LiveWell Colorado has awarded Cortez its highest recognition for building a healthy community. The company’s HEAL (Healthy Eating and Active Living) Cities and Towns Campaign began in 2013 to honor...

It’s a crucial year for the Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 School District, as officials seek to gain an improved accreditation level from the Colorado Department of Education. Re-1 has been rated at the...

Classes at the Dream Machine Education and Entertainment Center will start Oct. 10 in Cortez. The center, at 100 N. Piñon Drive, will feature music and arts classes for kids and adults, led by a...

The discussion got heated Monday as representatives from the Bureau of Land Management visited the Montezuma County Commission to discuss the agency’s proposal for master lease plan for Southwest...

A Montezuma County rancher was sentenced Monday to 90 days of unsupervised probation and ordered to pay $7,697 in restitution after being convicted of shooting and killing his neighbor’s...

After finishing a six-week rehab session, Chance Davidson was a changed kid when he returned to southwest Colorado earlier this summer.Chance, 18, felt better than he ever had when he got back to...

Montezuma County has seen six drug-related overdoses this year, including two within a week in August.But this is just the beginning, Sheriff Steve Nowlin said. Heroin has arrived in Southwest...

How do you tell a story that has no beginning?That’s a question Colorado author Craig Childs ponders in the film “Waking The Mammoth,” a 2015 film directed by Larry Ruiz. The Sunflower Theatre in...

Speaking in Cortez on Saturday, Darryl Glenn said that he enjoys being an underdog and expects to become Colorado’s next U.S. senator. “I am the human equivalent of a unicorn,” he said. “I am...

A new Western furniture and home decor shop has opened at 90 N. Mildred Road in Cortez. Tenley and Mark Rees have opened the store called “... living” in the former Let it Grow greenhouse space,...