are asking Ouray County to pursue a variance to allow more swimmers than a statewide limitation, to make opening more financially viable now that the state is allowing them to reopen. T...

I’ve found myself doing things I never because of this pandemic. At first it was mostly about isolation and sanitation. I washed everything to the point where my hands, left cracked and stinging, star...

Several weeks before the city of Ouray severed ties with its longtime marketing contractor, Mayor Greg Nelson asked professional photographer and social media manager Markus Van Meter to submit a prop...

Ouray County Commissioner John Peters has announced he is running for re-election this year with a goal of helping the county’s economy recover from the blow of recent closures. Peters said he thought...

The Ridgway Visitor Center will remain closed for the rest of the year, with operators citing concerns about the health and •ƒˆ‡›‘ˆ‘Ž‡‡•™Š‘•ƒsafety of volunteers who staff the facility. The board of ...

Whatever the “real world” is, Ouray School’s Class of 2020 started blazing its own way into it on Sunday during graduation. The 13 members of the graduating class faced making their own way of celebr...

Colorado’s restaurants will be allowed to reopen at 50 percent capacity for in-person dining, with specific protocols, beginning this week This will be the first time they’ve been allowed to serve cus...

GUNNISON It’s still too early for Western Colorado University officials to determine the exact amount of financial loss caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but leaders are making efforts to cushion some ...