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

On Saturday, April 27, from 6 to 8 p.m., Montelores Baptist Church will host a barbecue dinner and Concert featuring WestWind Connection, a county gospel band from northern Colorado. Everyone is invit...

I would like to thank Larry Don Suckla, Martha Robinson, Mike Higman and the Lewis-Arriola Fire Department for coming quietly to my “by early invitation only Easter BBQ”! We had a wonderful turnout of...

April is the Month of the Young Child and the perfect time to share what our local early childhood council has been up to over the past 12 months. We know that what happens to children in ...

DENVER – Legislators at last began moving on the final piece of their gun violence agenda Tuesday with the first of two bills addressing people with dangerous mental problems. Sponsors have...

DENVER – Democrats advanced an election bill Monday night that would replace neighborhood polling places with mail ballots. La Plata County Clerk Tiffany Lee Parker, a Republican, was one o...