Changes at Southwest Health System Mindi Clark, RN, has been named as the new Nurse Navigator at Southwest Health System (SHS). Clark replaces Maureen Pyle, RN, who has taken the position o...

A string of hearty pack mules is doing much of the heavy lifting for a trail restoration project on national forest lands north of Rico. Sporting the classic US FS brand on their haunches, ...

Great Lakes Airlines, the sole commercial carrier servicing Cortez, soars across blue skies in the red. Servicing 30 airports across nine states, the Cheyenne-based regional airline reporte...

Very few lessons, religious or otherwise, start on the assumption that student already knows the right answers. But St. Barnabas Episcopal Church will be using a form of religious educatio...

In Tuesday’s Republican primary, Montezuma County voters delivered some surprises. Conventional wisdom says an incumbent is very difficult to defeat, but Sheriff Dennis Spruell came up 700 ...

WASHINGTON – Republicans, after years of squabbling with President Obama, have decided to resolve their differences with him according to a time-honored American tradition. They are going t...

I don’t know who will win the position of sheriff. However, the day after the election the winner becomes the full-time manager of a respected law enforcement and search and rescue operation. We citiz...

Is this president stupid, unfeeling, unthinking or just disconnected from reality period. Nothing happening seems to make a dent in his demeanor nor does it get him off the dime to actually do somethi...

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The Dolores Star Fisherman are reporting good fishing in the area, according to Tom Rowell at the Riverside Convenience Store in Dolores. Reports are coming from Groundhog that t...