Jury trials in Montezuma and Dolores counties have been suspended, and court appearances must again be held virtually because of a surge in COVID-19 cases in the region, according an order from 22nd J...

Winter may be a couple of months away, but Southwest Colorado got its first taste of cold and snow Tuesday, with reports of over a foot of snow in the high country. Scott Stearns, a meteorologist with...

The Durango High School and Montezuma-Cortez volleyball game that was originally scheduled for Tuesday night has been postponed until Oct. 25. DHS head coach Kelley Rifilato said the game had to be po...

An outbreak last week of about a dozen COVID-19 cases at the Montezuma County Detention Center led Sheriff Steve Nowlin to take action to limit the intake of new inmates, The Journal has learned. Thi...

Does Colorado’s new congressional map unconstitutionally dilute the voting power of Latino communities? That is a question the Colorado Supreme Court will face as it considers whether to approve the m...

Axis Health System was one of 19 Colorado health organizations to receive a grant from the COVID-19 stimulus package, directed at supporting construction, expansion and modernization of health care ce...

Tom McCracken could always depend on temperatures to dip below freezing around mid-September, killing his potato vines and ending the growing season in Saguache County. “We used to count on a frost by...

The Colorado Independent Redistricting Commission released its third, and likely last, drafts of its state legislative redistricting maps Oct.5 that would separate the northwestern portion of Montezum...