The Rodriguez family was preparing for a night of spectacle ahead of Silverton’s widely anticipated Fourth of July fireworks show when trouble came a sniffing. Tanner Rodriguez was sitting in the bed ...

The family of a La Plata County Jail inmate who died in custody has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the county, the jail’s medical contractor and individual employees. Daniel Foard, 32, died o...

The Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 school board on July 15 unanimously approved the first reading of the JBAA Preserving Fairness and Safety in Sports policy and the second reading of the revised nondiscrimina...

A pre-evacuation notice for 25 structures in southwest La Plata County, where a 530-acre wildfire has entered its second week, was lifted Monday. The Ute 63 Fire was 34% contained as of Tuesday, accor...

CORTEZ Monday-Friday, July 21-25 Kids Comedy Improv Summer Ca.m.p!, 9 a.m. – noon, Sunflower Theatre, 8 E. Main St. $125, Anita Burleson will teach improv fun-da.m.entals with final showcase! Registra...

Vital to the Dolores River Watershed, thousands of mature ponderosa pines have been protected from logging north of Dolores under a new agreement between the U.S. Forest Service and two environmental...

Alli Cloyd started making tallow-based skincare products to help her family, but that undertaking evolved into a business: True Radiance. “Our son had eczema, and it really helped him feel a lot bette...

Levon Aronian is an Armenian-American chess player who has been at the top of chess world since he was 17 years old. Now a veteran at 42, he has had to face the rising tide of young chess talent, whos...

are all set to lose government funding that enables them to provide hyperlocal news and wide-ranging programming to the southwest Four Corners radio stations are bracing for budget cuts after t...

Dear Action Line, I heard that the Vineyard Church will take over the Nissan building as their new place of worship. Vineyard is a nondenominational Christian group. Like so many new churches...