Kindergarteners squirmed and fidgeted on a colorful rug in the Ridgway Elementary School library Tuesday, sitting crosslegged and elbow-to-elbow as librarian Kara Young read them a story. Around the c...

A pair of eyes peers out from behind handcuffs on the Ranch Watch sign that Leslie Brown has owned for about 20 years. It reads “watched by neighbors, patrolled by deputies,” and Brown has multiple s...

Dust control to resume on county roads Ouray County road and bridge workers will continue dust control treatments on county roads, after pausing in early August due to a lack of available water needed...

A man was killed and his wife was injured when their side-by-side all-terrain vehicle rolled about 500 feet in the Imogene Basin southwest of Ouray on Monday, authorities said. Tory Coonrod, 52, of Me...

Joan Shapiro didn’t notice the swarms of gnats until Saturday night, but at that point, it was all she could take. They covered the windows, attracted to the lights shining from inside her cabin in Id...

After years of battling project delays and cost increases, Ouray city officials this week caught a major break in their effort to build a desperately needed wastewater treatment plant — a lower constr...

As they finished cross country practice on Friday afternoon, Canyon Ishikawa and Paton Edwards ran back and forth across Fellin Park, matching each other’s strides. Ishikawa, a senior at Ridgway Seco...

Brett Lambert competed in so many rodeos this summer, he lost track of the number. The team roper from Commerce City saddled up again at the Ouray County Rodeo on Monday – his third rodeo in a week –...

OURAY POLICE The following is an excerpt of cases handled by the Ouray Police Department from Sept. 1-6: SEPT. 1 Officer responded to a parking problem in the 1200 block of Main Street. Officer was di...

Mountain Medical Center patients will have access to broader services and benefit from integrated health records through the merger with Montrose’s Cedar Point Health, said Chief Executive Officer Cor...

With the infrastructure at the nearly-30-year-old Ridgway State Park aging and visitation increasing, new Park Manager John Freeborn has a lot on his hands. “It’s been like living life through a fireh...

Despite state incentives that became available mid-summer, the Ouray Hot Springs Pool will head into fall short-staffed. According to Pool Manager Carmen Brashier, 18 of the facility’s 25 lifeguards w...

'How the West Was Won' memorabilia sought Do you have any photos, memorabilia or stories to share from when the 1962 epic Western movie “How The West Was Won” was filmed in and around Ridgway? If so, ...

New cannabis grow rules are officially on the books in Ouray County, as commissioners on Tuesday passed on second reading an ordinance governing facilities in unincorporated territory that will take e...

GUNNISON The new Gunnison County Public Library will open its doors to the community in September, almost 50 years after the county’s first public library was constructed on Wisconsin Street. The new ...

Ridgway runner Canyon Ishikawa, far left, competes in the Silverton Shrine Road Time Trials on Aug. 27. Ishikawa finished the 5k in 21:44. Lily Berwanger runs in the Silverton Shrine Road Time Trials...

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...

The U.S. Forest Service is cleaning up piles of hazardous, lead-contaminated mine waste near Ironton Park along U.S. Highway 550, hoping to minimize contact with humans and keep the waste from leachin...

The Ouray School District may pursue purchasing a home for sale across the street from the school, in the hopes of using it for employee housing and securing the property for future uses. The house at...