Dear Editor: I am writing in response to Jeff Lindberg’s letter in the Aug. 27 edition. My husband and I live in Ouray County primarily because we love to hike. We have lived here for eight years, but ...

Ouray County business owners bent the ear of U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper on Friday, sharing stories of declining profits and mass cancellations in the wake of the Gold Mountain Fire in the hopes the D ...

A new team assumed command of the Gold Mountain Fire response over the weekend, ending a 55-day streak of management by three different federal incident management teams. A Type 3 incident management ...

Editor’s note: We have continued the tradition of including Q&A profiles of new teachers in the Ridgway and Ouray school districts in the newspaper this year, to help introduce these new leaders to th ...

The death of a pilot whose firefighting helicopter crashed into Silver Jack Reservoir last month has been ruled an accident by a Grand Junction medical examiner, according to an autopsy report ...

Polis: Federal funding needed to help pay for $17M in damages from Gold Mountain, Aspen Acres fires Federal, state and local officials pushed this week for President Donald Trump to issue a disaster ...

A new team assumed command of the Gold Mountain Fire response over the weekend, ending a 55-day streak of management by three different federal incident management teams. A Type 3 incident management ...

A new team assumed command of the Gold Mountain Fire response over the weekend, ending a 55-day streak of management by three different federal incident management teams. A Type 3 incident management ...

Crews from Haynes Excavation began work last week to repair and protect areas prone to flooding and debris flows beneath the Gold Mountain Fire burn scar. The $2.8 million Emergency Watershed Protect ...

A new team assumed command of the Gold Mountain Fire response over the weekend, ending a 55-day streak of management by three different federal incident management teams. A Type 3 incident management ...

Thursday, August 20 Community book club, noon-1 p.m. at the Ridgway Public Library. Bring lunch and discuss "Whistler" by Ann Patchett. Friday, August 21 Historic True Grit Walking Tour, 3 p.m., free.

Thursday, August 20 Community book club, noon-1 p.m. at the Ridgway Public Library. Bring lunch and discuss "Whistler" by Ann Patchett. Friday, August 21 Historic True Grit Walking Tour, 3 p.m., free.