A day before the national eviction moratorium was set to end, Gov. Jared Polis gave struggling Colorado renters more time. Polis extended an order requiring landlords to give some renters 30 days noti...

A clerk at the Bayfield Speedway was stabbed and killed early Monday, and a male juvenile has been arrested in connection with her death. Bayfield Marshal Joseph McIntyre said Jadah Willmett, 21, who ...

The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for the mountains of Southwest Colorado and southeast Utah from noon to 10 p.m. today. The watch includes the San Juan Mountain areas of nor...

Forty local buyers bid on over 100 animals raised by 4-H participants during the livestock sale at the Montezuma County Fair on Saturday. The auctioneer urged on the large crowd gathered in the main b...

When pioneers came to Southwest Colorado, they came with cattle and a few sheep. Most of the pioneers hoped to "homestead," and then find out which crops would grow best. No row crops were established...

The deafening hum of chainsaws carried across the plaza at Purgatory Resort last weekend as Carve Wars raged. Carve Wars is a traveling chainsaw art competition that travels all around the country, fr...

While Tri-State Generation & Transmission’s figure of $449 million it gave to La Plata Electric Association to get out of its long-term power supply contract appears to be a non-starter, a partial con...

Project Linus of the Durango and Cortez area would like to thank the La Plata County 4-H Adventure Day Camp members for choosing us as the recipient of their community outreach project. Twenty-one 4-...

Ozark Mountain Publishing announced the release of “Where the Weeds Grow” by Colorado author Curt Melliger. “Where the Weeds Grow” is a selection of Melliger’s essays about subjects ranging from the s...