Voters decisively ousted Sheriff Lance FitzGerald in the county's first recall election, after a bipartisan effort to remove him from office succeeded a nd he was unseated in a landslide. Unofficial e...

UPDATE as of 9:58 p.m. Ouray County Sheriff Lance FitzGerald has been ousted in a landslide – with 93 percent of voters opting to vote him out of office. Preliminary results show 2,527 votes in favor ...

The Board of County Commissioners approved a county-wide stage one fire ban starting Thursday, preventing the use of fireworks over the July 4 weekend.  Commissioner Ben Tisdel requested the board dis...

Some Ouray County employers have asked workers to get coronavirus antibody tests in order to return to work, against the advice of medical experts who question the tests’ value and accuracy. In the la...

Colorado is rolling out a new ad campaign to encourage visitors to socially distance and wear masks if they decide to vacation here, asking tourists to be responsible. Gov. Jared Polis debuted the edu...

Police say a recent Ouray High School graduate was fortunate to escape with no injuries after her car plunged off a hill on County Road 361 last weekend. Tristyn Guzman, 18, who graduated in May, craw...

Ouray city councilors have repeatedly said they want to re-examine how money is spent to market the city to tourists. Now they’re creating a committee to help them do just that. The city is accepting ...

After nearly five hours of contentious public hearings, comments and deliberation, Ouray County commissioners agreed Tuesday to allow a marijuana grow operation to expand on Log Hill Mesa. During the ...

GUNNISON One of the key issues hotly debated in the 2018 Gunnison County Sheriff's election continues to plague the department - that of turnover. And the question posed then remains unanswered today ...

The Ouray City Council has granted a special noise permit to the owners of Goldbelt Bar and Grill that will allow them to have live music on select dates this summer. Councilors unanimously approved t...

Colorado is bracing for a long, hot summer and more than 80 percent of the state is already in abnormally dry to drought conditions, according to information from the state climatologist’s office this...

The Ouray Hot Springs Pool reopened Monday with limited guests and facilities, more than three months after closing. Instead of the hundreds of people who would typically visit on a warm June day, th...

The candidates seeking to replace Sheriff Lance FitzGerald have raised three times as much in campaign contributions as the race in which he was elected in 2018. Together, the candidates hoping to uns...

Local governments across Colorado saw their sales tax revenue crater in June in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in Ouray County the results were decidedly mixed. The city of Ouray reported a 27...

Ouray County has submitted a request to the state to allow pools to admit 200 people or 75 percent of capacity. County commissioners, acting as the Board of Health, approved the variance request to be...

One by one, masked congregants walked up to a small altar at the United Church of the San Juans, weaving carefully between sets of chairs arranged 6 feet apart. They each selected a plate holding a Co...

Editor's Note: To watch a video about the Ouray and Ridgway protests, click here.   For the second time in as many weeks, locals gathered to join national calls for police reform and justice for Geor...

Ted Wolfe and Justin Perry, the candidates seeking to replace Ouray County Sheriff Lance FitzGerald in a June 3o recall election, offered differing answers to questions posed during a June 11 forum. H...

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...

A 50-year-old woman who lives in Ouray County and works in a neighboring county is the latest confirmed local case of COVID-19. Ouray County Public Health Department Director Tanner Kingery said he re...