When Colorado legalized marijuana, it became a pioneer in creating new policies to deal with the drug. Now the state’s surgeons, nurses and anesthesiologists are becoming pioneers of a different sort ...

TOWN OF RIDGWAY A free concert at United Church of the San Juans in Ridgway features a well-known local soprano as well as ice cream sundaes. Allyson Connally Cotham, the church's choir director, will...

TOWN OF RIDGWAY Artists from around the country will descend on Ridgway this weekend for a festival that blends quality with accessibility. Now in its 35th year, the Ridgway Rendezvous arts and crafts...

The Ouray Hot Springs Pool hosted more than 400 young swimmers from around the state last weekend for the Colorado Summer Club Championships, and among them were four members of the local Screaming E...

Ouray County Sheriff Lance FitzGerald discovered shortly after promoting Richard Herman that his new undersheriff was under investigation for alleged sex crimes in Montrose, but the county didn’t plac...

  A longtime Ouray County sheriff’s deputy who had been promoted to undersheriff is accused of soliciting sex from a 15-year-old boy who was walking home from school last year, according to an indictm...

  A week before he died, Dave Calhoon was doing one of the things he loved best — letting public officials know where he stood on Ouray County issues. He had served as county commissioner himself for ...

SILVERTON - Voters in Lake City on July 22 rejected a ballot measure that would have banned off-highway vehicles from the town's streets. Town officials report the vote was 119 in favor of the propose...

Ouray County’s new health department director will split her time with San Miguel County, in an agreement where the two governments will share costs to employ Rosalind Penney, who will start her job a...

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...

  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 ...