When Dave Van Bibber walks the halls at Dolores Elementary School, he shakes as many hands as he can. He also teaches students a special handshake. "They love it," he said. ...

Dolores School District is holding an open house and ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, Feb. 6, at noon to unveil the finished product of a $7 million construction and remodeling project. A...

Autopsies and Kinder Morgan construction issues were dealt with at Monday's Montezuma County commission meeting. Coroner George Deavers presented a proposal to make Montezuma County a centr...

We've all got problems and issues, even elementary and junior-high school students. And while they may seem trivial to adults, the Dolores School board knows they are just as important. ...

The Anasazi Heritage Center is in the midst of a snowstorm, perfect conditions for a recent prescribed fire. The falling snow and little wind allow BLM fire specialists to safely burn debri...

People buy property next to public lands assuming they will have private access to a vast backyard of open space and wilderness. But as some neighbors of Canyons of the Ancients National Mo...

Wild horse advocate TJ Holmes is hiking for hours and hours through Disappointment Valley, north of Dolores, with a specialized dart gun. She is searching for specific mares targeted to rec...

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If you ask any child, most of them will tell you, that school isn't easy. Ask a 5-year-old going into kindergarten, and they may event tell you it is scary as students enter a year of first...

Mrs. Mabel C. Waldron, county clerk and recorder of Montezuma County, is most critically ill at the Johnson Hospital in Cortez following a recent operation for appendicitis. There is little hope for h...