The Montezuma-Cortez and Dolores High School football teams met at Panther Stadium on Wednesday for a friendly seven-on-seven contest. Both squads have been working on different things thro...

Bri Suckla, Stormi Pitman and Kody Gregory have returned from the National High School Rodeo Finals in Gillette, Wyoming. The NHSFR, which claims to be the world’s largest rodeo featuring a...

The Montezuma County Fair starts this weekend, and organizers want to get as much of the community involved as possible. “We want it to be a week of family fun all week long,” said fair boa...

The Cortez City Council is endorsing Boutique Air for its EAS (essential airline services) needs. This recommendation was made by the council with no notice to or input from the community. I think tha...

“The best darn change-maker I ever met in my entire life.” So said Bill Clinton in making the case for his wife at the Democratic National Convention. Considering that Bernie Sanders ran a...

On June 27, hundreds of people packed the Oakland City Council meeting where a proposal to ban the transport of coal through the California city was up for a vote. Speakers on both sides of the issue ...

In the late 1890s, when coal mines began operating in Western mountain communities, miners took caged canaries underground to alert them to danger. If potentially deadly gases, such as carbon monoxide...

Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, joined 56 other members of Congress on Wednesday in signing and sending a letter to Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell asking her to withdraw the Bureau of Land Manage...

Six games, 12 days and over 2,700 miles. That’s what the Southwest Colorado Youth Baseball Senior All-Star team has been up to recently. After clinching the Colorado Senior State...