Modular homes, which have components built off-site in factories, are becoming more popular in Colorado as home-building prices and material costs have climbed and labor shortages have affected the co...

A proposed Dallas Creek Water Company rate hike that has drawn abundant criticism and opposition has been delayed again, this time until at least early next year. Administrative Law Judge G. Harris Ad...

Development pressures may lead Ridgway to enact a moratorium on new building permit reviews, or to extend deadlines for reviewing applications with an emergency ordinance. Town Administrator Preston N...

County seeks monkeypox vaccine Ouray County Public Health is preparing for possible monkeypox infections, though all nine active cases of monkeypox in Colorado are on the Front Range. County Public He...

Brian Mueller watched as the crane lifted part of his new dream home into the air, over treetops, and held it suspended over a concrete foundation. As it hovered above, he could look inside and see i...

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...

Ouray County may hire a pollster to help gauge public support for a tax increase to fund the sheriff's office and word a ballot question for the November election. The idea came up at the most recent ...

Mountain Medical Center, LLC will merge later this summer with Montrose-based Cedar Point Health, which will continue providing services at the Sherman Street clinic in Ridgway. Dr. Joel Gates announc...

Kailey Rhoten, Ouray’s first tourism and destination marketing director, isn’t just focused on bringing in guests — she's tasked with balancing community relations, tourist attraction and trying to en...

Spending in Ouray in May slipped for the second consecutive month compared with the same month last year, though it far exceeded pre-pandemic spending in May 2019. Sales tax receipts from May purchase...

GUNNISON Although visitors poured into town to celebrate the Fourth of July, the Crested Butte Wildflower Festival and enjoy the Gunnison Valley’s public lands, summer visitor numbers across the count...

Ouray County Road and Bridge staff will finish improvements to County Road 1 next week, while a number of other projects have been tabled until later this fiscal year due to staff allocation decisions...

In Ouray County’s first attempt at enforcing its 2018 ordinance limiting the number of short-term rentals, a company hired by the county has identified nine allegedly unlicensed rentals. Deckard Techn...

The following is an excerpt of cases handled by the Ouray Police Department from July 5-8: JULY 5 Officer took a theft report in the 1200 block of Oak Street. It turned out package delivery was delaye...

GUNNISON Gunnison County commissioners on Tuesday voted unanimously to go to the polls in November asking voters to approve expanding the allowed uses of lodging tax revenue collected through the Loca...

The following is an excerpt of cases handled by the Ouray County Sheriff's Office from July 4-10: JULY 4 Deputy responded to an animal bite in the 200 block of County Road 23. Deputy conducted four tr...

The cash-poor Ouray Silver Mines has been placed into receivership after its parent company defaulted on a $28 million loan intended to launch the Revenue-Virginius Mine southwest of Ouray back into p...

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...

At age 11, Ridgway resident Dory Wick has carved out her own role in Ouray County’s Pride celebration, with the goal of making sure members of the local LGBTQ+ community know they aren’t alone. This ...

After debate, Ouray County commissioners have agreed to ratify the decision made by Sheriff Justin Perry to join the City of Ouray, Town of Ridgway and the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison nationa...