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...

San Miguel Power Association will continue to purchase power from Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association for the next 25 years under a revised contract that gives it the ability to generate...

An article published on Page 1 of the June 5 edition of the Plaindealer reported the West Region Wildfire Council did not receive any private donations in 2023, based on the nonprofit's publicly avail...

A judge sentenced a Ridgway man to three years in prison Thursday 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, hu...

She spent three months carefully itemizing everything they lost in the fire, trying to remember what was in kitchen drawers and closets. Every piece of silverware, furniture, clothing, appliances and ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect that the West Region Wildfire Council received $7,184.63 donations from individuals in 2023. The Plaindealer received this information from the no...

The Ouray City Council postponed approving a series of deed restrictions for the Swiss Village Mobile Home Park on Monday after residents who are on the cusp of buying the property objected, saying th...