An ominous graphic on the U.S. Drought Monitor website reveals worsening drought conditions overtaking the region. The 12-week map animation begins March 19 and ends June 4. Red hues repres...

A top official with one of the area's largest employers dismissed rumors that jobs would be relocated out of Cortez. The Cortez Journal received undocumented information Friday that Skanska...

A countywide fire ban was reinstated Monday by the Montezuma County commissioners. The ordinance prohibits the use of fireworks and open fires including burn barrels, camp fires, trash burn...

The design team for the new Montezuma-Cortez High School will be giving a public presentation today at 6 p.m. at the administration building, 400 N. Elm Street. A regular scheduled board meeting will ...

Nothing signifies the arrival of summer in Cortez quite like the splash of swimmers competing in the Cortez Leopard Sharks Invitational. Taking place June 7-9 at the Cortez Municipal Pool, the Invitat...

Editor:It appears that the majority of Colorado sheriffs, including the one we elected in Montezuma County, do not understand the limits of their authority. Sheriffs are elected to enforce the laws th...

Editor:This horrifying story we are hearing on the news makes one wonder how the plight of those women, held captive for a decade, could have been kept from the world, never mind the next-door neighbo...

Most Americans have probably long (and correctly) assumed that the federal government knew whom they called and what they read and said on the Internet. Communication providers collected that data; th...