Ouray County voters will have a roads-funding question to consider on the ballot in November, which includes a sunset provision ending one part of the funding in 25 years. The question asks voters t...

  The search for Ouray’s next police chief has narrowed to four candidates, and the community will have the chance to meet them later this month. Ouray Police Officer Bernie Chism; Douglas Ford, the c...

  Members of a local sex-assault prevention group confronted Ouray County officials on Tuesday, citing concerns with the recent indictment of the former undersheriff on alleged sex crimes and demandin...

  When Andrea Sokolowski moved to Ridgway in 2014, she noticed a pattern. Everyone was talking about how hard it was to find housing. Five years later, people are still talking about it. Local social ...

  The city of Ouray is in violation of its wastewater operations permit with the state of Colorado, underscoring the reasons behind the city’s push to build a new treatment plant. The Colorado Departm...

  Ouray’s tourism fund rebounded enough last month to convince the City Council to give funding in September for the Ouray Tourism Office, but the fund remains in the red. Preliminary numbers gathered...

  An elderly Nucla man remains hospitalized this week after he drove his car over a cliff on Colorado Highway 141, crashed into the San Miguel River and was found days later by his grandson. Robert Mc...

A 7th Judicial District public defense attorney will discuss the challenges of the cash-bail system and the disadvantages it presents for low-income people who get arrested, in a talk sponsored by the...

  Everyone knew about the pact. When Adobe Inn kitchen manager John Pizzarusso grew tired of coming in each afternoon to make the restaurant’s famous chips and salsa and tomal en elote — corn cassero...

WESTERN COLORADO A forest ranger from New Mexico will be the new temporary deputy forest supervisor for the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests. GMUG officials announced this week th...

  The Ouray County Planning Commission is recommending a change in zoning for the old Colona store building and a nearby house, at the request of the Oberg family. The once-popular gas station and liq...

  The impetus for Peggy Lindsey to sit up and pay close attention to city hall was losing her tenant in the Whispering Pines subdivision to the overwhelming odors of the city’s overtaxed sewer lagoons...

SILVERTON - With bears frequently roaming into Silverton at night in search of snacks, town officials are warning residents and guests to be "bear aware," and to fortify their trash cans and remove bi...

  Ouray’s popular, highly anticipated Jeep raffle will extend into December, a setback the Ouray Tourism Office hopes to offset with a flurry of online ticket sales this fall. With the OTO still waiti...

  Lunchtime recess on Friday was a bit more exciting at Ouray School than it has been lately. The students had the chance to try out their new playground, a project the community helped build. They j...

  Ridgway town councilors began the process of selecting a new town administrator, after Jen Coates resigned last month. Coates has agreed to stay in her position through the budgeting process, roughl...

  Bears took advantage of a blogger who left food in her open-topped Jeep last week at the KOA campground in Ouray, destroying the interior of the Jeep as they rummaged for good-smelling things. Paula...

WESTERN COLORADO San Miguel Power Association Inc. is seeking applicants for a series of grants to help stimulate the local economy. The rural electric cooperative, which serves approximately 9,600 me...

  The Ouray City Council on Tuesday appointed Mountain Chill Radio co-founder Ethan Funk to fulfill the term of former Councilor Dee Hilton, selecting someone they cast as a thoughtful observer focuse...

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