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VAIL and JOES – Dove Creek and Dolores entered Saturday’s 1A and 2A regional tournaments as the preeminent small-school volleyball programs from Southwest Colorado. The top two finishers in the...

Eli Tomac of Cortez, racing in the final 450 Supercross of the season, finished ninth Saturday in Salt Lake City and will return home in third place in the final standings. Cooper Webb, champion in...

Organizers of the Cortez Farmers Market expect more vendors and higher turnout this year as the event opens next month. The market will run on Saturdays from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. June 6 through...

A 39-year-old woman was found dead Friday night off U.S. Highway 550 near Trimble, north of Durango, after what Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials believe was a bear attack. An autopsy on the...

Vaccine providers in Colorado have now administered somewhere north of 4 million doses of coronavirus vaccine. That’s a huge number, substantially larger than the number of flu vaccine doses given...

Spine surgery requires a lot of X-rays, and that means radiation exposure, harmful to the patient and the doctors and nurses in the operating room, but for the past decade or so that has been...

University of Colorado President Mark Kennedy was formally reprimanded Thursday by faculty on the Boulder campus for a “failure of leadership with respect to diversity, equity, and inclusion.” The...

Live, in-person theater is returning to Dolores Schools after being canceled all of 2020 because of the pandemic. On May 7 and 8, the Dolores Theater Troupe will perform an adaptation of “The...

Cortez City Council member Amy Huckins has stepped down from her position with the city’s governing body. Huckins was elected to the seat in April 2020. “It is with regret that I tender my...

Two dogs stranded on a mesa cliff southeast of Towaoc were recently rescued by a Montezuma County Search and Rescue team during a nighttime mission. After receiving permission from the Ute Mountain...

At least 11 skiers were killed in traumatic crashes at Colorado’s 26 ski areas this season. That is about the average number for a ski season – “about” because it’s difficult to learn when and how...