The city of Ouray will give $100,000 to the Home Trust of Ouray County to help it purchase a triplex and maintain it as affordable housing. City councilors unanimously approved a letter of intent on M...

Ouray County plans to purchase a new elections transparency tool that will allow people to review images of anonymous cast ballots online, so they can count them by hand and verify those votes. Ouray ...

Editor's note: This story has been corrected to reflect that the Ouray County Regional Service Authority no longer pays for the software used by the medical provider housed in the building it maintain...

Ouray County plans to contribute at least $50,000 to support the residents of Swiss Village Mobile Home Park in the $2.5 million deal to purchase the land their homes sit on. During a work session on ...

Ouray County leaders took their first stab at drafting a “leadership and governance” policy last week, but will bring it back to a second work session and create a separate policy for public meetings....

Ridgway school district hires interim principal for permanent job Ridgway Elementary School will keep Perri Gipner as principal permanently, after selecting the interim principal for the long-term pos...

County Road 361 southwest of Ouray is indefinitely closed after several large boulders tumbled onto the road last week, leading county officials to issue an emergency disaster order. County commission...

County Road 361, also known as Camp Bird Road, is indefinitely closed to both foot and vehicle traffic after a rockfall event that triggered county officials to issue an emergency disaster order. The ...

Kricket Olin didn’t check her email on Valentine’s Day morning because she wanted to go to work. She didn't want to believe it could be her last day. She spent the day riding snowmobiles to make sure ...

After a two-year revision process, Ouray County commissioners adopted the county’s updated master plan, but not without a fight. During a hearing to adopt the final version of the plan Tuesday, Commis...

Ouray County commissioners renewed Red Mountain Alpine Lodge’s special-use permits to hold weddings and operate a bed-and-breakfast for two years, in another showdown between the businesses' vocal opp...

Ridgway won't hold town council elections this year since there were not more applicants for candidates than the number of open seats. The town received three nomination petitions, from current counci...

Deputy County Manager Kara Rhoades will serve as Ouray County’s interim manager, drawing support from Connie Hunt after she leaves her job. The former administrator will be paid as a part-time contrac...

The Ouray School Board is considering a proposal to add another administrator to the payroll. Superintendent Tod Lokey presented his idea to the board at a work session last week, asking them to consi...

It wasn’t record-breaking, but the city of Ouray closed out another year of strong sales tax collections in 2024. The city pulled in just shy of $3.06 million from its 4% sales tax last year, about $3...

Penny Price curled up on a couch at the foot of a climbing wall, plotting out how she’d try and get to the top. The 8-year-old’s parents and other surrounding climbers toyed with a smartphone app that...

Ouray County commissioners either will hire an interim county manager or a consultant to help run the county when County Manager Connie Hunt leaves her position March 31. It's the first time the count...

The ranks of the Ouray Police Department, frayed by a delay in hiring a new police chief and an inability to find another police officer, appear to be on the verge of thinning further. Interim Police ...

The town of Ridgway selected an engineer to design a portion of the town’s pricey repairs to its water system, which was destroyed by record monsoonal events last summer. The goal is to finish constru...

Ridgway town councilors have decided to keep the Ridgway Area Chamber of Commerce as the town’s contracted provider for tourism marketing this year, but put chamber leaders on notice they plan to open...