Ouray residents made it clear: They’re ready for something different when it comes to the City Council. Voters on Tuesday picked retired engineer and relative newcomer Greg Nelson for mayor over lon...

CITY OF OURAY It won’t come with the pain that accompanied this year’s major rate increase, but Ouray residents likely will pay more on their city utility bills next year. The Ouray City Council on Mo...

  The town of Ridgway and Tri-County Water Conservancy District would be able to access each other’s domestic water supply in the event of an emergency, under an agreement approved by the town last we...

  Voters who live in and around the City of Ouray will decide on a ballot measure concerning the Cedar Hill Cemetery District next week, which would allow the district to keep taxes already collected ...

SILVERTON - EPA officials say they are continuing to monitor the Silver Wing Mine following an apparent surge in flow on Oct. 9-10 that raised concerns as the Animas River above Eureka was discolored....

  The County Planning Commission approved the culmination of the work they have put in over the 18 months on updates to Section 16 of the Land Use Code, which regulates wildfire mitigation of homes an...

  A storage unit expansion remains in limbo as commissioners pass the ball back to the joint planning committee, who recommended the Board of County Commissioners deny a special use permit for further...

  An agonized and torn Ouray City Council approved a major expansion of the Twin Peaks Lodge & Hot Springs on Tuesday, looking past a host of objections raised by citizens and concluding there are eno...

By Carolina Brown and Erin McIntyre Ouray School District is "in need of a culture shift" and school board members will be working with administration and staff to help create a better working environ...

  Commissioners gave Road Foreman Chad Rilling permission to remove speed bumps installed earlier this year on sections of County Road 24 on Tuesday after he told them the situation created by the dev...

  Fewer than a quarter of Ouray County voters had cast their ballots as of Tuesday. But as has seemingly become customary in recent years, elections officials expect a rush of ballots in the days lead...

  Ouray County voters will decide next week whether to fund roads maintenance and a plan to improve routes across the county for the coming decades. The countywide ballot measure, which asks voters to...

  Four finalists for the Ridgway town administrator position will visit next week, and members of the public are invited to meet them. The finalists are: • Dan Chandler, the current assistant county a...

OURAY COUNTY More than 1,000 railfans from across the nation and Europe visited Ridgway on Oct. 12 and 13 to ride and learn about five historically significant railroad motor cars, commonly referred t...

OURAY COUNTY Former Ouray County Undersheriff Richard Herman has pleaded not guilty to charges alleging he solicited sex from a teenage boy and is scheduled for a three-day jury trial in April. Herman...

CITY OF OURAY Ouray mayoral candidate Greg Nelson is the only one of the seven candidates for City Council who has received donations thus far, and he and fellow mayoral candidate and current Mayor Pr...

In a profile of Ridgway School Board candidate John Countryman published in the Oct. 17 edition of the Plaindealer, a formatting error resulted in the number of years he’s resided in Ouray County bein...

OURAY SCHOOLS Editor's note: The Plaindealer invited candidates for the local school board races to introduce themselves. In the Oct. 17 edition we featured Ridgway School Board candidates. This week...