WESTERN COLORADO On a late-August Sunday afternoon, state Rep. Meg Froelich readied the meeting room at the Sheridan Library for a town hall with constituents. There was one item on the agenda: a rece...

  Months after Ouray city councilors agreed to require an application and licensing process for vacation rentals, very few people are complying with the rules. With the city’s Oct. 20 application dead...

  The destruction can come at the hand of Mother Nature through heavy snowload and avalanche debris, especially this past winter and spring. It can be human-triggered, by campers and vandals who aren’...

  “How’s the fishing?” That’s a question Eric Gardunio has endured for years up here at Crystal Reservoir. This time, it’s an angler from New Mexico passing through on vacation who spotted the Colora...

  It took a while to get it rolling. But there will be a 55th year of the Ouray Jeep Raffle. The Ouray Tourism Office received the final clearance it needed from the Colorado Secretary of State's Offi...

Ridgway town councilors are considering a new outdoor lighting ordinance – one that would incorporate rules aligning with International Dark Sky Association standards to help the town obtain certifica...

By Carolina Brown & Erin McIntyre Ten-year-old Jack Jaime can ride his bike to the baseball field near his house in Ridgway. But there’s no point, really, since it’s a field of crunchy weeds. Though t...

SILVERTON - Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., made a stop in Silverton on Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 4, and promised to pressure the Forest Service and BLM to devote more resources to the increasingly popul...

  Bears seeking food to fatten up for winter targeted a Ouray restaurant early Wednesday, destroying a freezer and scattering debris through the alley. The standing freezer, located behind The Goods r...

  One of the candidates for the Ridgway School Board election has bowed out of the race, voicing his support for two other candidates. Nate Wick said he decided to discontinue his campaign after two o...

  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...