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About 150 Towaoc residents young and old attended a candlelit vigil Wednesday night to mourn and honor the two teenagers who took their lives over the long weekend. The vigil at the Ute Mountain...

There are plenty of questions regarding a potential bandstand at Montezuma Park, but Cortez City Council on Tuesday gave it the nod to move forward with a rezone. The Cortez Retail Enhancement...

The Cortez City Council on Tuesday added the Montezuma County Courthouse to the city of Cortez Register of Historic Structures, Sites and Districts. Both the original 1937 structure and the 1960...

A drop in drought intensity for Montezuma County, combined with mountain snowpack tracking near 100 percent of average, bodes well for the 2019 irrigation season. The Four Corners area has been the...

The wild horses of the federally managed Spring Creek Basin herd in Disappointment Valley are blissfully unaware of the government shutdown, and have not been impacted, according to a volunteer....

The Cortez City Council on Tuesday brainstormed the possibility of a city-provided day care service. City Manager John Dougherty proposed the concept in a memo to City Council. At the workshop on...

Two rural legislators want Colorado to become the first state in the country to offer a government-run health plan to combat the rising costs of health insurance. Rep. Marc Catlin, R-Montrose, and...

Over the long weekend, two Cortez Middle School students died by suicide, and one district high school student attempted suicide, according to school district officials. “Anytime that we lose a...

About a third of teenagers across Colorado are experiencing prolonged feelings of sadness or hopelessness, according to state data. The 2017 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey found 31.2 percent of...

A new hotel just south of Purgatory Resort was unanimously approved Tuesday by La Plata County commissioners. The hotel is slated to be located in what is now the Gelande overflow parking lot on...

A man suspected of trying to break into a home by crawling through a dog door was kicked in the face and later arrested, police said Tuesday in a Facebook post. The incident occurred Saturday in...