Mesa Verde to offer free hike

Park rangers plan to lead a guided hike exploring the ways that animals and plants survive in the winter environment of Mesa Verde National Park. The hike will tour the winter hab...

Endangered species art competition

The Endangered Species Act recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, and now students are asked to celebrate Endangered Species Day. Across America, students in kindergarten thro...

Forest Service to host fair for businesses

The U.S. Forest Service and Colorado Procurement Technical Assistance Center will offer a local procurement fair for area small businesses interested in providing equipment, supplies and/or ...

100 lose jobless benefits

Long-term aid cut under new budget

Jack Frost has not been kind to grapes

Western Colorado’s wine-grape crop faces another blow this year after record-low cold temperatures earlier this month killed vines and grape buds across the valley. “It’s been rea...

Longtime Cortez educator left an indelible mark in the community

Rare is the individual capable of bridging generational gaps, transcending cultural differences and touching the lives of nearly every person in his or her community. Ralph E. Va...

New businesses beginning to gain ground in Cortez

A new hotel, dental clinic, gas station and auto-parts store are coming to Cortez in the new year. Very few new businesses have come to town over the last few years. In 2012, the city issued...

Lone Mesa continues planning

Fledgling state park closed since 1999 purchase, but it will be worth wait

Prairie dogs critical for ferret recovery, officials say

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is announcing the availability of the black-footed ferret Revised Recovery Plan. The black-footed ferret was historically found throughout the Great Plains...

Gary Denton Greaves

Memorial services for longtime Pleasant View resident Gary Denton Greaves will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 3 at Ertel Memorial Chapel. Gary died at the age of 66, in his Ple...

Windows XP users, beware: Security updates are going away

Big changes are coming to the PC world if your home or business computers are still running Windows XP or Office 2003. Microsoft will stop issuing security updates to protect either system f...

Telluride is selling, and ‘business is good’

TELLURIDE – On New Year’s Day, the first day to sell recreational marijuana legally in Colorado, Adam Raleigh said he was glad he ignored his father’s advice against becoming a ganjapreneur....