The Montezuma County Landfill will close by 2 p.m. on Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day. It will reopen to the public at 8 a.m. the next day, Friday, July 5. Other county offices will be closed a...

Editor: I have been reading the letters to the editor by Catherine Spencer. I know both parties. I’ve also read the paper where the city is working with the lady who is helping the vet. ...

Editor: The politicians and pundits are all saying Edward Snowden is a traitor. I don’t think he’s traitor or hero but one mixed-up young man given access to something that was wrong to sta...

Editor: In looking at the Calkins building, I would hope to have it saved by the city of Cortez. I know you have road to patch and schools to build, but our town history is very...

As fires burn throughout Colorado and other parts of the West, destroying homes and lives, know that President Barack Obama plans to make things worse. The forest fire nightmare is sustaine...

COLORADO AND THE WEST The western Colorado town of Nucla only has about 730 residents, but its council is eager to tell them how to live — only in the name of freedom, of course, and to pro...

The Colorado Legislature passed a comprehensive education finance overhaul measure in its 2013 session, realigning for the better several critical components of how schools are funded and, more import...

The La Plata County Sheriff's Office announced Thursday it has identified the remains of the body of Dylan Redwine, a 13-year-old boy who went missing in November north of Vallecito Reservoir. ...