November is Hospice month

Region 9 receives additional $500K for business loans

The Region 9 Economic Development District of Southwest Colorado Inc. received an award of $500,000 through an extension of the Community Development Block Grant contract between the state O...

Critics knock carbon plans; EPA hears from miners in Denver

DENVER – Coal miners from as far away as North Dakota came to Denver on Wednesday to speak out against plans to cut greenhouse-gas pollution from power plants. The Environmental P...

Roadrunner schedule

Durango to Grand Junction Durango . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 a.m. Cortez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:46 a.m. Telluride . . . . . . . ...

Community Calendar

People are encouraged to submit announcements about upcoming events for the Community Calendar. Send announcements to news@cortezjournal.com. Items submitted less than two weeks in advan...

Popular Cortez bartender dies in crash as car veers off road

A one-car accident killed a Cortez woman Thursday afternoon, Oct. 31, on Highway 145, north of Rico. Sandra “Sandy” Sangosti-Fuhrman, 50, died after her southbound Volvo station w...

Heart takes Ute oath, says tribes need to coordinate efforts

TOWAOC — The booming beats of the Catching Eagle Drum Circle introduced Manuel Heart, the newly elected Ute Mountain Ute Tribal chairman, in an impressive swearing-in ceremony Friday morning...

Local Briefs

4-H Day will be held at fairgrounds Nov. 2 The second annual 4-H Day will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 2, at the Montezuma County Fairgrounds, 30100 Highway 160 in Cortez....

Cortez Middle School honor roll

SIXTH GRADE Alexandra Cristine Mari Abeyta, Tylan Ray Bahe, Mackenzie M Begay, Malia Emily Begay, Reality Grace Belue, Naomi Ravit Binia, Logan Boyde Birch, Severn M Black, Lilie ...

Lack of living wage hits county

Many residents are forced to make ‘undesirable choices’

Latest devices hogging the air

Demand for broadband frequencies to power the latest mobile devices could muscle out local television channels depended on by rural communities, industry officials say. As million...

Community Calendar

People are encouraged to submit announcements about upcoming events for the Community Calendar. Send announcements to news@cortezjournal.com. Items submitted less than two weeks in advan...