UPDATE at 9:15 a.m. Saturday: The boil order has been lifted, after lab results confirmed bacterial test results were negative. ______________   The town of Ridgway remains under a "boil advisory" tod...

UPDATE at 9:15 a.m. Saturday Ridgway has lifted the "water boil advisory" required by the state health department, after lab results showed the water throughout the system has been properly disinfect...

Chris Andrews didn’t think of himself as an entrepreneur, and he never envisioned going into business with his mother. As he tells it, he was “always the bartender.” Growing up in Telluride, he worke...

The Ouray County Plaindealer took home 19 awards last weekend from the four-state Top of the Rockies journalism contest, including five first-place prizes and an award for public service. The Plaindea...

Ouray County will allow silver mine employees 12 hours to transport equipment, fuel and other supplies up to the Revenue Virginius Mine with vehicles on Camp Bird Road. The route has been closed at Se...

Ouray tax revenue dropped in February compared to all-time highs last year, as receipts from sales and lodging taxes slid by double digits. The city collected $145,936 in sales tax in February, down m...

Ouray County Administrator Connie Hunt presented two options to county commissioners last week to increase administrative staffing, following an evaluation last month when the board said her workload ...

Ouray County property owners should expect their tax bills to increase next year, due to the surge in sale prices and a real estate boom that saw one in six properties in the county sell within two ye...

For the last three years, COVID-19 has dictated and dominated most, and at times all, of the day-to-day business at the Ouray County Public Health department. In the height of the pandemic, that meant...

Commuters traveling between Ouray and Montrose should bring an extra supply of patience with them over the next year and a half, as a series of construction projects on U.S. Highway 550 could add up t...

Ouray police are trying to find out who illegally entered the former Red Mountain Brewing building last week and caused thousands of dollars in damage by turning on the hot water and plugging a floor ...

Some Ouray residents are throwing cold water on the City Council’s idea to sell alcohol at the Hot Springs Pool. Four of them stood before the council on Monday to ask questions and express their oppo...

The Ridgway Town Council appeared closer to reaching a decision on raising the town’s lodging tax to generate money for affordable housing this week, after three discussions on where to find funding t...

A Canadian company plans to purchase the Revenue-Virginius Mine, which has been in a court-appointed receivership since last July after previous owners shut down operations due to financial trouble. S...

Though rivers are rising in low-lying areas downstream, Ouray County isn't forecasted to be in any imminent danger from high levels of runoff this spring. This year, the flood risk due to runoff for m...

The lottery for Wetterhorn Homes, the 14-home deed-restricted neighborhood scheduled for construction in Ridgway this summer, will be held June 15 at Ridgway Town Hall. Applications will open April 26...

Ouray Hot Springs Pool Manager Carmen Brashier resigned from her job last week, citing differences with city leadership and what she considered a lack of support from management. Brashier, whose last ...

Left, some of the Easter egg hunt participants were laser-focused on getting the special eggs they could turn in for stuffed animals. The Ouray Elks Lodge also filled hundreds of eggs with treats for...