As a big game hunter who (like over 90 percent of Colorado sportsmen) hunts on public lands, the recent push by some elected officials and big industry groups to transfer our federal public lands to s...

Southern Ute Community Action Programs plans to resume the Durango-Grand Junction ground transportation on Tuesday, July 15, 2014. Motorcoach service will be seven days per week, 365 days p...

Kinder Morgan plans to conduct seismic geophysical surveys on private land in the Goodman Point area. Larry Smith, permit manager for subcontractor Geophysical Land Services, presented the ...

Thanks to a donation, Habitat for Humanity of Montezuma County now has enough funding to build or purchase its first home for a low-income family. Habitat received a $50,000 windfall last m...

Funeral services for Colton Wade Coffman, 14 of Cortez, will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, July 17 in the amphitheater at Parque de Vida. Interment will follow at Summit Ridge Cemetery. ...

The next distribution is Saturday, Aug. 9. You must bring a box large enough for your commodities. The state has a new policy about picking up goods for someone else, and there is a form th...

Chimney Rock in southern Colorado is the most northern and eastern ancestral Pueblo site of the Chacoan world. Chimney Rock has long been interpreted as a frontier of Chaco, concepts developed from co...

The Boettcher Foundation has honored Montezuma-Cortez High School English teacher Paul Koops. Koops was among 40 Colorado teachers recognized for the impact they’ve had on some of the state...

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