If you see a plume of dust rising behind your vehicle while cruising down a dirt road, you’re going too fast, according to Ouray County Road and Bridge Superintendent Ty Barger. Speeding on county roa...

For the first time, details about convictions, case dispositions, and other aspects of the criminal justice process in the 7th Judicial District have been made public. District Attorney Seth Ryan’s of...

A Ouray resident figured applying a healthy dose of chili powder to the lid of a trash can might deter a hungry bear last week. There was just one problem: A waste collection worker got to the trash c...

UPDATE, 3 P.M. Three people were killed this afternoon when their Jeep rolled down an embankment on County Road 361, the Colorado State Patrol confirmed. A 72-year-old man from Ouray, a 60-year-old wo...

A CenturyLink fiber line was cut during construction at the firehouse project in Ridgway Thursday, causing an outage in Ridgway, Log Hill and other parts of the county.  "Some customers in Ouray Count...

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...

GUNNISON The Gunnison Arts Center was one of three recipients of the Community Revitalization Grant announced Monday by Colorado Creative Industries, a division of the Colorado Office of Economic Deve...

In the first year of typical standardized testing since 2019, local students mostly outperformed the state on Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) tests, but still lagged in some areas behind ...

Kindergarteners squirmed and fidgeted on a colorful rug in the Ridgway Elementary School library Tuesday, sitting crosslegged and elbow-to-elbow as librarian Kara Young read them a story. Around the c...

A pair of eyes peers out from behind handcuffs on the Ranch Watch sign that Leslie Brown has owned for about 20 years. It reads “watched by neighbors, patrolled by deputies,” and Brown has multiple s...

Dust control to resume on county roads Ouray County road and bridge workers will continue dust control treatments on county roads, after pausing in early August due to a lack of available water needed...

A man was killed and his wife was injured when their side-by-side all-terrain vehicle rolled about 500 feet in the Imogene Basin southwest of Ouray on Monday, authorities said. Tory Coonrod, 52, of Me...

Joan Shapiro didn’t notice the swarms of gnats until Saturday night, but at that point, it was all she could take. They covered the windows, attracted to the lights shining from inside her cabin in Id...

After years of battling project delays and cost increases, Ouray city officials this week caught a major break in their effort to build a desperately needed wastewater treatment plant — a lower constr...

As they finished cross country practice on Friday afternoon, Canyon Ishikawa and Paton Edwards ran back and forth across Fellin Park, matching each other’s strides. Ishikawa, a senior at Ridgway Seco...

Brett Lambert competed in so many rodeos this summer, he lost track of the number. The team roper from Commerce City saddled up again at the Ouray County Rodeo on Monday – his third rodeo in a week –...

OURAY POLICE The following is an excerpt of cases handled by the Ouray Police Department from Sept. 1-6: SEPT. 1 Officer responded to a parking problem in the 1200 block of Main Street. Officer was di...

Mountain Medical Center patients will have access to broader services and benefit from integrated health records through the merger with Montrose’s Cedar Point Health, said Chief Executive Officer Cor...

With the infrastructure at the nearly-30-year-old Ridgway State Park aging and visitation increasing, new Park Manager John Freeborn has a lot on his hands. “It’s been like living life through a fireh...

Despite state incentives that became available mid-summer, the Ouray Hot Springs Pool will head into fall short-staffed. According to Pool Manager Carmen Brashier, 18 of the facility’s 25 lifeguards w...