Ouray County has about $880,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds to spend, and earlier this month each county department had the opportunity to tell commissioners how it would like to use the money. ...

Railroad Days this weekend The Ridgway Railroad Museum is hosting the annual Railroad Days on Saturday and Sunday, with free history events, guided tours and rides on the Galloping Goose #4, the RGS M...

RIDGWAY MARSHAL The following is a summary of cases the Ridgway Marshal's Office handled from Sept. 5-18. If you have information on any of the below active cases or of any other incident that you hav...

Ouray city leaders are preparing to crack down on residents and business owners who fail to clear snow and ice from their sidewalks, adding specificity and teeth to rules that historically haven’t bee...

50 YEARS AGO September 14, 1972 - Mining of the extensive Tongue Mesa coal fields is more than a remote possibility here, as exploration is stepped up. Rumors that a large coal plant may be constructe...

Don Fehd had a quirky, genuine way with the visitors who climbed into his Jeep. He’d ask them where they were from. And then, before they could finish saying their hometown, he’d exclaim, “I was from...

OURAY SHERIFF The following is an excerpt of cases handled by the Ouray County Sheriff's Office from Sept. 5-11: SEPT. 5 Deputy responded to an agency assist in Ridgway. Deputy conducted a traffic sto...

High-speed fiber internet is coming to around 700 homes in the North Log Hill, Idlewild and Elk Meadows neighborhoods of Ouray County. Clearnetworx, the sister company of Deeply Digital, which install...

GUNNISON Gunnison City Manager Russ Forrest announced his resignation on Aug. 23, to take effect sometime this fall. The decision marks both a departure and a homecoming for Forrest, as he intends to ...

Dallas Creek Water Company can enact much of the rate increase it sought earlier this year, but it cannot pursue another rate hike for two years and must be more transparent with its customers about f...

OURAY POLICE The following is an excerpt of cases handled by the Ouray Police Department from Sept. 7-13: SEPT. 7 Officers attended firearms training at the Chief Zortman Range. Officer returned a pho...

Ouray’s Rotary Park sees dozens of rock climbers every weekend, and it will soon get a new kiosk and shelter thanks to funding from the Ouray Climbers Alliance, City of Ouray, Ouray Chamber Resort Ass...

If you see a plume of dust rising behind your vehicle while cruising down a dirt road, you’re going too fast, according to Ouray County Road and Bridge Superintendent Ty Barger. Speeding on county roa...

For the first time, details about convictions, case dispositions, and other aspects of the criminal justice process in the 7th Judicial District have been made public. District Attorney Seth Ryan’s of...

A Ouray resident figured applying a healthy dose of chili powder to the lid of a trash can might deter a hungry bear last week. There was just one problem: A waste collection worker got to the trash c...

UPDATE, 3 P.M. Three people were killed this afternoon when their Jeep rolled down an embankment on County Road 361, the Colorado State Patrol confirmed. A 72-year-old man from Ouray, a 60-year-old wo...

A CenturyLink fiber line was cut during construction at the firehouse project in Ridgway Thursday, causing an outage in Ridgway, Log Hill and other parts of the county.  "Some customers in Ouray Count...

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 a.m. and every Wednesday night at 5:30 p.m. at St. Daniel’s Church, 614 Fifth St., Ouray. Every Thursday and Sunday at 7 p.m. in the sanctu...

GUNNISON The Gunnison Arts Center was one of three recipients of the Community Revitalization Grant announced Monday by Colorado Creative Industries, a division of the Colorado Office of Economic Deve...

In the first year of typical standardized testing since 2019, local students mostly outperformed the state on Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) tests, but still lagged in some areas behind ...