The Cortez Police Department will host a Blue Light Honor Walk on Nov. 22 in honor of Sgt. Michael Moran, who was killed in the line of duty on Nov. 29 last year. It will be at 5:30 p.m. at the Corte...

The Dolores RE-4A school board on Monday thanked voters for passing the mill levy, discussed the BEST grant and approved the return of a high school girls golf team. The monthly meeting began with sp...

At least 104 people have been sickened, with 34 hospitalized, in an outbreak of E. coli food poisoning tied to onions served on McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers, federal health officials said Wed...

Brian C. Williamson, an anthropologist turned criminal defense lawyer who was born and raised in Cortez, will be the newest addition to the Denver County Court. He was appointed to the position by Den...

The death of a 58-year-old woman, Joni Allred, whose body was found in the Animas River near the Doubletree Hotel on Sept. 7, has been ruled a drowning. Initially, the La Plata County Coroner’s Office...

The Southwestern Colorado Research Center in Yellow Jacket recently planted an acre of a promising perennial crop called silphium. Native to the Great Plains of Kansas, it has interested researchers b...

Bayfield Middle School’s Native American Heritage Club is using events such as Native American Heritage Month, held in November, as a way to raise historical and cultural awareness and understanding. ...

My career as an educator spans more than three decades. I was a principal in the Montezuma-Cortez School District, in the mid 1990s, when Superintendent Bill Thompson and Business Manager Jim Riffey p...