The Cortez Fire Protection District is reinstating its junior firefighter program after a brief hiatus. The program will only accept six junior firefighters at this time, and the application deadline ...

The world’s most expensive dinosaur fossil – found in 2022 in Colorado – is headed to a museum in New York City. “Apex,” a nearly complete set of stegosaurus fossils, sold for nearly $45 million at au...

Andrew Campo, a band teacher and electives team leader at the Cortez Middle School, was nominated and selected to represent Colorado in the national School Band and Orchestra Magazine’s ar...

Expected federal budget cuts in 2025 will mean more fallen trees on trails, less frequent trash collection, and fewer people cleaning bathrooms and tending to noxious weeds on the San Juan National Fo...

WASHINGTON – Colorado lawmakers from both political parties are watching and waiting to see if President Joe Biden will use his presidential powers to designate the Dolores Canyons a national monument...

A judge in Mesa County District Court denied Wednesday a request to overturn the convictions of a Durango man who has served nearly 30 years of a life sentence for the 1995 murder of a teenager. Raymo...

Case Fields, the man who in 2016 ran over his girlfriend with his truck, breaking her leg, in downtown Bayfield and fled to Texas after his arrest, was sentenced to six years in prison Friday. The se...

Wednesday, Nov. 27 10:02 a.m. A man was arrested on three warrants and remanded by the Montezuma County Combined Courts, 865 N. Park St. 3:09 p.m. An officer arrested a man on a warrant after respond...

AZTEC – There’s a buzz around Panthers basketball heading into the winter – and for good reason. Montezuma-Cortez High School brings back a ton of firepower as the Panthers seek their first winning se...