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...

OURAY COUNTY The Ouray County Planning Commission is showing the documentary film “The Era of Megafires” at three locations across the county in the coming days as outreach to generate public support ...

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...

  A storage unit business that expanded without approval shouldn’t receive a special use permit, according to a joint planning organization from Ridgway and Ouray. The Ridgway Area Joint Planning Boar...

Max Schuetz was planning on coming to the fair, but not like this. He spent the last few months training a wild mustang, brought from a roundup on public lands in Nevada. He worked with the mare every...

  The Ouray County undersheriff has been indicted by a grand jury on two counts alleging he committed two crimes – criminal attempt to commit inducement of child prostitution and child abuse. Richard ...

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...