If you are like most residents in Montezuma County, when you hear “conservation easement,” it sounds like a good idea, but leaves you with a lot of unanswered questions. What does it really mean regar...

I am horrified to learn that the city of Cortez is now condoning warehousing of our children! Montessori Kiva elementary students will attend school in two 1950s warehouses where there has...

Bighorn sheep numbers in Southwest Colorado are stable, but the population isn’t growing. Catastrophic die-offs caused by respiratory illness in the 1990s and early 2000s decimated some her...

Cortez was ranked No. 8 in a Top 10 list of the worst places to live in Colorado, according to Durham, N.C.-based “infotainment” Roadsnacks.net. The website, which claims it “used science t...

On a tract of land in front of the Montezuma County Sheriff’s Office on Mildred Road and Empire Street, holes about the size of a tennis balls pock the dirt every few dozen feet. Prairie do...

Amid a 15-year drought, regional ski areas and water districts are continuing to invest in cloud seeding to augment snowpack. The weather modification technology attempts to coax more snowf...

I wish to offer a heartfelt thanks to city officials, the Ertels, and any responsible persons involved in the Cortez fireworks last Saturday night. The firework display rivaled and was comparable to ...

DENVER – A Mesa County man has been diagnosed with Colorado’s first human case of West Nile virus of 2015. Also, mosquitoes collected in Larimer and Denver counties are carrying West Nile v...