Ouray County voters turned down a request to raise taxes to fund the Public Health department, which would have been the first of its kind in the state. About 57% of voters opposed the 2 mill levy, wh...

The Ridgway varsity boys’ soccer team finds itself in a good place — making a run in the Class 2A state tournament. The goal, though, is to get to a great one — winning another state title. The Demons...

Voters approved two measures for Ridgway School District on Tuesday, providing funding for school renovations and raising taxes for the district to retain teachers and preserve small class sizes, amon...

As of 10:43 p.m. These are unofficial results. Ouray County general election results show Ouray will have a new mayor, Ridgway School District will be able to renovate its elementary school and Ouray ...

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 and every Tuesday and Wednesday night at 7 at St. Daniel’s Church, 614 Fifth St., Ouray. Every Thursday and Sunday at 7 p.m. in the sanctua...

Sadie McCracken, an 8-year-old third-grader at Ridgway Elementary School, holds a sign supporting Ballot Issues 4A and 4B and yells at traffic driving by on Sherman Street on Oct. 22. About 50 people ...

Support for Ridgway School District's ballot measures is something all the candidates for school board seats have in common. During two forums this month, the issue rose to the top and candidates gave...

Montrose Regional Health is reporting a surge of COVID-19 cases and record patient numbers in the Emergency Department, forcing more patient transfers and longer wait times. Instead of slowing down an...

Public Health Director Tanner Kingery sees the emails and the invitations: campaign events, gatherings, events urging people to “meet your neighbors post-COVID.” But from inside his office, any kind o...

The committee advocating for the passage of a pair of funding measures for the Ridgway School District has pulled in more than $8,000 in cash contributions, fueled in large part by three significant d...

Election Day is on Tuesday, and early ballot returns indicate 841 ballots had been turned in to the county elections office as of Wednesday morning, just over 18% of the total ballots mailed to regist...

Montrose Memorial Hospital is reporting a surge of COVID-19 cases and record patient numbers in the Emergency Department, forcing more patient transfers and longer wait times.  Instead of slowing down...

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 and every Tuesday and Wednesday night at 7 at St. Daniel’s Church, 614 Fifth St., Ouray. Every Thursday and Sunday at 7 p.m. in the sanctua...

Ouray Mayor Greg Nelson and City Councilor Ethan Funk presented disparate visions in their respective bids for the mayor’s seat during an Oct. 14 candidate forum, parting ways on issues ranging from ...

Ouray County Public Health Director Tanner Kingery asked county commissioners Tuesday to schedule a conversation about a mask mandate, prompted by a recent increase in COVID-19 cases. He didn’t recomm...

A San Juan County commissioner is among the six property owners Ouray city officials claim are illegally operating short-term rental units within the city, according to records obtained by the Plainde...

Ouray Mayor Greg Nelson is the only one of the six candidates for City Council who has received donations in the Nov. 2 race so far, and he and Tamara Gulde, running for a council seat, have spent the...

Half a block of North Laura Street will be closed for about three months to accommodate construction for the town of Ridgway’s Space to Create project. The closure is motivated by safety reasons, acco...

As soon as Dolgio Nergui and Dan Hughes started looking at houses in Ouray, the problem was clear: without another income source, it wasn’t going to be doable. “When you’re buying a house here, you’r...