GUNNISON Gunnison City Manager Russ Forrest announced his resignation on Aug. 23, to take effect sometime this fall. The decision marks both a departure and a homecoming for Forrest, as he intends to ...

Dallas Creek Water Company can enact much of the rate increase it sought earlier this year, but it cannot pursue another rate hike for two years and must be more transparent with its customers about f...

OURAY POLICE The following is an excerpt of cases handled by the Ouray Police Department from Sept. 7-13: SEPT. 7 Officers attended firearms training at the Chief Zortman Range. Officer returned a pho...

Ouray’s Rotary Park sees dozens of rock climbers every weekend, and it will soon get a new kiosk and shelter thanks to funding from the Ouray Climbers Alliance, City of Ouray, Ouray Chamber Resort Ass...

If you see a plume of dust rising behind your vehicle while cruising down a dirt road, you’re going too fast, according to Ouray County Road and Bridge Superintendent Ty Barger. Speeding on county roa...

For the first time, details about convictions, case dispositions, and other aspects of the criminal justice process in the 7th Judicial District have been made public. District Attorney Seth Ryan’s of...

A Ouray resident figured applying a healthy dose of chili powder to the lid of a trash can might deter a hungry bear last week. There was just one problem: A waste collection worker got to the trash c...

UPDATE, 3 P.M. Three people were killed this afternoon when their Jeep rolled down an embankment on County Road 361, the Colorado State Patrol confirmed. A 72-year-old man from Ouray, a 60-year-old wo...

A CenturyLink fiber line was cut during construction at the firehouse project in Ridgway Thursday, causing an outage in Ridgway, Log Hill and other parts of the county.  "Some customers in Ouray Count...

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 a.m. and every Wednesday night at 5:30 p.m. at St. Daniel’s Church, 614 Fifth St., Ouray. Every Thursday and Sunday at 7 p.m. in the sanctu...

GUNNISON The Gunnison Arts Center was one of three recipients of the Community Revitalization Grant announced Monday by Colorado Creative Industries, a division of the Colorado Office of Economic Deve...

In the first year of typical standardized testing since 2019, local students mostly outperformed the state on Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) tests, but still lagged in some areas behind ...

Kindergarteners squirmed and fidgeted on a colorful rug in the Ridgway Elementary School library Tuesday, sitting crosslegged and elbow-to-elbow as librarian Kara Young read them a story. Around the c...

A pair of eyes peers out from behind handcuffs on the Ranch Watch sign that Leslie Brown has owned for about 20 years. It reads “watched by neighbors, patrolled by deputies,” and Brown has multiple s...

Dust control to resume on county roads Ouray County road and bridge workers will continue dust control treatments on county roads, after pausing in early August due to a lack of available water needed...

A man was killed and his wife was injured when their side-by-side all-terrain vehicle rolled about 500 feet in the Imogene Basin southwest of Ouray on Monday, authorities said. Tory Coonrod, 52, of Me...

Joan Shapiro didn’t notice the swarms of gnats until Saturday night, but at that point, it was all she could take. They covered the windows, attracted to the lights shining from inside her cabin in Id...

After years of battling project delays and cost increases, Ouray city officials this week caught a major break in their effort to build a desperately needed wastewater treatment plant — a lower constr...

As they finished cross country practice on Friday afternoon, Canyon Ishikawa and Paton Edwards ran back and forth across Fellin Park, matching each other’s strides. Ishikawa, a senior at Ridgway Seco...

Brett Lambert competed in so many rodeos this summer, he lost track of the number. The team roper from Commerce City saddled up again at the Ouray County Rodeo on Monday – his third rodeo in a week –...