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Ten days after Cortez resident Robert Marquez led Montezuma County Sheriff’s deputies on a 25-mile car chase in late November, the county jail was placed on lockdown on suspicion that he was...

A Dolores man has been charged with felony assault for allegedly punching a man with a mental disability in the face while imprisoning him in a Cortez trailer. Erik L. Genaw, 30, faces charges of...

Since 2005, Tony Hernandez has been hard at work on the Cortez backflow prevention program. By the end of this year, Hernandez, cross-connection administrator for the Cortez Public Works...

Gov. Jared Polis has requested that lawmakers set aside more than $480,000 that would allow Durango driver’s license officials to offer licenses to undocumented immigrants, an expansion of a...

Beetle kill is spreading farther west into the San Juan Mountains and now dropping down into the corridor between Durango and Silverton, according to a new report from the Colorado State Forest...

The city of Durango has been given a strip of property to build a small addition to the Animas River Trail behind Natural Grocers in the 1100 block of Camino del Rio. The addition is proposed to...

Firewood was scattered across U.S. Highway 160/491 on Thursday morning after a Nissan Altima and red pickup truck collided. Colorado State Patrol Sgt. James Saunders said both southbound drivers...

The Dolores school board decided on a salary range and benefits package for the new superintendent as it moves forward in its search process. After deliberating, the District RE-4A Board of...

The Colorado Department of Transportation is conducting avalanche mitigation today on Colorado Highway 145 from north of Rico to Ophir. The highway could have intermittent closures of 30 minutes or...

World War II may seem a distant memory relegated to history textbooks and stories of America’s Greatest Generation. But the memory lives on in Montezuma County for 93-year-old veteran Joseph...

World War II may seem a distant memory relegated to history textbooks and stories of America’s Greatest Generation. But the memory lives on in Montezuma County for 93-year-old veteran Joseph...