Elk Meadows residents pay some of the lowest water rates in the region: $33 a month. While most municipalities and utility companies raise rates gradually every year or every few years to keep up with...

Millions of dollars for affordable housing efforts will become available to Colorado counties and municipalities later this year, a result of Proposition 123 passing last fall. But to qualify for thos...

John Lynch can easily rattle off the orders of his regulars at Panny’s Pizza: Ouray Police Chief John Wood, for example, orders 10 wings with a side of teriyaki; Deputy Gio Mendoza usually likes an As...

After living and working in Los Angeles for 18 years, Tim Beene relished the idea of having some privacy. He sold his yacht repair business and, in 2001, discovered a subdivision tucked away at the e...

THURSDAY, APRIL 13 LEGAL CLINIC: A free legal clinic for parties who have no attorney. Volunteer attorneys answer questions by phone. Ouray Library, 320 Sixth Ave., 2-5 p.m. Call 970325-4616 to be add...

Ouray County and the city of Ouray are partnering to identify dead, dying or diseased trees that need to be removed from forested areas that rim the city in order to reduce the risk of wildre The coun...

Starting May 15, rapid COVID tests will no longer be available at the Ouray County Health Department. Health Department Director Tanner Kingery explained these tests cost roughly $500 apiece on the op...

Top far left, Roman Sackman competes in the 100 meter dash on April 1 at the Mickey Dunn Invitational track meet in Grand Junction. He placed fourth, with a time of 11.61. Overall, the boys’ team pla...

Ridgway School District Superintendent Susan Lacy's annual performance review included accolades for her leadership, professionalism and support for not only her staff but the entire school community....

The Ridgway Planning Commission voted Tuesday to reject an application for a new subdivision east of Highway 550, after nearly a year of continuations, debate and revisions, including a last-minute o...

Local mayors are pushing back against proposed legislation that would make major changes to land use rules in Colorado, though Ridgway and Ouray appear likely to be largely exempt from new requirement...

Weeks after declining to act on a proposal to give itself a pay raise and an accompanying benefits package, the Ouray City Council is reconsidering part of the idea. Councilors on Monday informally di...

The healthy snowpack whitening Colorado’s mountain peaks has given water officials some breathing room to manage the Colorado River Basin’s ongoing drought. The challenge will be not to squander it. A...

The fire that destroyed the former Fairway Pines clubhouse in November started in a pool heater in a maintenance room, investigators determined. According to a report written by Ouray County Sheriff’s...

Goodbye La Niña, it’s been a heckuva ride! To be fair, she brought Ouray two normal snow years (178.4 inches in 2020-21, 149.9 inches so far in 2022-23) and one dry stinker (128.9 inches in 2021-22)....

Dear Editor: I am writing this letter to highlight the Four Winds proposed development located adjacent to the established Vista Terrace Subdivision in Ridgway. The application approval process for th...

50 YEARS AGO March 29, 1973 - A wrecker towing a car went out of control last Saturday night and tore out the bridge that crosses Skyrocket Creek just north of Ouray. The wrecker, a 1957 International...

Dear Editor: I would agree with boilers being used to supplement the temperature of the Ouray Hot Springs Pool as long as the water is from the same source and the water chemistry is kept the same. Wh...