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...

COPS If you have information on any of the below active cases or of any other incident that you have information on or feel needs reporting, call 970-626-5196. This is a summary of cases handled from ...

  The Ouray County Giving Girls club is hoping to grant another local nonprofit organization with donations at its second meeting, scheduled for Tuesday night. Women of any age who would like to bring...

By Carolina Brown and Erin McIntyre Ouray County commissioners are considering a sunset clause in the proposed roads tax question, but have less than a week to make a decision and meet the ballot dead...

  Voters will have ample choice when it comes to filling three seats on the Ouray City Council this fall. All nine people who took out nomination petitions returned them by Monday's deadline, and all ...

  Former Ouray County Undersheriff Richard Herman has been ordered not to interact with children age 18 and younger, including a teenage boy who told law enforcement he was solicited for sex by Herman...

  An increasingly anxious but divided Ouray City Council may soon pull funding for the Ouray Tourism Office if revenues don’t begin to catch up with expenses. Through the end of July, the city’s touri...

  It’s just time for something new. That’s essentially what Jen Coates said after tending her resignation to the Ridgway Town Council this week, in a letter explaining after almost 14 years, it’s time...

  Glenn Boyd has had his sights set on being Ouray mayor for four years. But with Pam Larson occupying that post, he has been content to bide his time as mayor pro tem and learn under someone he consi...

WESTERN COLORADO A western Colorado business that offers coworking spaces and helps other such businesses manage their operations has received one of the first so-called opportunity zone business inve...

  Ouray County will stick with the original route it planned for building fiber internet, despite requests from Delta-Montrose Electric Association to construct a route that would benefit the internet...

  The Ridgway School Board nominated and swore in a new member to fill the vacancy created with the departure of member Cindy Lystad, who now serves as interim Secondary School principal. After interv...

  Four separate accidents on area mountain roads and trails that have killed two people in the past week have first responders asking those who enjoy driving in the mountains to be cautious. One of t...

COLORADO Chad Stewart, who has worked on public lands for 26 years in the West, has been named the new forest supervisor for the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests. Stewart, who pre...

An article in the Aug. 15 edition of the Plaindealer stated the Western Colorado Community Foundation awards more than $3.4 million annually to nonprofits in communities on the Western Slope. The Oura...

SILVERTON - A 56-year-old Lafayette woman died late Monday night, Aug. 12, after a tree fell on the tent she and two other women were sleeping in along the Colorado Trail on upper Cascade Creek. "It i...