Cortez

Miller Middle School is warning parents of an active mountain lion near the school and surrounding neighborhood in Durango. The mountain lion has killed deer on Miller Middle School’s campus at...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to approve a joint resolution disapproving of the stream protection rule. The Interior Department’s rule barred coal mining companies from dumping...

SHIPROCK – Over the years, Anthony Lee, a Navajo medicine man, has watched the sacred land around Chaco Canyon where he gathers herbs and performs ceremonies slowly turn into an industrial...

Several proposed routes for the Paths to Mesa Verde trail were laid out for public viewing during a packed meeting at the Cortez Recreation Center on Wednesday. Trail alternatives extend between...

After four years, a friends group of Canyons of the Ancients National Monument is expected to dissolve.The Southwest Colorado Canyons Alliance formed in 2013 to assist with projects benefiting the...

Public lands were the focus of a sometimes contentious discussion at a Montezuma County Commission town hall meeting this week. The two-hour meeting Monday at Mancos Town Hall was the third in a...

The Cortez City Council on Tuesday awarded Advanced Network Management Inc. a $160,000 contract for the construction of an information technology infrastructure. Cortez-based Data Safe Services has...

Addressing a widely circulated rumor that surfaced this week, Southwest Colorado Community College President Patty Erjavec said Wednesday that the school is not leaving Mancos. “Pueblo Community...

Tucked into a secluded cove of McPhee Reservoir lies the once-popular Sage Hen area of the San National Forest.But since it was closed to camping in 2006, the recreation area near Dolores has lost...

A fire late Tuesday night completely destroyed a barn near Arriola, according to a report from the Montezuma County Sheriff’s Office. Emergency personnel responded to the 15000 block of Road 21,...

Nine people were sentenced Tuesday in Montezuma County Court in connection with alcohol-related driving convictions. Judge James Denvir, a retired judge from Archuleta County, was presiding in...