GUNNISON After voting against placing an $83.4 million bond on the ballot in 2021, the Gunnison Watershed School District Board has continued to make adjustments to the proposal, as it prepares to bri...

Sometimes we need a wake-up call, something that makes us sit up and pay attention — an artistic production that pushes us to question a societal convention or seek to right an injustice. And sometime...

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...

Ouray County commissioners are still hedging whether to submit a ballot question that would fund more sheriff's deputies, after Log Hill Mesa resident Richard Wojciechowski withdrew his citizen-propos...

Voyager Youth Program is considering expanding to serve younger children, and moving activities for teenagers away from the Teen Center in Ridgway. The organization currently serves children ages 5 to...

Photo by Denise Jones — Special to the Plaindealer This young bear decided to hang out in a cottonwood tree at Ridgway’s Hartwell Park on Saturday while families played in the park. Ridgway Marshal Sh...

A new draft ordinance laying out Ouray County’s rules for marijuana growers on unincorporated territory would still allow facilities on Log Hill Mesa, but provides more detailed direction on controver...

Ridgway voters may be asked this fall if they want to earmark a portion of lodging tax revenue for affordable housing projects. The town council agreed at its July 13 meeting to notify the county cler...

The following is an excerpt of cases handled by the Ouray County Sheriff's Office from July 11-17: JULY 11 Deputy did a VIN inspection in the 200 block of Gold Dust Lane. Deputy did a VIN inspection i...

Modular homes, which have components built off-site in factories, are becoming more popular in Colorado as home-building prices and material costs have climbed and labor shortages have affected the co...

A proposed Dallas Creek Water Company rate hike that has drawn abundant criticism and opposition has been delayed again, this time until at least early next year. Administrative Law Judge G. Harris Ad...

Development pressures may lead Ridgway to enact a moratorium on new building permit reviews, or to extend deadlines for reviewing applications with an emergency ordinance. Town Administrator Preston N...

County seeks monkeypox vaccine Ouray County Public Health is preparing for possible monkeypox infections, though all nine active cases of monkeypox in Colorado are on the Front Range. County Public He...

Brian Mueller watched as the crane lifted part of his new dream home into the air, over treetops, and held it suspended over a concrete foundation. As it hovered above, he could look inside and see i...

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...

Ouray County may hire a pollster to help gauge public support for a tax increase to fund the sheriff's office and word a ballot question for the November election. The idea came up at the most recent ...

Mountain Medical Center, LLC will merge later this summer with Montrose-based Cedar Point Health, which will continue providing services at the Sherman Street clinic in Ridgway. Dr. Joel Gates announc...

Kailey Rhoten, Ouray’s first tourism and destination marketing director, isn’t just focused on bringing in guests — she's tasked with balancing community relations, tourist attraction and trying to en...

Spending in Ouray in May slipped for the second consecutive month compared with the same month last year, though it far exceeded pre-pandemic spending in May 2019. Sales tax receipts from May purchase...

GUNNISON Although visitors poured into town to celebrate the Fourth of July, the Crested Butte Wildflower Festival and enjoy the Gunnison Valley’s public lands, summer visitor numbers across the count...