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Sixty-five percent of sewer lines within the Cortez Sanitation District are vitrified clay or concrete pipes installed some 60 years ago. A $600,000 grant from the Colorado Department of Local...

When there’s a tragedy in Cortez, the community comes together. That was clear on Saturday as hundreds came out to celebrate the life of Holly Lynn Buffington-Yake, who died in a car crash in rural...

Two unrelated crashes occurred within about 20 minutes and 150 yards of each other Friday night on U.S. Highway 491 about 4 miles north of Cortez. A minivan hit a deer at 5:30 p.m., according to...

Visitors to Mesa Verde National Park are advised to use “extreme caution” during a partial federal government shutdown that began midnight Friday. Large signs at the entrance to the visitors center...

The night before a court appearance on three cases involving drugs and assault, Derrick Jim was arrested for possession of meth and a digital scale. His child was in the passenger seat at the time...

For the third time this week, a semitrailer overturned on Wolf Creek Pass, near the hairpin turn at the overlook. Colorado State Patrol Sgt. Blake White said the truck overturned on the notorious...

Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner promised this week to continue the fight for federal marijuana legalization after the Senate failed to vote on adding his states’ right amendment to the sweeping criminal...

The Montezuma County Board of Commissioners voted to hire from within to fill the position of county administrator. After a discussion about three finalists during a special meeting Dec. 21, they...

Darrell Perez, a Cortez man suspected of burglarizing a home east of Cortez in June and taking meth into the Montezuma County Detention Center in October, pleaded guilty Thursday in 22nd Judicial...

The Bureau of Land Management Uncompahgre Field Office, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Mule Deer Foundation and a local rancher plan to rehabilitate 6,400 acres of public lands affected by the Bull...

On Tuesday night, 16-year-old country singer Chevel Shepherd of Farmington was crowned the champion of “The Voice” Season 15; she’s now the proud owner of $100,000 and a recording contract with...