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The Cortez budget for 2018 began to take shape during a Tuesday meeting and workshop as the council prepared for its upcoming final vote. Eight city departments requested funding for next year in a...

In a meeting Tuesday night, the Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 School Board appointed new officers, briefly discussed the budget and held a meet-and-greet session with the audience. Sherri Wright was...

The Sunflower Theatre at KSJD will present the comedy play “Savannah Sipping Society” on four nights in December. According to a news release from the theater, the Sunflower Troupe production is at...

Cortez art shops Home & Range and Clementine Design Studio will hold a joint open house on Friday to benefit the Montezuma Land Conservancy. Rosie Carter, who owns Home & Range, will debut a...

The Montezuma Valley Irrigation Co. is interested in buying back Totten Lake to provide irrigation service for McElmo Canyon. The reservoir, just east of Cortez, is owned by the Dolores Water...

Southwest Colorado could see precipitation this weekend, but the throes of winter still seem to be at bay for the foreseeable future. According to the National Weather Service in Grand Junction,...

More details emerged Wednesday about an armed carjacking reported earlier this week at Fort Lewis College, but according to law enforcement, the suspect remains at large. “Fort Lewis and Durango...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Michael Bennet sharply criticized Senate Republicans’ proposed tax bill for catering to the wealthy and shortchanging the middle class. Bennet, D-Colo., fielded questions during a...

The Dolores Ranger District is accepting public comments on a preliminary environmental assessment for the Boggy Draw Trails expansion project. The project would add about 25 miles of nonmotorized...

A Cortez house sitter involved in several identity theft cases was found dead in her home on Nov. 21, according to police. Montezuma County Coroner George Deavers said the cause of death had not...

President Donald Trump will travel to Utah on Monday to lay out his plans to cut the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, according to individuals briefed on the...