A gold miner nine miles northeast of Mancos denies allegations that he used mercury to refine gold. Reached by telephone Monday morning, Craig Liukko told the Cortez Journal he declined to ...

Joshua Jones served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now he’s training alongside other veterans in the San Juan National Forest. A 25-year-old Army veteran from Ardmore, Okla., Jones is...

Area artists are invited to participate in the Cortez Cultural Center’s Artists’ Market Aug. 31 and Sept. 1. Limited 10x10 booth space is available. Stop by the Center to pick up a registration form, ...

DENVER – Just 12 doctors account for more than half the 108,000 patients on Colorado’s medical marijuana registry, a state audit revealed Monday. One doctor had more than 8,400 patients on ...

Editor: On behalf of the Ute Mountain Roundup, the Rodeo Committee would like to thank all of our communities for their continued support of the rodeo. Specifically, we would like to thank ...

The Cortez Journal encourages people to submit announcements about upcoming events for the Community Calendar. Send announcements to news@cortezjournal.com. Items submitted less than two weeks in ...

YELLOW JACKET — Local farmers will soon raise their beer mugs and declare a hearty “Cheers!” thanks to a proposal by Miller Coors to grow their malting barley here. Test plots at the CSU Ye...

A helicopter pilot was killed Tuesday morning in a crash at a remote oil-and-gas construction site southeast of Dove Creek. A.J. Blain of Montana was piloting a Huey-style helicopter as par...