At 75 years old, J.C. Trujillo can still feel the moment he became a rodeo cowboy. He was 6. He remembers his first calf-riding competition for kids “as clear as day,” he said. “I was scared as you co...

A decade ago, Jim and Daphne Myers opened a small grocery store in Bailey, about an hour west of Denver, just off U.S. Highway 285. Business was slow from the start. Foot traffic was hard to come by i...

A federal jury indicted Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, his sisters Hujrah Wahhaj and Subhanah Wahhaj, and Subhanah’s husband, Lucas Morton, for supporting terrorism. After a three-week trial, the jury convicted Si...

DOLORES – For both the Bears and Bulldogs, their Thursday gridiron clash signaled the turning of a page. For the home-standing Bears, Senior Night carried the emotional farewell to over a half-dozen s...

Community Connections has provided services to three Southwest Colorado counties – San Juan, Archuleta and La Plata – and is expanding their case management services to Montezuma and Dolores counties....

Surrounded by cultural artifacts near the front of the Cortez Cultural Center and paintings near the back, Executive Director Shere Holleman wiped down stacked black riser cube stands near the paintin...

At their short meeting on Tuesday, the Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 school board discussed ESS and BOCES, school safety training and data from the 2022-2023 school year. Superintendent report In his rep...

On Thursday, a team of 12 students and a professor from the University of North Dakota arrived at Pueblo Community College Southwest’s campus to conduct research on the solar eclipse, which took place...

In a four-day span, the Cortez Police Department arrested three individuals suspected of driving under the influence in Cortez, including one who almost struck a minor McDonald’s employee in the resta...

Trinadie Xavier Lopez, who was wanted in a shooting near Empire Street on Sept. 15, surrendered to the Cortez Police Department on Friday and was arrested. He will appear at the Montezuma Combined Cou...