Blue Lakes parking lot reopens The gate to access the U.S. Forest Service’s Blue Lakes trailhead via County Road 7 has reopened after more than four months of construction and restoration work. Hikers...

Ouray County included in potential wolf release area Ouray County could be selected for the state's next site for wolf reintroduction, according to an update from Colorado Parks and Wildlife given to ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Ouray Police Department are investigating a Ouray woman’s report that she was attacked by a bear behind the Beaumont Hotel in Ouray early Saturday morning. Authorit...

Welcome to Ridgway, Colorado, U.S.A., Earth — the first place in the world to formally adopt and fly the International Flag of Planet Earth. The Ridgway Town Council voted Wednesday night to raise the...

Ridgway band Smutdolly opened for Paco Versailles at the Mountain Air Music Series on June 15 in Fellin Park in Ouray. Pictured here, from left to right, are guitarist Derek Jones, lead vocalist Polly...

The rubber ducks will return to Rollans Park this weekend, but for a hunt rather than a race. And better leave those discount store inner tubes at home. When revelers gather along the Uncompahgre Rive...

Dave Conrad jokes that he got the recessive gene for music. His mother, a concert violinist, is the one in the family who got the musical talent, he tells people. But music has always played an impor...

Cara Fandel spent 32 years viewing the world through her camera lens before she turned to a different kind of art. Though she enjoyed work as a professional photographer, Fandel said there were aspect...

Editor's note:  This is the first installment in our new, occasional feature called "burning questions." We thought this one would be a great one to start with, given the celebration of Flag Day this ...

One aspect of theater John Kissingford loves most is that it creates conversations. And here comes a production, adapted from an ancient Greek play and updated for modern times, that explores power dy...

You can spot a piece of Kellie Day’s artwork long before you’re close enough to the canvas to see her signature. Soft pastel shades and vibrant jewel tones come together to form lush bouquets, sweepin...

To understand Craig Hinkson’s passion for building, you have to flip the pages of history back to the early 1970s, when the mines above Ouray were still pumping out precious metals, residents burned c...

Heather Smith knows what many kids hear as their families walk up and down Main Street, popping in and out of shops. “By the time they get here, they’ve been told a hundred times, 'Don’t touch, don’t...

Harlan Schoonover was driving home late one night from work when he saw it. One of the industrial buildings he passed on the highway didn't have any camper trailers out front anymore. It's the type o...

Second Chance Humane Society’s Board of Directors has hired new Executive Director Nick Gilman on a nine-month contract, with board leadership describing the nonprofit’s next phase as “an exciting res...

Photos courtesy David Emory

Admit it: It's a rough time right now. Inflation is taking a big bite out of your pocketbook. Who knows what's happening with the economy? And we won't even mention those property value assessments th...