Ouray city leaders moved swiftly this week to ban all personal fireworks in the city, days after homes near Lee’s Ski Hill were shot with a barrage of pyrotechnics on Sunday night that ignited multipl...

Five new affordable rental units are coming to the city of Ouray, as the Home Trust of Ouray County will close next month on its second affordable housing acquisition. The property at 835 Second St. i...

The trial of one of three men accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl inside the home of the former Ouray police chief has been delayed. Nate Dieffenderffer, 20, was scheduled to stand trial...

Ouray city councilors are much happier with revised plans for a permanent stage in Fellin Park. Now the challenge is finding money to pay for it. Councilors on Monday looked at two scenarios that drop...

San Miguel Power Association is postponing work to replace power poles and more in the city of Ouray until late August because of delays in getting supplies. The company rescheduled the dates earlier ...

Ouray city leaders want to encourage turnover of parking spaces on Main Street and utilize more parking on side streets, while creating more enforceable parking rules. Those were just some of the prio...

After years of work, Ouray County has refreshed its emergency readiness capabilities by updating three disaster mitigation plans and adopting an official evacuation plan, all in an effort to prepare t...

If an emergency happens in Ouray County and evacuation is required, one of the best things you can do is sign up for emergency alerts ahead of time so you're prepared to receive notifications. It's im...

Ouray’s police force will have help keeping crowds under control on the Fourth of July. The Ouray City Council on Monday approved spending about $15,000 to hire Citadel Security Group to provide secur...

At a workshop meeting on Monday, Ouray city councilors directed City Attorney Carol Viner to create an ordinance limiting traffic on the Uncompahgre River Walk to pedestrians, citing concerns about th...

A Ridgway man was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly confronted staff at a Ouray motel with a high-powered pellet gun. Luis Garcia-Castro, 20, was booked into the Montrose County Jail on suspicion of...

The city of Ouray has endorsed a plan to consolidate the county’s emergency services into one county-wide authority through an intergovernmental agreement, after hearing details at a council workshop ...

The Mesa County Sheriff’s Office said Monday that it had shared information leading to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest of a Utah college student, which unintentionally violated a state l...

Colorado Senate Republicans unanimously chose Sen. Cleave Simpson as their new minority leader last week. Simpson, an Alamosa Republican who was first elected in 2020, will replace former Sen. Paul Lu...

The city of Ouray will offer a free daily shuttle to get locals and visitors around town starting June 30. Councilors at their meeting Monday said they hope the shuttle will help alleviate summer traf...

Police are searching for suspects who shot a barrage of fireworks onto homes on Sunday night, sparking fires in the southern part of Ouray. The explosions startled residents just after 9 p.m., with fi...

Artist Yulia Avgustinovich works on the mural she was commissioned to paint on the southeast side of the Space to Create building in Ridgway on Monday. Avgustinovich, who has been a professional mural...

A judge has sentenced a Ridgway man to three years in prison for sexually assaulting a 28-year-old woman in 2023 after he claimed he was drunk and thought she was his wife. Brian Scranton, 49, hugged ...

The cost of repairing County Road 361 and a retaining wall following a large rockfall is nearing $300,000, a sum Ouray County is paying in full. When commissioners declared the event an emergency in F...

Closures of beloved hiking and off-highway vehicle trails in and around Ouray County this summer could congest and pressure other areas. The popular Blue Lakes trailhead is closed through August due t...