A rockslide on Colorado Highway 145 north of Dolores temporarily cut traffic down to one lane Thursday morning. The highway reopened fully shortly before noon. The slide occurred near mile post 25, a...

Look up – it’s bald eagle season in Colorado. Several thousand of the majestic birds have migrated here for the winter and about 300 pairs who live in the state year-round are busy fixing up their nes...

As part of a temporary stopgap government funding measure passed last week, Congress also approved a one-year extension of the Farm Bill. While the Farm Bill is seen as-must pass legislation by all si...

On Christmas Day, the Montezuma County Annex Building in downtown Cortez hosted hundreds of people as they enjoyed a hearty holiday meal, together. Community members filled plates with ham, sweet pot...

The Cortez Fire Protection District put a sales tax on the ballot in November, and it passed with 54% of voters in favor of it. Only those within their district voted on it, as the tax only applies to...

On the afternoon of Dec. 12, a red-tailed hawk was released in Mesa Verde National Park, about a month after it was injured there. In early November, it had “reportedly flew into a car,” so the park’s...

Another strong season on the cheer mats yielded more feathers in the caps of local spirit programs at Mancos and Montezuma-Cortez, as each team earned an all-state selection from their performance at ...

The third track off the late John Prine’s 1973 album “Sweet Revenge” starts off with the lyric: “It was Christmas in prison and the food was real good, we had turkey and pistols carved out of wood.” ...

Brilliance on the gridiron has become a standard expectation for Southwest Colorado’s football programs. It should come as no surprise, then, that the region collected another hefty haul of all-state...

Jeremiah Hight, the suspect wanted in the fatal shooting of a child in Towaoc, was arrested at 3:52 p.m. Christmas Eve west of Oljato, Utah, by the Navajo Police Department K-9 unit and the Bureau of ...