SILVERTON -It's now possible to drive the Alpine Loop from Silverton to Lake City and back, but motorists will have to take the long way, over Hurricane Pass and down California Gulch to get to Animas...

WESTERN COLORADO Locals can stock their personal firewood piles for free if they use a permit to harvest downed Ponderosa pine in certain areas of the Uncompahgre Plateau. The Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre ...

  The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission voted to expand its Public Access Program by 100,000 acres in time for the fall hunting season, at the commission’s meeting last week in Telluride. The exp...

  Frustrated Ouray city officials want to see better communication and service from Waste Management following what they considered a subpar trash pickup day earlier this month. City leaders fielded s...

  The Board of County Commissioners heard more complaints about speeding on County Road 24 from residents at their meeting on Tuesday. This time the focus was primarily on dust from speeding vehicles,...

July 8 Officer took custody of a found credit card that was turned into the Police Department. Officer conducted two VIN checks at the Police Department. Officer responded to the 800 block of Main Str...

OURAY COUNTY There’s a new company managing the waste transfer station for Ouray County, and those who use the station may notice slightly lower fees and expanded services. At the request of the forme...

CITY OF OURAY The Ouray City Council is pushing ahead with a plan to ask voters this fall to approve a tax to help fund affordable housing, even as some citizens are urging it to slow down. Councilors...

San Miguel Power Association has paid $1.275 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging the power company bore responsibility for a wildfire that burned thousands of acres near Norwood in 2010. The ...

The Colorado State Patrol is looking for witnesses to an accident near mile-marker 88 on U.S. Highway 550 on July 14. The accident involved a 2005 Dodge SUV from Grand Junction, according to Trooper J...

Editor’s note: This is the second story in an occasional series of articles about affordable housing issues in Ouray County. The first story ran in the June 20-26 edition. When Scott Pankow hires a ne...

A speed tracker captured speeds of up to 55 miles per hour on pothole- and washboard-riddled County Road 24 and its subsections, prompting Ouray County Road and Bridge Supervisor Steven Calkins to try...

WESTERN COLORADO Rising reservoir water levels at Ridgway State Park have prompted officials to close the the shoreline vehicle access on the south side of the reservoir at Dallas Creek until further ...

After years of discussion and work, Ouray County commissioners decided to postpone further regulation of non-commercial camping, citing inconsistencies. Commissioners reconsidered the drafted ordinanc...

WESTERN COLORADO San Miguel Power Association has joined a chorus of rural electric cooperatives asking Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association to slow down its pursuit of being regulated by...

The Ouray Trail Group partnered with the U.S. Forest Service and local outfitter Action Adventures last weekend to do some much needed-maintenance on four popular trails in the Uncompahgre Wilderness ...

With the deadline of July 26 to file a letter of intent for the 2019 ballot fast approaching, the Board of County Commissioners and county staff worked to finalize a survey to gauge citizen opinion ab...

CITY OF OURAY The Ouray Hot Springs will be hosting a statewide swim meet and will close to the public during the competition, Aug. 2-4. This is the first time Ouray has hosted the Colorado Seasonal S...

  The Ridgway Town Council has agreed to back away a bit from its strict ban on plastic bags, voting last week to exempt locking, Ziploc-type bags up to a quart in size. Councilors unanimously agreed ...

OURAY SCHOOLS The Ouray School District is asking the community to assist with building the new playground, which will be open to the public outside school hours and for community use. The Community C...