A first look at Ouray County’s preliminary 2025 budget shows a projected $3.15 million spending increase from the 2024 approved budget, nearly double the increase seen from 2023 to 2024. This first-dr...

OURAY POLICE The following is an excerpt of cases handled by the Ouray Police Department from Sept. 2530: Sept. 25 Officer took a report of lost property at the Police Department. Officer discovered a...

A story on Page 8 of the Sept. 26-Oct. 2 edition about the Sept. 24 master plan joint work session between Ouray County commissioners and the Planning Commission incorrectly indicated that Planning Co...

Since opening The Vault in Ouray in 2017, Sally Jo Ocasio has moved her vintage clothing and goods store four times. She survived a fire that wiped out her storefront at one location and dodged a 25% ...

Seventh Judicial District Attorney Seth Ryan announced on Monday he's resigning from his position effective Oct. 31, days before he would have won re-election. The Republican incumbent was running uno...

Editor’s note: This story is about an alleged sexual assault case. If you or anyone else needs assistance with sexual assault resources, please call either the National Domestic Violence Center 24/7 h...

The developer of the Divide Ranch & Club on Log Hill Mesa will have another five years to build out a maximum of 150 homes planned for the subdivision. After hours of debate Tuesday, Ouray County comm...

Editor's note: This story has been corrected to reflect the fact that planning commission member Andrea Sokolowski did not attend the joint work session in person, but attended it remotely on Zoom for...

Gov. Jared Polis has committed $4.9 million in state funding to help pay for repairs to public infrastructure in Ouray County that was damaged by monsoonal flooding last month. Ouray County Emergency ...

The city of Ouray remains on track for another record-breaking year for salestax collections. The city pulled in $505,406 in taxes from sales made in July, about $3,000 less than July 2023. That numbe...

District Attorney Seth Ryan has announced he's resigning from his position, effective Oct. 31. The Republican incumbent was running, unopposed, for his second term in office, and was on the ballot for...

This unusually colored fawn pictured here with its twin is called a piebald deer, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife terrestrial biologist Alyssa Kircher. The white pattern is a result of a gene...

The Ouray City Council unanimously agreed Monday to donate $100,000 toward an affordable housing project on Oak Street, boosting the chances it will break ground next spring. The money will go to the ...

Ouray County commissioners are considering a proposal from the road and bridge superintendent for a gravel crushing operation across from the Whispering Pines subdivision that could create around a mo...

The Ridgway Town Council has rejected a request from a Wetterhorn affordable housing project homeowner to sell her home for more than the allowed sale price. This is the latest in a series of firsts f...

The Ridgway Town Council gave a thumbs up for the Green Street Sustainability Park's revised design last week, bringing months of public input and deliberation to a close. The lightning rod that attra...

Ouray County will extend a three-year agreement for the new owners of the Camp Bird and Revenue-Virginius silver mines to plow Camp Bird Road to access the property in the winter and grant a sub-agree...

Ridgway has extended its emergency disaster order for another month as it continues to assess the damage and possible solutions for the town's washed-out diversion feeding its main water supply. Flood...

The Ridgway Fire Protection District is debating how to involve stakeholders in a potential county-wide fire and emergency services consolidation effort, now that they’ve hired legal support. The dist...

The glass orbs look like a cross between a snow globe and the top of a wizard’s scepter. For years they sat in an attic at the Ouray County Museum, forgotten to history and their place in it. It took ...