Within six weeks of inviting a needy family with three daughters to move into his Cortez home, a convicted sex offender allegedly sexually abused the youngest child, an 8-year-old, multiple times, cou...

DENVER – A proposed income tax increase for schools qualified for the November ballot Wednesday. The initiative, to be known as Amendment 66, asks voters to raise their income taxes in orde...

Saturday, Aug. 24 Dispatch said there had been several calls about the same dog running at large. An officer reported to the residence and spoke with a couple who told the officer that thei...

DENVER – Most businesses would never ask for a steep tax increase. But most businesspeople don’t sell a product that would have landed them in prison less than a year ago. A grou...

Although Fort Lewis College President Dene Kay Thomas was vindicated in the ethics complaint over her trip to Dubai, the case may have done lasting harm to the college’s new outreach efforts to foreig...

A former Montezuma County sheriff’s deputy has been cleared of any wrongdoing related to an accusation of inappropriately touching a suspect. The accusation was made by a 52-year-old Cortez...

With some creative budgeting, school officials are hopeful the new 152,000-square-foot high school in Cortez will include a geothermal mechanical system. “It’s a highly efficient, earth-fri...

The controversial Affordable Care Act will affect residents of Montezuma and Dolores counties seeking health insurance policies beginning Oct. 1, and guidance is available locally. Two pres...