The Cortez Public Library hosts Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, poet laureate of the Western Slope for 2015-2017, on Friday, Jan. 20. Trommer’s poems have appeared in magazines including O Magazine and...

Carute Roma promises to bring the party to the Sunflower Theatre in Cortez on Saturday with its original tunes and dance-oriented Gypsy-punk styles. Carute Roma, or “Gypsy Wagon,” combines classic...

U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, will serve on the House Committee on Natural Resources during the 115th Congress. The announcement came Friday, after the House Republican Steering Committee met...

The Moab office of the Bureau of Land Management is looking for volunteers who like hiking and birds of prey to participate in its annual raptor survey. Field training will be provided. Training...

Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye applauded more than 400 supporters and tribal leaders who gathered at the Monument Valley Welcome Center on Saturday, Jan. 7, to celebrate the designation of...

Rangers at Mesa Verde National Park will be leading a guided hike focusing on winter survival strategies used by the Ancestral Puebloan people at the park on Jan. 21 at 11 a.m. The guided hike is...

Smoke inside the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses church at 1304 Empire Street in Cortez caused an evacuation Sunday morning.There were no injuries and the building did not catch fire. Services...

Former Osprey Packs CEO Tom Barney has joined Durango-based consulting firm Verde Brand Communications, according to a news release from the company. Barney will be the company’s chief operating...

A man was critically injured after being shot New Years Eve in Towaoc, according to law enforcement officials. Few details have been released about the incident, which is being handled by the...

P. Edmund Razma, M.D., has joined the Southwest Medical Group as a full-time specialist in pulmonary disease and sleep medicine. Razma earned his medical degree from the University of Illinois and...