Friday, April 3 12:11 a.m. An officer was contacted by the local movie theater regarding a person asleep that staff could not wake up. When the officer arrived, it was discovered that the p...

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Small churches, like other small groups, tend to be homogenous. Members most often look at the world through the same, or similar, lenses. For the most part they believe the same things; th...

Summertime technically isn’t here yet, but local choir group the Southwest Singers is ushering it in early with its upcoming show “Summer Is in the Air.” Choir director Ruth Wilson Francisc...

About 150 years after English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote “Alice in Wonderland,” members of the Cortez Middle School drama department are set to bring the classic novel to life this weekend....

The Colorado General Assembly is three-quarters of the way through. The past couple of weeks have been budget time. The budget started in the Senate this year. The budget process alternates from House...

A century ago, in 1915, the Colorado Legislature wrote into the state’s first workers’ compensation law a provision that says any information employers provided “shall not be open to the public.” ...

There is ample reason for the United States to doubt Iran’s sincerity in adhering to a nuclear arms agreement. Iran also has ample reason to doubt our sincerity, given the letter it recently received ...

We were encouraged to learn that Connie Clementson, Bureau of Land Management’s Tres Rios Field Office manager, recently committed to putting a Master Leasing Plan back on the table for southwest Colo...