Ouray’s affordable housing issues aren’t new, but they came into the spotlight more than ever before in 2021 as locals clamored for changes amid climbing prices and limited availability. The city hone...

Editor's note: The story of the vaccine arriving in Ouray County was the top story of 2021. This week's edition features 10 top stories from the past year in review. More than 350 Ouray County residen...

The arrival and availability of COVID vaccines brought a gradual end to most of the state’s pandemic restrictions on businesses and gatherings, allowing Ouray County restaurants, stores and events to ...

Ouray County is ending 2021 with a moratorium on new marijuana cultivation facilities, enacted nearly seven months ago when commissioners cited a need to revise rules governing where and how these bus...

Ouray County benefited from progress on many fronts in 2021 — the distribution of a vaccine, the lifting of various health orders and restrictions and public and private efforts to begin making a den...

Ouray County is facing an allegation of age discrimination in selecting its new county attorney from an unsuccessful applicant seven years older than the attorney commissioners hired. In a charge file...

More than five years after Ridgway was selected for an affordable housing project, ground broke on the Space to Create building this summer. When complete, there will be 30 apartments available to ren...

Photo courtesy Lou Hart How does Santa determine who's been naughty and who's been nice this year? By reading the Plaindealer, of course! The jolly old elf caught up on local happenings outside the Ou...

ART SHOW: Ouray County Community Art Show at the Ridgway Library during normal hours. Nov. 12 through Jan. 12. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 a.m. and every Wednesday nig...

Ouray County commissioners are urging federal officials to rethink a proposed grazing plan for domestic sheep that could affect wild sheep populations. Commissioners approved letters to the Bureau of ...

A mobile home on County Road 22A burned Wednesday morning and is considered a total loss. No one was injured in the fire. The home was fully engulfed in flames when members of the Log Hill Volunteer F...

A second Ridgway development project has received a Colorado Community Revitalization Grant from the state, while a major Ouray development has received a loan from the State Housing Board to purchase...

The city of Ouray will end 2021 hauling in a record amount of sales tax revenue for the second year in a row. The city this month raked in more than $246,000 in receipts from October sales, an 8% incr...

Nine months after hiring the county's first full-time public information officer, commissioners met with her to discuss the roles and responsibilities of the position. Jennifer Peterson was hired in M...

Editor's note: The Ouray County Plaindealer is publishing this story about mental health issues as part of the Colorado News Collaborative, or COLab, the nonprofit that unites more than 160 communiti...

A mobile home on County Road 22A burned this morning and is a total loss. The home was fully engulfed in flames when members of the Log Hill Volunteer Fire Department, the Montrose Fire Department, t...

ART SHOW: Ouray County Community Art Show at the Ridgway Library during normal hours. Nov. 12 through Jan. 12. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Every Friday and Saturday morning at 9 a.m. and every Wednesday nig...

Ouray County is continuing to see an increase in demand for COVID testing and increased infection rates – with a 12.1% positivity rate as of Tuesday. The increased number of cases and need for testing...

A Ridgway man has been arrested in a case stemming from a fatal accident in September in Wyoming. Barrie Bloom, 68, was arrested at his home at 1030 Charles St., on a warrant from Rock Springs, for al...

Ouray County Attorney Leo Caselli and Commissioner Lynn Padgett successfully lobbied the State Board of Land Commissioners to formally recognize designated public rights-of-way on County Road 17 last ...