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Pepperhead Restaurant owners Tess Montaño-Forth and Pete Montaño announced last week that the restaurant will close in August. Pete Montaño will be forced to retire due to health issues, and Tess...

After this school year, longtime Montezuma-Cortez High School band director Rodney Ritthaler will retire. Fresh out of college, Ritthaler started as assistant band director at M-CHS 28 years ago....

The Cortez planning and zoning board has recommended approval for a new marijuana grow operation proposed by local store The Herbal Alternative. Property owners Billy and Kathy Sanchez submitted a...

In the high desert of Castle Valley outside of Moab, Utah, famous redrock spires and mesas tower against bright blue sky. Not everyone notices another set of strange formations stretching up from...

A former Cortez police officer faces charges of official misconduct, according to a Tuesday news release from 22nd Judicial District Attorney Will Furse.Reuben Liska, a patrol officer who had...

A former Montezuma County sheriff’s deputy faces charges of official misconduct and theft after an investigation by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. The investigation concluded in late April,...

DENVER – Hikers, bikers, rafters and everyone else who enjoys Colorado’s wild areas and the animals that inhabit them may be asked in the future to put their money where their recreation is.House...

Persistence to save the intersection of County Road BB and U.S. Highway 491 has paid off for Pleasant View.Montezuma County commissioners reported Monday that they have reached a deal with Colorado...

Motorcycle riders escorted a Lewis-Arriola Elementary School student home Wednesday after reports that the student had been bullied. Bikers Sharon King, Dawn Lingo, Bill Bone and Rus Bone gathered...

The body of a Cortez man identified as Charles Oliver Evans, 26, was discovered Tuesday on private property in Montezuma County south of Denny Lake.Montezuma County sheriff Steve Nowlin said the...

Two Cortez residents narrowly escaped a house fire at 311 North Henry St. early Wednesday morning. Two bulldogs and two cats died as a result of the fire, and a Chihuahua was resuscitated by...