Ouray Wine, Chocolate & Cheese Festival to celebrate 10th year

Herald Staff Report Ouray’s Wine, Chocolate and Cheese Festival is celebrating its 10th consecutive year with a five-course wine dinner Dec. 7, followed by the festival itself Dec...

Highway 550 between Ouray and Ridgway reopened

Closure related to police investigation

Officials ask contractors to resolve Hot Springs pool issues

OURAY – Managers of the newly renovated Ouray Hot Springs pool are working to keep the water temperatures hot. The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reported that swimmers expecting t...

Blasting on Red Mountain Pass to begin Wednesday

Blasting on Red Mountain Pass will begin Wednesday and continue for 2½ weeks, causing delays of up to about 30 minutes. Operations will occur mostly from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the C...

In Ouray, ice is hot

Weekend’s winter wonderland welcomed worldwide

Western Colorado river runs orange

Water has similar color to Animas after Gold King Mine spill

Climb inside the ice box

Ouray climbing festival one of a kind

Locals rock-solid in Hardrock lottery

Eight countries, 26 states and at least seven local runners will be represented in the 2015 Hardrock 100, which will be held July 10-12. The lottery to determine the field of 152 ...

Durango still tops on lists

Durango keeps making admiring lists, and this week, it made two in two days, which may be a record – even for us. Liftopia polled “ski bums” to identify North America’s 10 Most Li...

Mine owners blamed in deaths of 2 men

Report calls fatalities ‘entirely preventable’

Feds: Quray mine warned before accident

DENVER – Federal mine inspectors say operators were warned numerous times of potential danger at the Revenue-Virginius Mine days before two men died of carbon-monoxide poisoning in 2013. ...

Sen. Bennet comes to the rescue for area business

Economic hardship caused by pass rockslide to be eased with loans