Fall foliage is beginning to burst in all of its golden-orange glory in the San Juans. As of this week, 30 percent of the cottonwoods, oakbrush and aspens along the Dolores River up to Rico...

A small white grandma donkey, Tilly battles all kinds of ailments from her head to her hooves. But last Thanksgiving, she jumped a cattle guard and came to stand all night in Rachel Karneff...

Alleged vandal needs tutor A 68-year-old California man, who rejected a plea deal last week, has yet to master the English language. At an arraignment hearing on Tuesday, Sept. ...

DENVER – A gun-safety group founded by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg endorsed Gov. John Hickenlooper and U.S. Sen. Mark Udall for re-election Tuesday. Republicans are using t...

Fair board seeks new members The Montezuma County Fair Board is looking for three community members who are willing to work together to organize county fair events, contests, and exhibits i...

WASHINGTON – Christian conservatives are often the subject of study by academics, who seem to find their culture as foreign as that of Borneo tribesmen. And this is a particularly interesting time for...

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We Americans seem to be trapped in a Groundhog Day scenario featuring a sneering Dick Cheney, over and over again defending the invasion of Iraq and the use of torture, a term his tender sensibilities...

The Montezuma County commissioners want the State Legislature to block a private landowner from selling his property to Canyons of the Ancients National Monument. The commissioners’ opposit...

I accidentally attended the city’s recreational marijuana legalization debate Aug. 26 when I went to ask the city to take a symbolic stand against the misuse of the media in the Ferguson, Missouri, tr...