Ouray County commissioners hope to hire a county manager in the next six months by using a similar process the city of Ouray used to hire its city administrator. The first step, they decided at a work...

Editor's note: This story has been corrected to correctly attribute comments about property taxation made by Gold Mountain Ranch Operations Manager Keller Herrin. ____________ A proposed guest ranch w...

For more than a year, Ouray’s search for a police officer proved fruitless, yielding only the same copy-and-paste monthly update to the City Council — the police department was still seeking a full-ti...

AURORA, Colo. — Before this, she had never been away from her daughter for more than a week. Aurora Yadira Mireles Terrazas has spent the past two months struggling to stomach meals or get any real sl...

The Ouray City Council signed off Monday night on the purchase of a two-story building across the street from City Hall, with the intent of converting it into a police station and temporary employee h...

An architect unveiled Monday night three potential concepts for the design of the exterior of a new bathhouse at the Ouray Hot Springs Pool, giving the public a glimpse of what the entrance to the poo...

Some might call Pat Willits a matchmaker. Willits, the Trust for Land Restoration executive director, has come up with a plan to get Ouray County the property under two of the four historic Idarado ho...

The Ouray County Plaindealer earned 11 awards last weekend from the regional, four-state Society of Professional Journalists' Top of the Rockies competition for the newspaper's work in 2024. The conte...

Outrage over wintertime wheeled access on public county roads is resurging as Ouray County residents scorn new requests from private landowners to plow public roads and argue the county’s snow-protect...

Ouray County commissioners are debating whether to offer planning commissioners a stipend after about a month of struggling to recruit replacements for four openings on the commission. Four planning c...

The areas where Ridgway School District students gather to socialize, eat, study and host musical and theatrical performances will receive roughly $1 million of improvements this summer. Work at Ridgw...

The 7th Judicial District, which includes Ouray County, will receive a sixth district court judge next year, after Gov. Jared Polis signed a Senate spending bill into law last week. The bill adds 15 d...

Ouray County Commissioner Lynn Padgett is asking the county to pay nearly $11,000 for the attorney she hired after the county road and bridge superintendent filed a harassment complaint against her la...

Ouray County commissioners spent six hours debating two new policies – specifying how they should treat each other and the public – in meetings last week and this week that devolved into the type of c...

When Jerry Hellman wants to read a book, he buys one — he’d rather read it on his own time than have to rush to return it to the Ouray Public Library. His wife, Bonnie, though, is a loyal library patr...

Ouray County leaders sent a letter to the U.S. Forest Service arguing the agency violated the National Environmental Policy Act when it partially drained Crystal Reservoir and proposed permanently rem...

Ouray County commissioners refused a Ridgway property owner's request for a tax refund and asked him to leave the room for disorderly conduct during a meeting Tuesday. Brent Kimball lives in the 127-y...