DIAGRAM 1 In Aesop’s “Four Oxen and the Lion,” the oxen keep the lion away by joining forces and locking horns. After a quarrel, the oxen split up, and the lion ate them one by one. This fable is...

WASHINGTON – The National Park Service said last week it is going to start charging international tourists and extra $100 to enter 11 of the most visited U.S. National Parks, while leaving them out of...

The La Plata County Sheriff’s Office will permanently reduce its front-facing office hours in response to the increased number of open records requests, as well as recent changes that add stricter req...

Dear Action Line, Based on COTrip.org, CDOT has apparently removed its road cameras from Purgatory to Silverton that livestream video of road conditions. Instead, we have seven in the first f...

Brett and Diana Davis are no strangers to getting deep in the backcountry for weeks at a time, just to see what is there. Most of their adventures revolve around pedaling through a remote wilderness ...

Thank you, Montezuma County commissioners, for your article, “Keeping Montezuma County clean begins with each one of us” (Guest Columns, Journal, Nov. 19), expressing a sentiment that has long been de...

The Montezuma Heritage Museum has received an original oil portrait of Jack House, the last traditional chief of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. The portrait was painted in 1986 by self-taught artist and ...

Santa Claus is coming to Cortez for Santa Photo Saturday. Santa will be available for photos Saturday, Dec. 6, from 1 to 3 p.m. at ZU Gallery, 48 W. Main St. The first 100 guests will receive a free ...

Major flooding is rare in La Plata County, a region marked by a dry, drought-prone climate. But when tropical rainstorms swept across Southwest Colorado in mid-October, emergency officials say the cou...