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 ...

  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...

  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...

  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...

Park Nursery and Garden Center is blooming again. After a short, dormant period, Ridgway's resident garden center is filled with flowers, with trailing vines and blooms spilling from the hanging baske...

WESTERN COLORADO Delta-Montrose Electric Association will withdraw its membership in Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association next year, concluding a protracted, contentious legal battle that...

Ouray business owner and Realtor Mike Feeser will fill the vacancy on the Ouray School Board, created when Board Secretary Bryan Williams resigned last month. The board held a special board meeting Ju...