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Editor’s note: S. H. Phlegar, Dolores, wrote this story in 1934 about events in Montezuma Valley in 1909. Twenty-five years ago at Lebanon in the Montezuma Valley – well, those were the best days...

A flash-flood watch was issued for Southwest Colorado, northwest New Mexico and southeast Utah from noon Wednesday into the evening as thunderstorms with potentially heavy rain move into the...

DENVER – Federal investigators confirmed that they have been looking into a possible criminal connection to last year’s Gold King Mine spill. The Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector...

Travelers along Colorado Highway 145 near Rico will find an informative, kid-friendly rest stop at the historic San Juan National Forest Visitor Center. Tucked into an aspen grove at 9,000 feet,...

Montezuma County commissioners decided Monday to delay asking voters if they want a 1 percent sales tax to finance a $39 million broadband project for high-speed internet services. County...

The Wild Bunch was in a good spot.As the second team to make its run in the 2016 Ranch Rodeo at Bob Banks Memorial Arena on Sunday evening, the group of Cowboys from Cortez and Animas, New Mexico,...

Monsoons finally arrived in Southwest Colorado this week after a couple of brief flirtations earlier this summer, promising more rain for a hot and dry Montezuma County. There were two weak...

Before handing Nicholas Lopez a six-year sentence Friday, Montezuma District Court Judge Todd Plewe called Lopez a coward for refusing to make good on a promise he had made in his plea agreement....

A man suspected of strangling his girlfriend 1½ years ago in Dove Creek was scheduled Friday for a two-week trial to begin late November in 6th Judicial District Court. William Blackburn Jr., 46,...

DENVER – U.S. Attorney John Walsh, Colorado’s top federal prosecutor during the state’s trailblazing experiment in legal marijuana, is stepping down. Walsh, who served for six years, announced his...