Ridgway voters have chosen two new members for their town council. Tuesday’s official election results show newcomers J.T. Thomas and Polly Enochs will join the council, and incumbents Terry Schuyler...

Ouray County will give $10,000 of federal funding to the Home Trust of Ouray County for operations as the nonprofit works to grow its capacity, becoming the first local government to put financial bac...

Unofficial election results in the Ridgway town council election show Terry Schuyler, Kevin Grambley, Polly Enochs and J.T. Thomas have been elected to the council. They received the most votes in th...

Work on U.S. 550 runs through April 8 Motorists should give themselves extra time traveling between Ridgway and Ouray through the end of next week as Colorado Department of Transportation crews perfor...

Maybe you grew up with classmates who used the word “gay” to describe something they thought was stupid. Or perhaps the boys at school played “smear the queer,” a chase game of keep away and tackling....

As soon as they emptied the can of fish on the ground, Lisa Knight saw the cats pouring out from under the double wide trailer. "There must have been 50 of them," she said. She grabbed five kittens th...

Coming off back-to-back record years of sales and lodging tax revenue, the city of Ouray is off to a strong economic start in 2022, which includes receipts from the new excise tax on short-term rental...

SILVERTON Congratulations to Tyler George, Dayna Kranker and Jeff Davis on their new roles as trustees on Silverton’s Town Board. Because there were no write-in candidates submitted by the deadline on...

Erin Eddy hasn’t hidden his frustration with Ouray’s shortage of affordable housing. Last summer, he took to social media and posted a sign outside the Ouray Brewery, attributing the restaurant’s shor...

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...

Editor's note:  This is the fourth profile in an occasional series highlighting those in Ouray County who are struggling to find housing, living in unusual situations or trying to solve the housing pr...

The Ouray City Council and Planning Commission plan to revise their accessory dwelling unit regulations, removing two requirements in the hopes of encouraging more people to build the units for long-t...

Ouray County commissioners plan to extend a moratorium on new marijuana cultivation licenses in the county for another six months after their fourth work session on reworking the county’s marijuana or...

An above-average snowpack so far this winter is good news for water users in the Gunnison River Basin, but area reservoir levels are expected to remain well below average into the summer and the long-...

The city of Ouray has been approved for a loan of up to $18.5 million to pay for the construction of a new wastewater treatment plant, even as officials acknowledged the loan amount and potential inte...

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...

SILVERTON Sasquatch Expedition Campers, a start-up business in San Juan County, was approved by the Colorado Economic Development Commission to receive incentives through the Rural Jump-Start Program....

Ouray County Public Health may increase gift card incentives to $100 in an effort to improve COVID-19 vaccination rates, especially among school-aged children. Public Health Director Tanner Kingery is...

The San Miguel Power Association is considering finding another company to supply some of its power, a move it says would likely save members money while boosting the amount of renewable energy in its...

Out of the hundreds of photos he posted on his social media accounts — craggy thirteeners and fourteeners, a splitboard perched above untouched, hip-deep powder, a speck of a man in the middle of a h...