On Nov. 26, new bathrooms officially opened in Flander’s Park in Dolores. “It’s quite amazing how fast that bathroom went up,” said Dolores Town Manager Leigh Reeves. The roughly $285,000 project to...

Cortez resident and former Montezuma-Cortez school board member Layne Frazier has been nationally honored as the 2024 First Tee Teacher of the Year. This recognition comes from Frazier’s work to enric...

The plea hearing for Superintendent Harry (Tom) Burris has been moved to January after multiple continuances in Montezuma County Court. Burris is accused of a misdemeanor charge of failing to report a...

A third-party law firm hired to investigate the Colorado secretary of state’s election system password breach found that passwords were posted online unintentionally, though two policies related to tr...

My name is Katie Stewart, and I am your new state representative for House District 59. On the campaign trail, I had the privilege of meeting people across Southwest Colorado, and I’ve found that, reg...

In 1920, a man named David C. Stephenson came up from Texas to Indiana and resurrected the old dogma that sprouted from the outcome of the Civil War. He blasted out the rhetoric of “America is for Ame...

Anytime is a good time to teach children about kindness, responsibility, counting and the love of reading, but the Christmas season seems a particularly apt time to do so. Those very important goals w...

Monday, Nov. 18 2:52 p.m. A deputy took a report for a handgun theft in the 23500 block of County Road G.2. Wednesday, Nov. 20 8:50 a.m. A deputy took a report for a theft or a package from a woman in...