Ouray County agreed Tuesday to extend an agreement to let the Ouray Silver Mine continue to maintain Camp Bird Road in the wintertime, after commissioners approved a last-minute resolution this week....

The U.S. Forest Service is accepting public comment on a plan to close 22 inactive mine openings south of Ouray this summer. The project, which is expected to take six to eight weeks to complete, will...

Ouray County has fined a Log Hill marijuana cultivation facility for an odor violation and notified the business its license to operate is on thin ice. After more than four hours of hearing testimony ...

Ouray city leaders are breathing a sigh of relief after state water quality officials decided to fine the city just $390 for not moving fast enough to build a new water treatment plant. The fine, reve...

San Miguel Power Association customers who shut off their power for extended periods of time throughout the year would be charged the same monthly access fee as all other customers or have their servi...

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 THEATER: " The Second City Swipes Right" presented by the Sherbino Theater, at the Wright Opera House, Ouray. 5:30 & 8:30 p.m. $45 reserved tickets, $35 general admission. THEATE...

The Colorado Attorney General’s office is asking Amerigas for answers after customers across the state have reported propane delivery issues. In a letter sent Wednesday to the Pennsylvania- based comp...

Ouray County kicked off its long-awaited master plan update process Tuesday, with a work session with consultants KLJ Engineering and the Planning Commission. The county’s current master plan was adop...

The Ouray City Council on Tuesday night rejected giving itself a pay increase that would have been accompanied by a benefits package, despite a survey showing councilors make less than many of their p...

Ridgway town councilors have expressed interest in a tax on second homes as one way to raise money for affordable housing, a rare strategy that hasn’t been implemented in Colorado yet. At a workshop l...

Fees charged by the city of Ouray for everything from development and sign permits to short-term rental applications and building inspections will increase significantly under a proposal presented to ...

Since 2017, Ouray County residents had been represented in the state Senate by Don Coram of Montrose. But that changed last month as a result of redistricting, a process by which new congressional and...

A split board of Ouray County commissioners reinforced a decision to close County Road 361 to vehicle traffic on Tuesday, as mine representatives scrambled at the last minute to convince them otherwis...

Fees charged by the city of Ouray for everything from development and sign permits to short-term rental applications and inspections will increase significantly under a proposal the City Council is ex...

Ouray County commissioners voted on Feb. 8 to pursue a pay raise for elected officials that would increase salaries for commissioners, clerks, treasurers and assessors by almost 18% and sheriffs by ar...

Though his job as coroner is to determine the cause and manner of someone’s death, Glenn Boyd knows he has just as much responsibility to the living as the dead. He knows some people are meeting him a...

The east side of the three-story Space to Create building in Ridgway is a big white wall, and about 15 mem-bers of the community met on Feb. 8 to discuss turning the space into a public art installati...

Another Best of Ouray County readers' choice awards is in the books! Thank you to the more than 650 of you who cast your votes online across 39 categories. Congratulations to those who were chose by ...

The Ridgway Town Council is considering possible revenue streams for affordable housing efforts, including a short-term rental tax similar to Ouray’s excise tax. A workshop held Wednesday night follow...

When his propane-fueled stove went out the day before Thanksgiving, Tate Rogers didn’t think much of it at first. “I just kind of blew it off,” he said, because it isn’t his home’s only heat source. B...