The Cortez Journal encourages people to submit announcements about upcoming events for the Community Calendar. Send announcements to news@cortezjournal.com. Items submitted less than two weeks...

The first day of classes in Mancos was Tuesday, and law enforcement officials are reminding motorists to obey posted speed limits. The friendly reminder to obey the posted 20 m.p.h. speed...

Atmos Energy is warning customers about a scam in which customers are contacted by individuals demanding immediate payment of past due balances. Atmos Energy does contact customers with pa...

Monday, Aug. 12 An officer was requested by dispatch to respond to North Edith Street for a female refusing to leave a house. When the officer arrived, he spoke with the woman who lived at ...

Thursday, Aug. 1 A female driver was pulled over because she failed to use her turn signal in Dolores. The woman’s hands were shaking in a nervous manner when she was trying to find her dri...

Some Cortez Sanitation District customers could see their rates double, or even triple, when a new rate structure is adopted next year. CSD board chairman Dave Waters issued the warning of ...

Visitors to the Colorado Welcome Center in Cortez have inched up slightly up this year, but tourism at Mesa Verde National Park continued to decline. For the first half of 2013, the welcome...

The City of Cortez has opted to see how the state experiments with marijuana, proposing to adopt a temporary prohibition on recreational marijuana sales. In a wait-and-see mode, city counci...