The family of Ruby Gonzales wishes to thank everyone who attended her service, called, and sent cards, flowers and food. Thank you for the donations made to her memorial fund. Thank you to the doctor...

This fall, we visited the heart of the Dolores River Canyons in Western Colorado. I biked an old mining road that overlooked the Paradox Valley where Utah’s La Sal Mountains rose above the red sandsto...

The former commander of the La Plata County Jail resigned quietly in July the same day officials at the Sheriff’s Office launched an internal investigation into what were eventually determined to be s...

It is mid-January as I am writing this. I look out at the pastures and crop fields here in the North Valley and I see the tans and browns that I have looked at since November. The tractors and the hor...

Community members, officers, family and friends gathered in the Cortez City Council chambers Thursday, Jan. 16, at the Cortez Police Department’s first annual award ceremony. “We’re excited to have an...

In the latter half 2024, two Montezuma-Cortez High School alumni received Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference player of the week honors. Dimery Plewe, a junior on Fort Lewis College’s women’s go...

Mancos School District R-6 recently announced that Mancos Marshal officer Jesse Minor has been selected to be a resource officer, concluding nearly a year of work to create the position. Minor offici...

A Farmington man was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for killing one woman and injuring another. Hanson Tsosie, 34, entered a plea agreement Oct. 3 in federal court in Albuquerque, admitting t...

Pueblo Community College Southwest formally announced its 2024 employee of the year on Wednesday. Lisa Molina, the director of student services, was honored as employee of the year in the administrati...

At the Mancos Town Board meeting Jan. 8, the five trustees unanimously agreed to approve the town’s adoption of a crisis intervention program that had been under county control. In that same motion, t...