The votes are in for Three local restaurants – Oscar’s Cafe in Durango, Absolute Bakery in Mancos and Beny’s Diner in Cortez – made the shortlist of 20 restaurants competing for the title of “Best C...

The Raminator, a Guinness World Record-breaking monster truck, will charge into Cortez for a two-day family event starting May 4. Built by the Hall Brothers racing team, the 10,300-pound be...

The Utah Bureau of Land Management has sold oil and gas leases near Hovenweep National Monument, despite requests by monument officials to defer them to protect archaeological and natural resources. ...

The suspect who allegedly made an unsubstantiated threat toward Montezuma-Cortez schools was apprehended Friday afternoon in Cortez after the Montezuma County Sheriff’s Office located his car. ...

I found the editorial “Import tariffs” ( The Journal tells us they are concerned about the loss of jobs and negative effects the loss of quality and news coverage would have to small communities like...

Thanks to the Journal for reporting on the deficiencies in health practices at our local restaurants. I stopped dining out months ago and noticed that occurrences of “unexplained” gastroin...

With Earth Day approaching April 22, this would be the perfect time for U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton to join the Climate Solutions Caucus and become part of the movement to enact effective, bipartisan solut...

I’ve lived in Mancos and Cortez for over 20 years, but I arrived here from Las Vegas, went to UNLV, had many old college friends as well as many business associates. This background is important becau...

On Feb. 7, Nancy Pelosi, Democratic minority leader in the House of Representatives, stood more than eight hours, in defense of DACA. She repeatedly called upon Speaker Paul Ryan to bring the DACA que...