Game after game, the Montezuma-Cortez High School girls basketball team makes subtle improvements. Thus, although the Panthers have yet to win a game this season, it appears that the group ...

Plagued by turnovers, defensive breakdowns and a costly technical foul late, the Montezuma-Cortez High School boys basketball team was far from flawless. Even so, the Panthers gutted their ...

Are you still unsure about how to secure health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (aka, Obamacare)? If so, contact a Southwest Health System patient financial representative for assi...

The Cortez First United Methodist church is sponsoring a “SOUPer Bowl Sunday” food can drive for the Hope soup kitchen. Free meals are served three days a week at Hope’s Kitchen at noon. Th...

Warm up those vocal chords. Auditions for the Real Second Annual Cortez Idol competition kick off next week. Hosted at Blondie’s Trophy Room in downtown Cortez, the singing competition is m...

People are encouraged to submit announcements about upcoming events for the Community Calendar. Send announcements to news@cortezjournal.com. Items submitted less than two weeks in advance will be les...

Editor: The Cortez Public Library would like to thank several community members for contributing to our fourth annual Christmas tree giveaway. Each year, the children make ornam...

The following local students graduated from Fort Lewis College on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013: Tia Flippin, of Dolores, CO, graduated with a major in Biology - Environmental & Organismic Biolog...

Empire Electric Association plans to continue offering high school student scholarships and adult scholarships to its members. Twenty-four scholarships of $1,000 each will be awarded to se...

A truck driver, a wrangler and a jack-of-all trades all found a new start through a federal job training program for older workers. Joe Miller, a former truck driver, lost his job during ...