Cortez

The environmental activist group Great Old Broads for Wilderness has started a new chapter in Montezuma County. The national organization, based in Durango, has 36 chapters – mostly in the Western...

Mancos watercolor artist Jan Wright will display two of her works at the Cortez Public Library through July. Featured paintings include two five-foot watercolors of Cliff Palace and Spruce Tree...

Harvey Leake, great-grandson of John Wetherill, will discuss the activities of his ancestors and their archaeological investigations in the area on June 16, at 7 p.m. at the Visitor and Research...

The Cortez Farmers Market had perfect weather for its opening day on Saturday, as several dozen local vendors set up shop on Main Street amid sunny skies and temperatures in the 80s. Visitors and...

Two Cortez rodeo enthusiasts have spent the weeks leading up to the Ute Mountain Roundup Rodeo promoting their favorite sport among younger children. Tegan Duncan and Cassie Finley are this year’s...

The Dolores River below McPhee dam has boatable flows again after a brief hiatus to fill the reservoir.Flows between 800 and 1,200 cubic feet per second are expected through Sunday, and could...

From 2000 to 2003, a series of wildfires ripped through Mesa Verde National Park, burning about 24,000-acres – nearly half of the park’s old growth forest. Now, almost two decades later, park...

The 69th Annual Ute Mountain Roundup Rodeo starts this week, and rodeo chairman Bentley Colbert promises another weekend of quality, entertaining shows. “It should be all right,” Colbert said....

The Montezuma County Sheriff’s Office has concluded its investigation into the death of a man who apparently ended his life near Mancos in early May. Sheriff’s deputies responded to a home on...

Dolores High School junior Bri Suckla has qualified for the National High School Finals Rodeo in Gillette, Wyoming, for the third year in a row. Suckla will compete in breakaway roping at the...