The town of Dolores recently selected a new municipal judge, and her name is Kristen M.M. Tarrin. She starts on March 28. She will replace incumbent Municipal Judge Beth Padilla, who is resigning effe...

The proposed Senate Bill 163, which would prevent school bodies from prohibiting tribal-enrolled students in wearing traditional regalia at graduation and other public school events, has been approved...

A Farmington man and his girlfriend face 14 felony charges after the man’s 15-year-old daughter was allegedly forced to live outside in a chicken coop on one meal per day. A 15-year-old Farmington...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the dye known as Red 3 from the nation’s food supply in January, setting deadlines for stripping the brightly hued additive from candies and cough syrup, b...

About two-thirds of Colorado land is managed by the federal government. And there are a lot fewer federal workers managing those acres as of this week. A Valentine’s Day slashing of federal jobs by t...

Southwest Open School plans to launch a student newspaper, “The Bottom Line,” at the end of February, an idea conceived by a group of students who are interested in becoming journalists, said humaniti...

DOVE CREEK – Three area schools closed out their home schedules on Tuesday night with Dolores, Dove Creek, and Montezuma-Cortez honoring their seniors. Here’s a rundown of the action as the Bears, Bul...

It was easy to predict that a diktat from Donald Trump’s Justice Department would, at some point in his second term, prompt resignations from career prosecutors with conservative legal bona fides. Giv...

Donald Trump’s platform was clear when he was running for president. He promised to make bold improvements – quickly raising revenue by imposing tariffs on foreign goods, slashing prices at grocery st...

Employees at the Housing Authority of Montezuma County have spoken out about what they feel is not only unjust treatment by its governing board, but an overall misalignment of values between it and wh...