A municipal moratorium on retail marijuana sales could be extended through the end of the year after a public hearing next month.Cortez City Attorney Mike Green recently sent council members a memo...

Beleaguered property owner Ray McCarty told Montezuma County commissioners on Monday that he would continue his fight against the oil cartels. “I’m going to hammer it as long as I can hammer it,”...

A majority of municipal leaders have indicated they’d like voters to decide if retail marijuana sales should be legal in Cortez, while a minority insists that voters have decided the issue. At the...

The Montezuma County Tax Assessor’s office is in a state of “critical impasse” because of an unmanageable and unreliable database system. County information technology director Jim McClain broke...

One in 10 Colorado third-graders performed unsatisfactory on state reading exams this year. The rate was nearly double for third-graders in the Montezuma-Cortez School District. According to...

An elderly man from Dolores narrowly escaped a bench warrant for his arrest Thursday because of an alert courtroom bailiff. “Mr. Peltier has failed to appear,” Chief District Court Judge Doug...

Municipal leaders have allotted 25 minutes during a workshop session tonight to discuss licensing of retail marijuana within the City of Cortez. On April 28, The Cortez Journal sent a 10-question...

Hundreds of people crashed Osprey’s spring local-only sale last week, helping to benefit two area nonprofits with $2,100 each. Five percent of the proceeds from the sale on Friday, May 9, will be...

The Montezuma County landfill has taken a proactive measure to help save taxpayers any unnecessary expense when disposing of nonhazardous waste from the Red Arrow mill in Mancos. Landfill manager...