By Mary Menz, Special to the Plaindealer April showers bring May flowers to many places, but abundant snowpack and regular rain make the wildflowers in Ouray County’s high elevations burst in a profu...

Just weeks before the beginning of school, Ridgway School District Facility and Transportation Director Shane Ayer resigned from his position but appears to have changed his mind after submitting that...

  The owners of a storage unit business between Ridgway and Ouray will get another chance to make their case for expansion to county commissioners. Red Cliff Storage owner Lynn Emery Olin has until Oc...

WESTERN COLORADO U.S. Forest Service and Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials are again warning campers of bear activity on the Western Slope, this time in campgrounds on Grand Mesa southeast of Gran...

COLORADO Colorado Parks and Wildlife is offering all active-duty military and veterans free entrance to all 41 Colorado state parks during the entire month of August, including Ridgway State Park. Fre...

  If Dawn Glanc has her way, hikers enjoying Mother Nature along the city’s Perimeter Trail will have more places to answer when nature calls. The Ouray city councilor is pushing for the installation ...

A popular, long-established restaurant along the main drag through Ridgway will close next week, and plans are already in the works to fill the space. An employee of Oriental Chinese Restaurant, 565 S...

OURAY COUNTY Ouray County residents who attended a town hall meeting on proposed wildfire mitigation rules were receptive to those regulations. The meeting on Aug. 6 included a presentation on wildfir...

OURAY COUNTY Chase Nicholson of Ouray caught 571 smallmouth bass and won the top prize of $5,000 for the most fish caught in the Colorado Parks and Wildlife tournament at Ridgway Reservoir. Anglers wh...

  Ouray County’s rural population will be harder to count in next year’s Census than areas with home mail delivery, U.S. Census Bureau representatives said last week in a planning meeting. During the ...

Ouray County DirecTV customers will be able to watch their favorite CBS shows again starting today, as an agreement between the network and the cable provider reached early Thursday ends a blackout of...

Forest and wildlife officials are alerting the public to increased black bear activity in and around Blue Lakes in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness they say is caused by campers improperly storing and di...

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...

  The Ouray City Council is backing away from a proposal to ask voters in November to tax the owners of short-term rental units, deciding instead to direct staff to gather more information about a ran...

  A debilitating, highly contagious viral disease affecting horses, cows and pigs has been detected in Ouray County. Earlier this week, the first case of vesicular stomatitis was confirmed in Ouray Co...

  Local DirecTV customers may have noticed a gaping hole in their available channels lately - namely the loss of the Denver CBS affiliate station KCNC, which went dark last month. Fans of shows includ...

  A goose is attacking a duck. It was one of the first calls for service Justin Perry received as a Montrose patrol officer fresh out of the police academy. And it frustrated him. Why were police bei...

WESTERN COLORADO Crews have finished reconstruction of a section of Colorado Highway 145 between Telluride and Cortez that was destroyed by a massive rockslide in May. The $1.2 million project, which ...