California’s Assembly has greatly advanced the availability of right-to-die provisions with its approval last week of a bill that will allow the terminally ill to receive a doctor-approved end-of-life...

WASHINGTON – Amid all the new government programs and tax cuts that have been proposed by the various presidential candidates – or will be as the campaign unfolds – there lurks a nasty statistic that ...

According to a recent Cortez Journal article, 11.1 percent of Southwest Colorado citizens are still without health insurance even under the Affordable Care Act. Now imagine a health care payment syste...

Two weeks ago three assistant coaches “sort of” resigned from the Montezuma-Cortez High School football staff. A fourth secretly convinced the athletic director and administration to unjustifiably fir...

I am strongly opposed to the gas lease sale of parcel 7379 in Montezuma County. This 720-acre parcel is at the east end of Road Z, in sections 11 and 14, just half a mile from the dam at McPhee Reserv...

For The Cortez Journal Ranger Paul Morey will discuss the natural history of elk and their management within and around Mesa Verde on Friday, Sept. 18, 2015, at the Far View Lodge in Mesa V...

For The Cortez Journal The Colorado State University Extension’s annual apple “U-Pick” harvest is Saturday, Sept. 19, from 9 to 11 a.m. at the CSU Southwestern Colorado Research Station, ab...

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Sunday, Aug. 23 1:19 a.m. A motorist was observed weaving on County Road 25. A pursuit ended on the 25000 block of County Road F.6. After the driver refused a request from deputies to searc...