A Cortez couple battling Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is planning a therapeutic and educational tour of Western Colorado with their three donkeys. Wolf and Rachel Karneffel will soon emba...

Wednesday, Feb. 18 9:15 a.m. Two people were issued summons for consuming alcohol in the Cortez City Park after an officer witnessed them drinking Taaka Vodka. Thursday, Feb. 19 ...

DENVER – A federal judge on Monday determined that regulators did not adequately assess the environmental impact from a proposed expansion of the Navajo Mine in New Mexico. Farmington-based...

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At just 21 years old, Kaelee Allmon has had a few hurdles to overcome in her quest to become a firefighter. The biggest was her size. At just 5-feet-2 inches, Allmon became the first full-t...

A new conservation easement northwest of Dove Creek is being touted as an example of a grassroots effort to protect the Gunnison sage grouse. Landowner Lenore Seltenreich partnered with the...

Vital to settling the American West, mustangs today are helping Colorado inmates find a new lease on life via horse training. Once saddle-trained, some mustangs are dispatched to U.S. Border Patrol ag...

Starting next school year, incoming high school students in Montezuma County will be required to have two chicken pox, or varicella, vaccinations – a change from the previous requirement of one vaccin...

Despite a legal opinion that a closed voir dire process is unconstitutional, more than half the potential jurors summoned in a sex assault case this week were questioned privately. During t...