The health care system in Colorado will be overburdened unless people try to prevent the need for medical assistance in the first place by staying home, a chief medical officer said during a telephone...

Montezuma County agencies are organizing efforts to meet food needs as restaurants and businesses close and residents stock up at grocery stores. The COVID-19 Mutual Aid group is facilitati...

San Miguel County in Southwest Colorado had only one confirmed case of the new coronavirus as of Thursday night. But already it has sent a handful of people with severe respiratory ailments to hospita...

It has been more than two weeks since Gov. Jared Polis announced the first COVID-19 case in Colorado, and nearly two months since Washington state reported its first case. If time since the...

The town of Rico on Wednesday initiated shelter-in-place regulations to decrease the potential spread of the coronavirus. The decision came the same day nearby San Miguel County Health Depa...

Montezuma County declared a local health disaster emergency this week in response to the threat of the coronavirus. The COVID-19 virus was declared a global pandemic March 11. The U.S. and ...

The city of Cortez has joined other governmental entities in declaring a state of emergency, which will allow the city to access additional state and federal funds. City Council unanimously...

The Journal staff is working all hours throughout the Four Corners to bring you the stories that inform you about the coronavirus pandemic. Our staff writers are on the ground in Southw...

Results of a COVID-19 test performed on a La Plata County man after his death had not been completed as of Thursday, according to the Coroner’s Office. The man, identified as a local reside...

The Community Emergency Relief Fund has been activated in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, according to the Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado. The past two weeks have seen s...