2015 forecast: McPhee won't fill

While it has been speculated for some time, the official McPhee Reservoir Operating Plan released May 1 made it official - McPhee Reservoir won't fill this year. In fact, the fore...

Sage grouse getting GPS backpacks

Biologists suiting up selected birds to track locations, behavior

Osprey CEO: 'Scrappiness' key

Tom Barney addresses business, government leaders at meeting

Your Colo. tax refunds could disappear

Republicans say bill is subverting state constitution

DAR requests input to place flags at veterans' graves

For the past six years, members of the Sleeping Ute Mountain Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution have marked the graves of veterans in cemeteries in Montezuma County prior to Memori...

Passing grade for student testing?

State lawmakers hopeful they have reached compromise

Rep. Tipton pushes for clarity on grazing on national land

Rules balance needs of bighorn and domestic sheep

Dolores interviews two principal candidates

The public met two candidates being considered for the Dolores High School principal position this week. On Monday, Charles Tracy met with students and teachers. Tracy worked his ...

Reader spots funnel cloud in La Plata County

By Ann Butler Herald Staff Writer While it wasn't "Sharknado," a sighting of a funnel cloud did take place Tuesday morning in La Plata County. Herald reader ...

County plans fire ban update

Restriction on burn barrels would end

Federal-lands bill dies

Fears that measure would have led to closing public lands

Fetal-homicide bill sinks in Colorado

DENVER - Democrats on a Colorado House committee Monday ended an effort to define an unborn child as a "person," which would have allowed prosecutors to file murder charges in attacks agains...