The Cortez City Council voted to push a final reading and hearing on the city’s land use code update through the end of January – giving residents an extra 3½ months to submit comments. The code...

A local trash hauling company on Road H will be allowed to continue operations under a commercial rezoning and high impact permit approved this week by Montezuma County commissioners in a 2-1 vote....

Eager to test themselves against many of the top prep golfers in the state of Colorado, three members of the Montezuma-Cortez High School golf team traveled to Colorado Springs to compete in the...

When the Montezuma-Cortez High School football team (1-4 overall, 0-1 IML) takes the field today for its homecoming game against Alamosa High School (3-2 overall, 0-1 in IML), it will be a heavy...

When the Mancos High School football team takes its home field on Oct. 11, it will do so against a Sanford High School team that has outscored its opponents 210-32 this season while amassing a...

The Journal Snow fell Thursday in the San Juan Mountains of Southwest Colorado, giving an area south of Telluride its first dusting of snow this fall. A strong cold front dropped into Southwest...

The Santa Rita Water Reclamation Facility, the largest construction project in city history, is nearing completion and sending cleaner water into the Animas River. But the smell of human waste...

The Montezuma County commissioners are continuing their effort to assert management rights of historic trails and roads on federal lands, and are also considering raising the budget to pave more...

Mancos is gearing up for its own school board election this year, and the competition is steep – eight candidates are vying for three seats. Candidates gathered in the new school cafeteria Monday...

Hundreds of brave souls trekked through the fields of Sacred Song Ranch this past weekend for the first-ever production of the Purple Fox Conundrum. The “Intrepid Travelers” who ventured out were...