Bird-watching tours in Montezuma County and lectures about birds will take place May 8-12 in Cortez during the 15th annual Ute Mountain-Mesa Verde Birding Festival. The festival designs activities...

A Cortez woman charged with drug distribution has been sentenced to seven years with the Colorado Department of Corrections. In a plea bargain, Jordan D. Balfour, 27, also known as Jordan Lopez,...

An organization formed to protect the interests of smallshare carbon-dioxide owners has filed a lawsuit against Montezuma County claiming overtaxation. The complex case is a spinoff of a Colorado...

“Save our history. Tell our stories” is the motto of the future Montezuma Heritage Museum , and a fundraising campaign has begun to make it a reality. A kickoff event for the effort will be from 2...

Colorado Highway 145 fully reopened to traffic shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday after a crash between a bus and semitrailer around 9:30 a.m. closed the highway. Nine people on board the bus,...

A Dolores woman jumped into a flowing irrigation ditch off County Road 22 on Sunday to rescue three deer that were struggling to escape. Lenore Sparks was walking near her home when she saw the...

The Galloping Goose No.5 is based in Dolores but has been in Durango waiting for spring trips up the Animas Valley on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. Because of avalanche danger,...

The Montezuma County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting that occurred last Friday evening in Dolores on Second Street. Nobody was injured, Undersheriff Vern Knuckles said Monday, and the...

Planning has begun on a roundup of “trespass” horses at Mesa Verde National Park, and a public adoption process will follow. But the park has denied a request by The Journal to report on and...

The Bureau of Land Management Tres Rios Field Office is seeking public comment on a proposal for new motorized and nonmotorized trails in Montezuma, La Plata and Archuleta counties. In Montezuma...

An $11.2 million highway improvement project on U.S. Highway 160/491 has begun that will add passing lanes and a left-turn lane along a 2.5-mile stretch north of Towaoc. Alternating northbound and...