Cortez

Gasoline and propane prices are going up all over Colorado, and Montezuma County is no exception. And though rising gas prices make for a more expensive commute, higher propane prices hit home...

Ali Youngblood sat in the driver’s seat of her blue Ford roadster, inching toward a start line drawn across the Bonneville Salt Flats. It was Day 4 four of Speed Week, a series of speed trials held...

The Fort Lewis College Board of Trustees will have some new faces come 2017. Gov. John Hickenlooper appointed Dianne Pacheco-Van Voorhees and Richard Kaufman to fill the seats vacated by Chairwoman...

Bird-watchers in the Cortez area had a field day with the annual Christmas Bird Count on Monday. For more than a decade, Cortez has participated in the nationwide bird count, which helps the...

The Piñon Pipeline, touted as the Southwest’s version of the Dakota Access Pipeline, has perished, even before the real battle over it began. In mid-December, the project’s proponents formally...

Chris Marona’s photo “Riders on the Edge of Night,” taken outside Mancos, has been chosen to be included in the U.S. Arts in Embassies program conducted by the U.S. State Department as part of its...

The Cortez Middle School parking lot can fill up fast on Monday and Wednesday evenings in the winter. Not for basketball or wrestling – but soccer. Although it’s not technically in season, area...

Housing initiatives, building remodels, road maintenance and other infrastructure often are paid for with grants from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs, but the department’s funding pool is...

Holiday recipe: Combine 30 volunteers, a commercial kitchen, 25 turkeys, hundreds of potatoes, 20-gallon pots of green beans, a vat of gravy, and stuffing and rolls stretching to the horizon. Add:...

The Christmas Eve storm is expected to depart Montezuma County by Monday morning and be followed by a gradual warming trend. The high temperature on Monday is forecast to be about 30 degrees, and...