DENVER – Education advocates are reacting with a mix of resolve and confusion to the staggering size of the loss of Amendment 66 at Tuesday’s election. With votes in 51 of the state’s 64 co...

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...

Sugar Pine Ranch Rally organizers have decided to end the annual Labor Day weekend motorcycle rally near Mancos after a seven-year run. The rally was a smaller competitor to the Four Corner...

An 1890s horse-drawn seed planter sits woefully stored out of sight in the catacombs of Cortez City Hall. Next to it is a huge bellows from a blacksmith shop, and on a shelf above sits a wooden WWI pr...

Modern medicine has made some stunning advances like eradicating small pox and mapping the human genome, but it still hasn’t answered a basic question: when to start feeding babies solid foods. ...

As a whole, the 2013 fall sports season was a tough one for Montezuma-Cortez High School sports teams. No team recorded a winning record, no team qualified for state, and competing for victories on a ...