Mountain Middle School has been awarded the John Irwin School of Excellence Award. The award is given to the highest performing schools in the State of Colorado that demonstrate exceptional academic a...

Starting Friday, it’s Snowdown! The 45th annual cabin-fever reliever will run through Feb. 4 this year, featuring all of the vents we’ve come to love: The Follies, Light Parade and more. For the comp...

Sunday 7:50 p.m. A person driving south near the 1400 block of South Camino del Rio was arrested for driving under the influence. 10:23 p.m. A person near the former Olde Tymer’s Cafe building...

A Ridgway man cited Saturday in connection with the theft of over 200 copies of the Ouray County Plaindealer says he stole the newspapers because he felt angry on behalf of the victim of an alleged ra...

On Friday, Jan. 19, U.S. Magistrate Judge James Candelaria ordered that Lyndreth Hemp Wall be placed into a halfway house in Denver, with a hearing on Monday to make the move final. Wall will remain a...

An Aztec woman allegedly shot and killed her husband Sunday evening in their home on County Road 3016. The San Juan County Sheriff’s Office was notified of the shooting when a 911 call came in from Je...

La Plata County Assessor Carrie Woodson is giving farmers and ranchers a heads up that her office has begun requesting information to verify the agricultural classification of land. Unlike residential...

A man went missing in Mesa Verde National Park last week, according to a missing person alert from the Colorado Bureau Investigation. Thomas Irwin, 73, was last seen in the park wearing a gray fleece ...

Renovations and a name change are coming to the Days Inn by Wyndham on north Main Avenue. The hotel, which has been closed for the last few months, will reopen in the fall of 2024 under the name Bound...

Colorado state budget writers are in a race against the clock to spend $1.5 billion in leftover federal pandemic aid before the end of 2024 thanks to new guidance from the U.S. Treasury Department. Th...