SANTA FE – State education officials are offering to pay for the salaries of 500 teaching assistants and offer them tuition subsidies in a two-year effort to jump-start recruitment in K-12 schools. “T...

A young bull moose took up residency this week in Durango, apparently strolling in somewhere near the Colorado Trail, then wandering a couple of city neighborhoods and eventually being tranquilized an...

Lech Usinowicz, executive director of the Be FRANK Foundation, is receiving care at a Colorado Springs hospital for injuries suffered during a hunting trip last week. Usinowicz was reported missing th...

A 61-year-old man was issued domestic violence charges after allegedly threatening his wife and cutting her wrist with a knife Aug. 29, according to the Montezuma County Sheriff’s Office. An arrest w...

FARMINGTON – A replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, called The Wall That Heals, arrived this week in Farmington. The wall is a mobile replica of the permanent memorial in Washington, D.C., that i...

Slowly but surely, green is melting into gold as summer gives way to fall — and Southwest Colorado will be privy to some of the best displays in the state. The Four Corners region can expect “particu...

Although not wanting to have to battle back and erase a large Game 3 deficit against the CHSAA Class 3A’s No. 10 team, the Bayfield Wolverines showed that they could. And prevailing 25-20, 25-14, 25-...

Wednesday, Aug. 18 12:39 a.m. A fire of undetermined origin was reported in the 17000 block of County Road 30 in Dolores. Monday, Aug. 23 10:53 a.m. A deputy responded to a call about a two-...

It’s a Bible verse familiar to many Christians – and even to many non-Christians who have seen John 3:16 on billboards and T-shirts or scrawled across eye black under football players’ helmets. But Te...

The Sunflower Troupe, returning to the Cortez stage for the first time since 2019, will hold its first regional play festival, featuring nine plays by area authors Sept. 24-25 at the Sunflower Theatre...