U.S. Highway 160 reopened to traffic around 7:15 p.m. Monday after a 9-mile stretch from Mancos to Cherry Creek (La Plata County Road 105) was temporarily closed because of poor visibility caused...

Eli Tomac of Cortez placed third Sunday in the fifth supercross race in Salt Lake City after a fast start that quickly fell apart in the first lap. After the gate dropped at Rice-Eccles Stadium,...

A wildfire that broke out Sunday east of Mancos has grown to more than 200 acres, prompting evacuations and a robust firefighting response. Connie Clementson, the Bureau of Land Management’s Tres...

A red flag warning about dangerous fire conditions has been issued for a portion of Southwest Colorado, including Cortez and much of southern La Plata County from noon Sunday through 8 p.m. Durango...

Muscanell Millworks was first introduced to the Gary Sinise Foundation’s Restoring Independence Supporting Empowerment program several years ago at a National Wood Flooring Association expo where...

Mesa Verde National Park has begun bait-trapping for wild horses as part of a long-term effort to habituate them for eventual capture, removal and adoption. As many as 80 “free-roaming” mustangs...

Because of the coronavirus, we are now asked to wear masks while working and shopping downtown. Westerners used to wear masks a century ago, so the fashion has come back around. Butch Cassidy and...

A wildfire Saturday afternoon closed Colorado Highway 145 from Redvale to the Colorado 62 junction near Placerville, about 15 miles northwest of Telluride. About 50 staff from the Miguel County...

Three F-words were supposed to define the last three weeks of the legislative session, a down-to-business, do-what’s-necessary lawmaking term that followed a two-month halt because of coronavirus....