Have you wanted to have a positive impact on those in your community? Now is your chance. The Cortez Fire Protection District is accepting applications for volunteer firefighters. ...

Sunday, Feb. 9 6 p.m. Dispatch requested an officer call a man about a possible child abuse case. Upon the officer’s contact with the man at his residence he told the officer that he believ...

Mancos town trustees passed an emergency ordinance to extend a ban on large retail stores until June during the board meeting Feb. 12. But one board member stood in stark opposition to the ban on comm...

For the second year in a row, the Citizen of the Year Award couldn’t be bestowed on just one person. At a ceremony on Thursday, the fire chief presented The Mancos Valley Lions Club with t...

State Sen. Ellen Roberts, R-Durango, has sponsored a bill that would change the way county commissioners are elected. It would allow voters in counties with fewer than 70,000 residents to require comm...

Two Feb. 4 Cortez Journal commentary headlines were curiously at odds with the articles that followed. Sen. Ellen Roberts’s column, “Good governance informs measure to change county election process,”...

What a president we have. He disdains the Constitution, refuses to discuss anything with the Republicans and believes anyone who is conservative is to be destroyed. He uses any and all federal agencie...

VATICAN CITY – The Internet is a “gift from God” that facilitates communication, Pope Francis said in a statement released Thursday, but he warns that the obsessive desire to stay connected can actual...