Recent rains are filling McPhee Reservoir, improving its outlook for next season. The reservoir’s elevation is 4½ feet higher than this time last year, reports Vern Harrell, a Bureau of Rec...

Nov. 4 election is around the corner Mail-in ballots for the Nov. 4 general election will be sent to active registered voters to the address on their voter registration the week of Oct. 12....

The Cortez Journal Mail-in ballots for the Nov. 4 general election will be sent to active registered voters to the address on their voter registration beginning the week of Oct. 12. To upda...

National 4-H Week is Oct. 5–11. This year’s theme is “#iam4H”. Montezuma County 4-H gives youths the skills to confront today’s problems and thrive in careers tomorrow. It is the nation’s ...

WASHINGTON – You can win midterm elections without a positive agenda. You can’t win presidential elections that way. It is therefore vitally important for Republicans to win the Senate in 2014. Here’s...

The state of Colorado’s new program to issue driver’s licenses to those in the country illegally is absolutely the right idea. It is in Colorado’s – and Coloradans’ – interest to ensure that drivers i...

The recent story (Journal, Sept. 23) on the sheriff candidates took up a lot of space in the paper. Most of the content was opinions and accusations. Opinions, particularly from defense attorneys who ...

Your pictures of Silverton and up river from Durango were beautiful (Journal, Sept. 26). T oo bad you couldn’t get in pictures from travels up Highway 145 and take in scenes along that part...

It is difficult to understand how a man can be seeking to serve us in the highest of public offices and yet tarnish the very same legacy of public service the current officeholder and his family have ...

Mancos Public Library presents an advance screening of “Makers: Women in Comedy,” on Thursday, Oct. 16 at 6 p.m. Appetizers from the Millwood Junction Restaurant will be served before the ...