Two people arrested last summer by a Montezuma County Sheriff’s deputy have requested a $60,000 settlement in an attempt to avoid litigation. The five-page settlement demand was sent by cer...

A fire on Main Street. The Mancos water crisis. Seager Oliver’s title run. The Cortez Journal reports news as it happens on Facebook.com/Cortez Journal. This weekend, Ian MacLaren and Sam Green repo...

The K-9 Search and Rescue Team, headquartered in Dolores, was honored to attend a memorial service in Los Alamos, N.M., for Bob Cowen this past Sunday. Cowen was a pioneer in search and res...

Few wrestlers ever experience the joy that accompanies winning a high school state championship. After a spectacular weekend of wrestling, Montezuma-Cortez High School junior Seager Oliver ...

My wife recently asked me my thoughts concerning the suicide rate in our armed forces. After some discussion, I’m still not sure I have the answer. A friend of mine summed it up like this:...

DENVER – Colorado’s major-party candidates for governor, U.S. Senate and U.S. House this year are named John, Tom, Greg, Scott, Steve, Mike, Jason, Mark, Ken, Owen, Randy, Victor, Floyd, Jared, Scott,...

The New Year is here, and many of us ponder resolutions. Let us ponder on this: Why is secondhand smoke dangerous for kids? Secondhand smoke contains over 4000 chemicals including arsenic,...

KSJD broadcasters want to make the community’s ‘dry land radio’ station wet with alcohol, applying for a municipal liquor license. KSJD executive director Jeff Pope filed the request on Feb...

DENVER – The Cortez Journal won more than 30 awards in Colorado’s two major newspaper contests Friday in Denver. Photographer Sam Green won a dozen awards for his pictures and two more awar...

Construction on the Capitol dome appears to be winding up and, as the scaffolding is slowly dismantled, natural sunlight is beginning to reappear in the center of the building. It’s been a work in pr...