In a new state assessment test, Dolores elementary students scored below the state-wide average in math and language arts. The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers...

The Montezuma-Cortez High School drama department will present “The Student-Directed One-Act Festival” Jan. 29 and 30. The four plays are a mix of comedy, philosophy of death, and Shakespearian...

Sixty ranchers attended a livestock symposium hosted by the Ute Mountain Ute Farm and Ranch Enterprise Friday. Experts from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Ute Mountain, Jicarilla, Navajo, and Hopi...

As part of President Barack Obama’s clean energy agenda, U.S. Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell announced Friday a proposal to update 30-year-old regulations to reduce flaring and venting from...

The proposed Paths to Mesa Verde — a multimodal trail connecting Cortez, Mesa Verde National Park and Mancos — made Gov. John Hickenlooper’s 16 most important trail projects for 2016. “We’ve...

A new wildfire risk-assessment group has formed to minimize impacts on the Upper Dolores River watershed and McPhee Reservoir. The goal is to identify valuable areas at high risk for wildfire...

Nearly 300 people packed the Dolores Community Center Friday for the premiere of a new documentary on the Dolores River. “River of Sorrows,” produced by Rig to Flip, did not disappoint.The...

The threatened Gunnison sage grouse used to thrive on the sage brush plains in Dolores County. But as farms, roads, and subdivisions encroached on critical habitat, their numbers diminished,...

This winter’s ample snowfall has created ideal conditions for fat-tire snow biking, the latest winter sports craze. “The stoke factor has been high with all the snow, so we’ve had good rentals,”...