OURAY COUNTY A local grants fund that awards more than $3.4 million annually in western Colorado is encouraging Ouray County nonprofit organizations to apply for funding. The Western Colorado Communit...

  The sheer majesty of Yankee Boy Basin is what captured Steve Traudt's heart more than 40 years ago, when he passed through Ouray and happened to join a Jeep trip. That was back in 1975, and he stil...

By Mary Menz, Special to the Plaindealer April showers bring May flowers to many places, but abundant snowpack and regular rain make the wildflowers in Ouray County’s high elevations burst in a profu...

OURAY COUNTY Ouray County residents who attended a town hall meeting on proposed wildfire mitigation rules were receptive to those regulations. The meeting on Aug. 6 included a presentation on wildfir...

OURAY COUNTY Chase Nicholson of Ouray caught 571 smallmouth bass and won the top prize of $5,000 for the most fish caught in the Colorado Parks and Wildlife tournament at Ridgway Reservoir. Anglers wh...

  Ouray County’s rural population will be harder to count in next year’s Census than areas with home mail delivery, U.S. Census Bureau representatives said last week in a planning meeting. During the ...

Ouray County DirecTV customers will be able to watch their favorite CBS shows again starting today, as an agreement between the network and the cable provider reached early Thursday ends a blackout of...

Forest and wildlife officials are alerting the public to increased black bear activity in and around Blue Lakes in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness they say is caused by campers improperly storing and di...

  The Ouray City Council is backing away from a proposal to ask voters in November to tax the owners of short-term rental units, deciding instead to direct staff to gather more information about a ran...

  A debilitating, highly contagious viral disease affecting horses, cows and pigs has been detected in Ouray County. Earlier this week, the first case of vesicular stomatitis was confirmed in Ouray Co...

  Local DirecTV customers may have noticed a gaping hole in their available channels lately - namely the loss of the Denver CBS affiliate station KCNC, which went dark last month. Fans of shows includ...

  A goose is attacking a duck. It was one of the first calls for service Justin Perry received as a Montrose patrol officer fresh out of the police academy. And it frustrated him. Why were police bei...

WESTERN COLORADO Crews have finished reconstruction of a section of Colorado Highway 145 between Telluride and Cortez that was destroyed by a massive rockslide in May. The $1.2 million project, which ...

When Colorado legalized marijuana, it became a pioneer in creating new policies to deal with the drug. Now the state’s surgeons, nurses and anesthesiologists are becoming pioneers of a different sort ...

TOWN OF RIDGWAY A free concert at United Church of the San Juans in Ridgway features a well-known local soprano as well as ice cream sundaes. Allyson Connally Cotham, the church's choir director, will...

TOWN OF RIDGWAY Artists from around the country will descend on Ridgway this weekend for a festival that blends quality with accessibility. Now in its 35th year, the Ridgway Rendezvous arts and crafts...

The Ouray Hot Springs Pool hosted more than 400 young swimmers from around the state last weekend for the Colorado Summer Club Championships, and among them were four members of the local Screaming E...

Ouray County Sheriff Lance FitzGerald discovered shortly after promoting Richard Herman that his new undersheriff was under investigation for alleged sex crimes in Montrose, but the county didn’t plac...

  A longtime Ouray County sheriff’s deputy who had been promoted to undersheriff is accused of soliciting sex from a 15-year-old boy who was walking home from school last year, according to an indictm...