A public transportation service linking Ouray, Ridgway and Montrose with $5 round trips could be on the road by April 2023, pending the results of a July 14 grant evaluation meeting. If all goes well,...

Sarah McConnell wasn't expecting to explain what condoms are to her 8-year-old son on the Fourth of July. But the Ouray business owner found herself doing so, after he opened what he thought was a bal...

GUNNISON As the water levels of Lake Powell and Lake Mead hit staggering lows, the Bureau of Reclamation recently asked water users along the Colorado River to cut their use by 2-4 million acre-feet b...

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...

Improvements to U.S. Highway 50 between Montrose and Gunnison originally slated for November completion will take until 2023, but the full daytime road closures drivers have seen during the project en...

Top: This co-ed battle between Richard Weber III and LiErin Wilson, on the right, and brother-sister team Tom Volstad and Josey Scoville was a fierce competition. Weber and Wilson prevailed. Bottom l...

TOP LEFT: Madison Cross, 4, laughs as she participates in the gunnysack race at Fellin Park in Ouray on July 4. Cross was visiting for the holiday with her family from Houston. ABOVE: Joel Branberg, ...

After more than eight hours of deliberations, a jury unanimously found Red Mountain Brewing Co. owner John Warren not guilty on three charges of sexual assault on Friday. Warren was arrested in Septem...

Left: Ridgway’s Mike Potter of Potter Ranch drove the only tractor in this year’s July 4 parade, which featured a variety of other vehicles and floats. Right: Residents and visitors were treated to a...

The Ouray firefighters were convincing when they asked Abby Romero and Justin Clark to come out and help spray the crowd during Monday’s water fights, but Romero figured out something more was going o...

The Ouray Dog Park will not house construction workers for the city’s water and wastewater treatment plants. The City Council determined Monday that “man camp” housing for construction workers wouldn’...

A multi-organizational effort to restore two old mine sites at Governor Basin and protect the surrounding environment is underway, with the Environmental Protection Agency, Uncompahgre Watershed Partn...

Ownership of Log Hill Mesa-based marijuana cultivation facility MS Support is changing hands, and Ouray County commissioners approved a transfer for the facility's license on Tuesday despite public co...

Ouray man injured in head-on crash A Ouray man was among three people seriously injured in a head-on collision on U.S. Highway 550 between Ridgway and Colona on Monday. The accident happened around 1:...

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...

The following is an excerpt of cases handled by the Ouray Police Department from June 20-28: JUNE 20 Officer responded to an animal problem in the 700 block of Fourth Street. Officer responded to a do...

A proposal from Dallas Creek Water Company to hike rates more than 50% has been met with concern from state regulators and opposition from customers who say the increase is excessive and unjustified. ...

Revenue across the board flattened or slid in April in Ouray, an indication that record spending that has filled city coffers the last couple of years may have started to slow. Sales tax receipts in A...

GUNNISON The Gunnison County commissioners gave a nod of approval for the Gunnison Country Food Pantry’s Food for Life expansion project, chipping in a grant of $30,000 to help finance the pantry’s pu...

She'll strap on her dirt biking chest protector and pull on layers of pants and a wetsuit. She'll tie the shoelaces on her Converse sneakers, the ones that let the water drain through the canvas so i...