Tobie Baker
Position: Staff reporter

Giving Tree deadline Dec. 6

Program launches on Thanksgiving

Montezuma County gets a boost for Farm to School projects

State board gives $40,000 grant

EPA's Red Arrow report due Dec. 4, may ease residents' concerns

An Environmental Protection Agency assessment on illegal gold milling operations in Mancos will be released on Dec. 4. Operations at the illegal, unpermitted Red Arrow gold mill o...

Cronk trial set for April

Ex-undersheriff faces 17 felony charges

Sheriff's office may face wrongful-death claim

The family of an inmate who died while in custody at the Montezuma County jail is expected to file a wrongful-death claim early next year. Durango attorney Joel Fry has confirmed ...

Sheriff’s office may face wrongful-death claim

The family of an inmate who died while in custody at the Montezuma County jail is expected to file a wrongful-death claim early next year. Durango attorney Joel Fry has confirmed ...

Cronk embezzlement trial set for April

Former undersheriff, charged with 17 counts of felony embezzlement, is in Arizona

City Hall weighs marijuana, budget issues

Dispensary looks to triple the size of its production operations, memo says

Racial, sexist remarks in M-CHS student paper cause backlash

Two Montezuma-Cortez High School students made provocative remarks in the school newspaper when asked what they would be and why if reincarnated. On the opinion page of the Novemb...

SWCC mobile labs hit the road

A new $300,000 state-of-the-art welding lab from Southwest Colorado Community College will soon arrive at the largest copper mine in the Four Corners. At a press conference Monday...

Arsonist pleads guilty to Roatcap fire, avoids jail

A Dolores man facing more than four decades in prison opted to plead guilty today to escape any jail time in connection to the 2012 Roatcap Fire. Accepted by District Court Judge ...

Suicide note questions jail policy

“MCSO have you ever heard of a suicide watch?” According to a 16-page Montezuma County Sheriff’s Office incident report recently obtained by the Cortez Journal from a concerned c...