In this year’s municipal election, five candidates are running for four open trustee positions on the Mancos town board. It is Mancos’s first contested election in several years, after five...

More than 50 local government officials, candidates for office and residents filled the Cortez City Council chambers on Tuesday to discuss the goal of broadband for Montezuma County. County and...

Montezuma County’s 11 voting precincts will hold caucuses on March 6 to elect the Republican and Democrat delegates who will organize each party’s activities in the 2018 elections. Registered...

The final speaker in Cortez’s TEZ Talks series will be a former college football player born without legs. At 7 p.m. on March 2, First National Bank in Cortez will host its third free speaking...

The Dolores Ranger District is burning slash piles on about 250 acres north of Mancos this week as part of the cleanup effort after a summer thinning project. District Fire Management Officer Pat...

The Southwest Colorado regional director for Sen. Cory Gardner paid the town of Mancos a visit on Friday. Ann McCoy Harold, of Gardner’s Durango office, met with Town Administrator Heather Alvarez...

One suspect died in a shootout with a Montezuma County Sheriff deputy Thursday afternoon near the Utah border. Two others were arrested. There were no reports of injured deputies. Montezuma County...

The city of Cortez will host a public forum Feb. 20 about the need for broadband in the area. Mayor Karen Sheek announced the forum on Feb. 2 as a way to educate the candidates on the issues...

In this year’s municipal election, eight people are running for five open Cortez City Council positions. Incumbents Jill Carlson and Orly Lucero are both running for their second terms. The other...

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for the San Juan Mountains starting 5 p.m. Sunday. An alert sent out on Saturday afternoon predicted heavy snow and high winds for the...

During its Wednesday meeting, the Mancos town board voted to approve the purchase of two new vehicles for the Mancos Marshal’s Office. Marshal Jason Spruell said two out of his department’s patrol...