For the last three years, COVID-19 has dictated and dominated most, and at times all, of the day-to-day business at the Ouray County Public Health department. In the height of the pandemic, that meant...

Kindergarteners squirmed and fidgeted on a colorful rug in the Ridgway Elementary School library Tuesday, sitting crosslegged and elbow-to-elbow as librarian Kara Young read them a story. Around the c...

Ouray County has reported more than 40 new COVID-19 cases in the last month, in addition to cases detected with at-home tests which may be unreported or uncounted. Ouray County’s one-week average posi...

A state mobile vaccine bus will be in Ouray on April 16, returning to provide COVID-19 vaccines and booster shots to newly eligible groups. Second booster shots are now available for immunocompromised...

Ouray County Public Health may increase gift card incentives to $100 in an effort to improve COVID-19 vaccination rates, especially among school-aged children. Public Health Director Tanner Kingery is...

With this month marking the two-year anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we thought it worthwhile to revisit noteable dates and events, turning points and landmarks as they occurred in...

As he began a monthly multi-agency command meeting last week, Ouray County Emergency Manager Glenn Boyd paused before launching into the agenda. “March 5 marked our two-year anniversary of being invo...

Masks are no longer required in Ouray County facilities, after commissioners voted to repeal the mandate in alignment with recent changes from the 7th Judicial District. Masks were previously required...

Ridgway and Ouray school districts will make masks optional in classrooms and on buses starting Monday. The change is in line with new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whi...

Ridgway and Ouray School Districts plan to make masks optional starting March 7.  The change is in line with new guidance the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released last week, which says ...

Mask mandates are out in Colorado school districts. Over the last two weeks, districts around the state have dropped their mask requirements or set deadlines to do so as local public health department...

After two years of cancellations due to COVID-19, organizers of the FJ Summit announced they’re ending the annual event that brought hundreds of Toyota owners to Ouray for more than a decade. “While t...

As her kindergarteners danced in her Ouray School classroom Tuesday morning, Kasey Chertack issued a reminder. “You keep pulling down your mask,” she said to one student. “We talked about that yester...

Ridgway and Ouray will start collecting wastewater samples to be tested for COVID-19, joining a statewide effort to track and detect the virus. Both municipalities will collect samples twice per week ...

Ridgway Elementary School was the site of the county's eighth COVID-19 outbreak earlier this month, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.  The school had one staff cas...

A crowd of spectators erupted in cheers as Tyler Kempney hung upside down from a wooden box dangling over the Uncompahgre Gorge. They filled the Ouray Ice Park’s lower bridge and lined the opposite s...

Bette Maurer was lying face down in a hospital bed, connected to a machine helping her breathe. She’d resisted the doctors and nurses at first, objecting to spending so much time lying prone, despite ...

The Ouray City Council is considering allowing the public to once again participate in council meetings remotely, a move one councilor promoted as allowing the council to be more transparent. Councilo...

Libraries in Ridgway and Ouray are now distributing free KN95 and surgical masks from the state, and the federal government has opened up an ordering system for free COVID-19 tests to be shipped later...

A decision on whether to implement a new mask mandate won’t be made until the end of January, more than a month into the latest COVID-19 surge. Last week, the county's new medical officer proposed ena...