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Superintendent Lori Haukeness announced Wednesday that the Montezuma-Cortez district is close to moving off the accreditation accountability clock after an estimated overall 6-point improvement....

KSJD Radio plans to provide outdoor seating to guests at the Sunflower Theatre in the near future, but those plans might not include installing a parklet on the street. In a Cortez City Council...

Cortez firefighters put out a brush fire, apparently caused by a two-car crash, near the intersection of U.S. Highway 160 and County Road F on Friday evening. The highway was closed at 6:26 p.m.,...

The Cortez Recreation Center has hired two new personal trainers and three new fitness instructors for the fall season, its largest increase in fitness staff in years. In a meeting Thursday,...

A statewide council is looking at how to increase the use of open educational resource materials in colleges to address the high cost of textbooks. The council plans to create a digital repository...

Guns, marijuana and Mexican lager allegedly were in the mix in an accidental shooting in the Vista Verde Village trailer park east of Cortez on Aug. 25, according to the Montezuma County Sheriff’s...

The Animas Museum is marking the service of hundreds of people from La Plata County who served in World War I this year with activities and a new exhibit in honor of the 100th anniversary of the...

A podcast series about the history of ancestral Puebloans in the Four Corners region launched Friday with three introductory episodes, according to a news release from Mesa Verde National Park. The...

Associated Press PINEDALE, Wyo. — Authorities have recovered the body of a man who fell to his death while climbing in Wyoming’s Wind River Range. Sublette County sheriff’s officials say...

MONTROSE – A former Dolores County sheriff’s deputy has been arrested on suspicion of child sexual abuse involving five boys at various times over the past decade. Bail for Joshua Hemphill, 25, of...

Cortez motocross rider Eli Tomac won the 450MX class championship of the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross series Saturday in Indiana. Tomac needed 22 points to secure the title, and he clinched the...