The Mancos Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved gravel pads for an RV park and the town’s third marijuana shop. Developer Dugan McDonald proposed changes and an extension for the constru...

The Cortez Christmas Bird Count scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 30, offers an excellent opportunity for birders new to the area or anyone interested in birds to become acquainted with local species. ...

I attended the Summit on Education Reform in Nashville, Tennessee. Jeb Bush opened the conference and repeated a quote from the first conference in 2008: “The country’s school system is an 8-track in ...

I just finished a great Zane Grey book, Riders of the Purple Sage, and am halfway through another titled Tonto Basin. They’re both great stories, and the main characters’ lives are influenced and dire...

Some trends ran all the way through 2017, and most involved change. In the beginning of the year, there was snow – a whole lot of it. That enabled McPhee Reservoir to fill and spill, guaran...