For 37 years, Dennis Story has served the community as a case worker, supervisor, and then director of Montezuma County Social Services. His wife, Sue, put in 37 years as a lab technician a...

The gym was loud, the stakes were high, and the intensity in the eyes of players was unmistakable. The setting was the Class 2A Regional Volleyball Tournament, which was held in Dolores on ...

Playing its final matches of the 2014 season, the Montezuma-Cortez High School team lost twice in the Class 4A Region 7 Tournament. Opening the Tournament against Evergreen High School on N...

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A Salt Lake City man wanted in connection to the robbery of a local grocery store last week remains on the loose. Cortez police have an issued an all points bulletin. Cortez Police Chief Ro...

Wednesday, Oct. 22 8:00 p.m. Police responded to a disturbance call in front of Manaugh Elementary School, according to a third party, a male was arguing with a female and possibly trying t...

An alleged Mancos pimp will not be allowed to review social services records as he prepares for a trial by jurors in January. Public defender Katherine Whitney requested the county records ...

When launched last fall, dozens routinely attended monthly Hemp Talks meetings in Cortez. At its most recent gathering, less than a handful was present. Sharon Stewart, a Cortez businesswom...

Local health and hospital officials hosted a meeting last week about the Ebola virus, a disease that has had very deadly reaches in West Africa and hit the United States last month when a man from Lib...

The 2014 election is on track to be the most expensive in the nation’s history, and that is highly unusual for a midterm With its bitterly contested U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races, Co...