Thursday, Nov. 13 2:09 p.m. An officer was in a marked patrol vehicle in the 200 block of West 2nd when he observed a man he believed to have active warrants enter a home. The owner of the ...

The Ute Mountain Ute tribe has purchased Mesa Verde Pottery, an enduring icon of local tourism on the eastern entrance to Cortez. According to several sources, the tribe plans to establish ...

Email announcements to news@cortezjournal.com and include “Community Calendar” in the subject field. Items submitted less than two weeks in advance will be less likely to be published. Entries and the...

M-CHS graduate deploys overseas Air Force Reserve Staff Sgt. Calvin-Paul O. Stewart has deployed overseas to a forward operating base to serve in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. ...

While automotive engineers race forward with a lightweight pickup, self-driving cars, standard rearview cameras and ever better fuel economy, another segment of the auto industry is growing in size: t...

The city of Cortez land-use code – nearly two decades old – is expected to receive a $200,000 makeover starting next year. Adopted in 1996, the current municipal land-use code and zoning ma...

High-speed Internet has arrived in Dolores. The fiber-optics technology is coiled to strike, a black circle of wire seen on telephone lines in town. “That’s it on the street; now...

WASHINGTON — The United States-China agreement on climate change is a huge political triumph, possibly “historic,” as its supporters say. Whether it much alters the world’s climate is a more open ques...

This letter is in response to Lisa Roche’s Letter to the editor (Journal, Nov. 11) headlined, “Commissioners do not respect their office.” Roche is very kind person I worked with Deb Barton...

If you haven’t been there, you probably won’t fully understand Though maybe you know the heart and soul of a veteran, and you do understand Why they left home, so you didn’t hav...