A news brief on Page 10 in the May 4-10 edition about a fatal snowplowing accident should have said Jim Olson was plowing a neighbor's driveway, not his own. Also, the accident happened on Red Stone R...

UPDATE, 6:30 p.m. Saturday: Jennifer and Jeff have been found safe. Ridgway Marshal Shane Schmalz told the Plaindealer on Saturday that Saguache County officials told him Jeff contacted his father to ...

Mid-spring is an in-between time in Ouray. The winter sports season that drew throngs of ice climbers, snowshoers and cross-country skiers has melted away. And the backcountry trails are weeks away fr...

The Ridgway Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend Town Council adopt new changes to its planning and zoning regulations, after a months-long revision process and development moratorium. L...

Man dies in snow plowing accident A Ouray County man died last week when he fell off a skid steer as he plowed snow off a neighbor's driveway, according to Ouray County Coroner Glenn Boyd. Jim Olson, ...

Coming off three consecutive years of record-setting sales tax revenue and given a much-predicted recession, Ouray County business owners may wonder what the coming summer will look like for their bo...

Renovations at Ridgway Elementary School are on track to wrap up in the next few months, with the last of the major work scheduled to start when students are out of school for the summer. The $18 mill...

The Ouray City Council will give city staff more time to develop a plan to potentially sell alcohol at the Hot Springs Pool, increasing the possibility that a pilot program wouldn’t be rolled out unti...

Ouray County commissioners met Tuesday with the head of Silver X Mining, the company set to purchase the Revenue-Virginius Mine, to discuss a future agreement for maintaining County Road 361. José Gar...

Gov. Jared Polis and Colorado legislative leaders announced a deal Monday to provide property tax relief to homeowners and businesses while limiting the hit to school funding. Lawmakers have exactly a...

UPDATE at 9:15 a.m. Saturday: The boil order has been lifted, after lab results confirmed bacterial test results were negative. ______________   The town of Ridgway remains under a "boil advisory" tod...

UPDATE at 9:15 a.m. Saturday Ridgway has lifted the "water boil advisory" required by the state health department, after lab results showed the water throughout the system has been properly disinfect...

Chris Andrews didn’t think of himself as an entrepreneur, and he never envisioned going into business with his mother. As he tells it, he was “always the bartender.” Growing up in Telluride, he worke...

The Ouray County Plaindealer took home 19 awards last weekend from the four-state Top of the Rockies journalism contest, including five first-place prizes and an award for public service. The Plaindea...

Ouray County will allow silver mine employees 12 hours to transport equipment, fuel and other supplies up to the Revenue Virginius Mine with vehicles on Camp Bird Road. The route has been closed at Se...

Ouray tax revenue dropped in February compared to all-time highs last year, as receipts from sales and lodging taxes slid by double digits. The city collected $145,936 in sales tax in February, down m...

Ouray County Administrator Connie Hunt presented two options to county commissioners last week to increase administrative staffing, following an evaluation last month when the board said her workload ...

Ouray County property owners should expect their tax bills to increase next year, due to the surge in sale prices and a real estate boom that saw one in six properties in the county sell within two ye...

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...