GUNNISON The benefit of the Gunnison-Crested Butte Regional Airport (GUC) to the surrounding area has soared in the last seven years, and that has county leaders all smiles. According to the latest fi...

A Ridgway man who wants to run for mayor has been blocked by the town clerk on the grounds that he hasn’t met the residency requirements to run for office. David Gottorff is protesting the decision ma...

The city of Ouray will bring in a marketing expert from the Colorado Tourism Office to help negotiate a new contract with the Ouray Tourism Office. An occasionally tense 90-minute work session on Mond...

A month into his tenure as Ridgway’s new top administrator, Preston Neill’s office is pretty bare. You won’t find motivational posters hanging on the walls. His diplomas are propped on a bookshelf wit...

GUNNISON A cultural establishment in Gunnison is the big winner as city leaders dole out an accumulation of marijuana money through this year’s grant cycle. The Gunnison Arts Center has netted more th...

Ninety petitions to gather signatures to hold Ouray County’s first recall election are circulating, with bipartisan volunteers pushing to collect double the signatures needed to ask voters whether the...

Students, parents and community members of Ridgway School District are overall pretty happy with school infrastructure and believe both buildings meet the needs of students in all areas proposed in a ...

A local marijuana grow facility has received another extension to address complaints from neighbors, the latest in a series of issues holding over from last year. Daniel Castillo of MS Support, a mari...

The Ouray City Council tabled a decision Monday on whether to explore rehabilitating its current sewer lagoons rather than building a new mechanical treatment plant while it waits to find out the envi...

In an effort to preserve historical structures from the Idarado Mine, Ouray County commissioners agreed Tuesday to accept a donation from Newmont Mining Corp. of two of the four Idarado houses located...

Local wedding planner honored with award A Ouray event and wedding planner has received an award from The Knot, earned from high ratings and recommendations from those who have used her services and a...

It should perhaps come as no surprise that, as a retired high school teacher, state Rep. Barbara McLachlan is focused primarily on education issues this legislative session. The package of bills intro...

It should perhaps come as no surprise that, as a retired high school teacher, state Rep. Barbara McLachlan is focused primarily on education issues this legislative session. The package of bills intro...

Time is running out for owners of short-term rentals to obtain a license from the city of Ouray. City officials will begin conducting code enforcement on properties leased for fewer than 30 days start...

Local wedding planner honored with award A Ouray event and wedding planner has received an award from The Knot, earned from high ratings and recommendations from those who have used her services and a...

A recall petition to remove Ouray County Sheriff Lance FitzGerald from office has been approved. Petition circulators now have 60 days to gather signatures to move forward with an election where count...

A warming climate will shorten the ice climbing season in Ouray County and is already shrinking or eliminating climbing routes around the world, a panel of climbers and weather experts said Sunday nig...

The voices asking Ouray County Sheriff Lance FitzGerald to resign now include his own staff. A Jan. 21 letter from a staff member to FitzGerald expressed embarrassment, disgust and a request for him t...

Phase one of the project to bring fiber optic cable from Montrose over Log Hill and into Ouray for a total of about 48 miles of new broadband is now 32 percent complete. Doug Seacat, owner of Deeply D...