The town of Ridgway is opening up a competitive process for its tourism and marketing services after years of handing the task to the Ridgway Area Chamber of Commerce. The shift toward a competitive p...

The Ouray County Plaindealer took home 14 awards at the Colorado Press Association convention last weekend. The annual Better Newspaper Contest, which covered work published during the 2024 calendar y...

Ouray City Administrator Michelle Metteer received high marks on her first job performance review and will secure a 6% pay raise early next year. City councilors unanimously agreed Monday night to ame...

Ouray County commissioners finished drafting a buzzer beater ballot measure to ask voters to approve a new county lodging tax on Tuesday. Commissioners are expected to vote next week on whether to pla...

The Colorado State Patrol has announced it will be holding a DUI checkpoint here in Ouray County this weekend, as part of an effort to ensure road safety. The State Patrol's Statewide DUI Task Force w...

Ouray County Commissioner Lynn Padgett voted against a mid-year budget amendment created to pay for more than $300,000 in rockfall repairs to County Road 361. During a Tuesday commissioners’ meeting s...

Zoe Denison has a front row seat to the perils of traveling on U.S. Highway 550. Drivers have crashed through the wildlife fence separating the highway from her home between Billy Creek State Wildlife...

When Ouray's new wastewater treatment plant is working, no one seems to notice. The electrical panels, motors, pumps and other equipment inside the nondescript, earth-toned building at the northern en...

Ouray County commissioners are considering a ballot measure this fall to levy a new lodging tax in the unincorporated county to help pay for public safety, housing and child care initiatives and progr...

All three local governments in Ouray County ramped up to stage 2 fire restrictions this week, as multiple wildfires burn across the Western Slope and the San Juans continue to wither under a hot, dry ...

Ouray County may help Dallas Meadows residents pay to kill adult mosquitos swarming the area since some preventative treatments were skipped earlier this spring. Leaders from Ouray County, the town of...

At least one person has been detained during immigration enforcement operations recently in Ouray, according to an eyewitness who saw the arrest last week. A man driving a white GMC was stopped by thr...

Federal immigration officials detained at least one person in Ouray this morning, according to eyewitness reports which have been confirmed by the Ouray County Sheriff's Office. According to an eyewit...

Kricket Olin pulled the side-by-side ATV over to a cluster of off-highway vehicles and leaned over the door, sticking her head in the neon helmet out the window. “Hi I’m Kricket, an alpine ranger with...

Interim Ouray Police Chief Daric Harvey will be given the first crack at the permanent police chief position through an internal interview process arranged by City Administrator Michelle Metteer. Mett...

Ouray residents who are thinking about running for one of the three open seats on the city council this fall can now pick up and begin circulating nomination petitions. The two-year term for Mayor Eth...

Ridgway schools are now cellphone free. The Ridgway School District, like many school districts in the state, including Ouray, is restricting students from using cellphones during school hours startin...

The Ouray Public Library will get its rooftop deck — and at its preferred location. The Ouray City Council voted Monday night to amend the library’s lease with the city to allow it to build a 670-squa...

The Ridgway Public Library is the first entity in Ouray County to adopt a policy focused on protecting immigrant patrons, students and employees. A new law requires all public child care centers, scho...