Both school districts in Ouray County have closed for school today. Ridgway announced a snow day closure for K-12 this morning. A reported 9 inches of snow fell overnight in the area.
The state health department has amended its limits on personal gatherings for counties in the “safer at home” category, including Ouray County.
Despite high winds and dry conditions, the Ice Fire near Silverton has remained under 600 acres and is estimated to
Mail theft on Log Hill investigated The Ouray County sheriff has received two reports of mail theft involving financial items, both located off County Road 1 on Log Hill. Both reports involved stand-alone mailboxes on the roadside.
The show will go on for the 2021 Ouray Ice Festival. But rather than crammed shoulder-to-shoulder above the Uncompahgre Gorge, spectators will be spread thousands of miles apart.
Ouray County has recorded its second death of a resident who tested positive for COVID19. The 89-year-old woman died at Montrose Memorial Hospital earlier this week after testing positive for the virus.
The contract for the new Ouray city administrator contains many of the typical job perks enjoyed by the municipal equivalent of a CEO — a six-figure salary, severance pay under most any circumstance and matching retirement contributions.
GUNNISON Resi dents in the town of Crested Butte are "fired up" and ready to fight a plan to alter access to popular trails that are, more or less, in their front yards. "We've already had issues of people driving at unimaginable speeds, people changing their clothes in front of our houses, sleeping in their cars," said Teocalli Avenue resident Chelsea Dalporto-McDowell.
Republican Marilyn Harris of Pagosa Springs is cha llenging incumbent Rep. Barbara Mc Lachlan for her seat in the state house.
Birds are the barometer Of the environment -Many scientists- Every year it seems the bird population of songbirds and other species goes down in numbers of survival. In the first part of September, I thought we would have a good year for warblers' success as we were seeing them in high numbers.