The city of Ouray will end 2021 hauling in a record amount of sales tax revenue for the second year in a row. The city this month raked in more than $246,000 in receipts from October sales, an 8% incr...

Nine months after hiring the county's first full-time public information officer, commissioners met with her to discuss the roles and responsibilities of the position. Jennifer Peterson was hired in M...

Editor's note: The Ouray County Plaindealer is publishing this story about mental health issues as part of the Colorado News Collaborative, or COLab, the nonprofit that unites more than 160 communiti...

A mobile home on County Road 22A burned this morning and is a total loss. The home was fully engulfed in flames when members of the Log Hill Volunteer Fire Department, the Montrose Fire Department, t...

ART SHOW: Ouray County Community Art Show at the Ridgway Library during normal hours. Nov. 12 through Jan. 12. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 a.m. and every Wednesday nig...

Ouray County is continuing to see an increase in demand for COVID testing and increased infection rates – with a 12.1% positivity rate as of Tuesday. The increased number of cases and need for testing...

A Ridgway man has been arrested in a case stemming from a fatal accident in September in Wyoming. Barrie Bloom, 68, was arrested at his home at 1030 Charles St., on a warrant from Rock Springs, for al...

Ouray County Attorney Leo Caselli and Commissioner Lynn Padgett successfully lobbied the State Board of Land Commissioners to formally recognize designated public rights-of-way on County Road 17 last ...

The following is a summary of cases the Ridgway Marshal's Office handled from Nov. 29-Dec. 12. If you have information on any of the below active cases or of any other incident that you have informati...

The Ouray School Board has selected local business owner and Ouray graduate Tom Fedel to fill an open seat. The board met in a special meeting Dec. 9 to interview three candidates for the opening. Fed...

GUNNISON The Gunnison Watershed School District has released a plan to drop its mask mandate that could make indoor masks voluntary in early 2022, if conditions are met. Developed with Gunnison County...

A trial for a local businessman accused of sexual assault has been postponed again, extending the three-year-old case into 2022. The latest delay came after new details surfaced in the case, which ste...

Both Ouray County school districts will be required by the state to begin increasing their mill levies annually for the next nine years under a mandate to reverse previous mill levy reductions. Ouray ...

Brian Briggs remembers the Ouray Silver Mines’ relationship with local ice climbing guides being as cold as the sheets of frozen water that beckoned to climbers up County Road 361. Mine employees and...

As far as beginnings go, it’s not how Peter O’Neil would have scripted it. High temperatures reaching the 50s and overnight lows hovering in the 30s deep into November in Ouray simply don’t allow for...

Motorists brave enough to try to navigate U.S. Highway 550 over Red Mountain Pass today should expect several hours' worth of delays. The Colorado Department of Transportation announced just before 8 ...

Ouray County will add four new full-time employees in 2022, in the annual budget approved unanimously by commissioners on Tuesday. With increased projected revenues from both property and sales taxes,...

Ouray will continue to allow local workers to camp in recreational vehicles in the city through next November, though only one employer used the program last summer. The City Council voted unanimously...

ART SHOW: Ouray County Community Art Show at the Ridgway Library during normal hours. Nov. 12 through Jan. 12. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 a.m. and every Wednesday nig...

A newly sworn-in and reconfigured Ouray City Council was immediately confronted with a sizable challenge Monday: the skyrocketing cost of the new wastewater treatment plant. City Administrator Silas ...