By Ray Ellen Bichell, Kaiser Health News DURANGO – Bartenders were pouring Old-Fashioneds at a bar with a bullet hole straight through the wood. Servers in corsets and fishnet stockings roamed the ro...

Ouray County buildings are scheduled to be open to the public on Monday, April 12. This tentative decision came Wednesday during a special work session of the Board of County Commissioners with depart...

A Ridgway School Board meeting was full of positive reports as the board and administrative staff looked to a post-pandemic future at their March 25 meeting. Secondary School Principal Russell Randolp...

Father Nathaneal Foshage paused behind the altar, carefully pulling a blue and white surgical mask over his face. He adjusted it before stepping out to the front of St. Daniel’s Church, standing at th...

All Coloradans will be eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine starting Friday, Gov. Jared Polis announced Monday.  The state's Phase 2, which includes everyone not previously eligible in earlier pha...

The interview for the most challenging job Tanner Kingery would ever have came less than five months after he became health department director. Standing in front of Ouray County commissioners a year...

Ouray County governments are set to receive an estimated $1.4 million from the latest economic stimulus bill, the American Rescue Plan Act. According to estimates from the Congressional Research Servi...

The Ouray School Board is already working to envision a coming school year with fewer COVID-19 related restrictions. At a work session March 18 they reviewed a draft of next year’s schedule, which wil...

State officials moved Ouray County on Wednesday to level green, the least restrictive on the COVID-19 color dial, allowing most businesses and events to operate at full capacity for the first time sin...

Ouray County has been given the green light to operate most businesses and events at full capacity, the first time in a year this has happened. State officials suddenly moved Ouray County to level gre...

Essential workers, people with high-risk conditions and anyone over 50 will be able to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Colorado starting Friday, while all residents are expected to be eligible by next...

Every other week, first responders and policy makers from around Ouray County gather virtually for updates on testing, vaccines, state regulations and the latest on the pandemic’s toll. Emergency Man...

Ouray County Public Health Agency has received and started administering 600 doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to eligible residents. The doses of the new vaccine arrived in the county l...

Ouray County leaped down two places on the state’s reopening color dial in two days - skipping from orange to yellow to blue - triggering looser restrictions for events, entertainment and pretty much ...

Only two days after moving to level yellow on the state's color dial for reopening during the pandemic, Ouray County will move to the "blue" caution level this afternoon. Less than a week ago, Ouray C...

Ouray County Public Health Agency has received 600 doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, which eligible people will begin receiving next week.  The doses of the new vaccine, which was autho...

    Colorado announced more changes to its vaccination prioritization phases last week, cutting down the number of people who will become eligible when the next phase starts on Friday. Grocery and agr...

Craig Spearman sat in his garage, bundled up in a jacket as he explained to his students their next assignment. He had escaped to meet with his students without interruption from his 1- and 3-year-ol...

Colorado announced more changes to its vaccination prioritization phases Friday, cutting down the number of people who will become eligible when the next phase starts next week. Grocery and agricultur...

Ouray County’s move to a lower level of pandemic restrictions has been delayed by a spike in positive cases and a decrease in testing, pushing the rate of positive tests too high to qualify for the ch...