For the first time in more than 60 years, the Galloping Goose No. 5 will make a winter-time excursion.Managers of the restored rail bus have partnered with the Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge...

Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service specialists recommend mitigation measures to counter the risk of fire in the Dolores River Basin, including Dolores and West Fork. “We’ve mapped...

The Montezuma County Historical Society is in a game of musical chairs as Cortez and county officials prepare to move into new offices and sell old ones. The historical society depended on City...

The Cortez Animal Shelter depends on annual funding from Montezuma County to operate, the commissioners learned last week. While tightening the 2017 budget in the face of shrinking oil and gas tax...

Above-average snowpack in the Dolores Basin bodes well for McPhee Reservoir, farmers and recreational boaters on the Lower Dolores River. Snotels in the basin show snowpack at 132 percent of the...

Got a drawer or cabinet with unused or expired prescription drugs?To avoid them getting in the wrong hands, Southwest Memorial Hospital is now a drop-off point for a medication take-back program...

Longtime locals, brace yourself: New management is looking to reopen the long-abandoned M&M truck stop. The once-popular restaurant, gas station and convenience store at the intersection of U.S....

Recreation groups met with federal and local officials on Tuesday to push for biking, hiking and horseback trails on three Bureau of Land Management parcels along U.S. Highway 160 north of Mancos....

The Dolores River Boating Advocates will hold their annual river permit party on Jan. 20, 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the Dolores Community Center.There will be a silent auction with river and outdoor...

The new director for the Dolores Public Library brings 15 years of experience and a passion for small towns, skiing and travel.Virginia Mattingly comes to Dolores via Angel Fire, New Mexico, where...

Like her boss Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin, Dolores deputy Tish Strawn has a love of horses, but on a smaller scale.While Nowlin uses mounted patrols for town festivals, Strawn started...