Atmos warns customers of utility-bill scam

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 custome...

Police Blotter

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...

Sheriff Blotter

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 fi...

Cortez Sanitation District shelves rate study for now

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 w...

Tourism numbers a mixed bag

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, t...

Pot-sale ban inches forward

Public hearing<br/>set for Aug. 27

Grand jury indicts Cronk

Ex-undersheriff<br/>to face total of 18 counts

Impressive local talent for great cause

‘The Voice’ singers raise the roof in Towaoc

Back to school

Superintendent is buzzing with energy<br/>as classes resume Wednesday

EPA to inspect Mancos milling site

Liukko fined $337,167; unsafe mercury level in shed on W. Grand Avenue

Traffic delays at Ophir for rockfall prevention

The Colorado Department of Transportation and rockfall contractor Yenter Companies will conduct preventative rockfall mitigation at a site above Highway 145 at Ophir, south of Telluride betw...

MVIC to shut off water

Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company will be turning water off on Sept. 3. There will be a stock run for all ditches including the Towaoc Highline, Rocky Ford, Simon Suckla and Ute Pipeline, ...