Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper would like to see a new political party called the Agriculture First Party. That was one of the comments he made on a hot Thursday afternoon at an overlook to McPhee Reservoir.
The Navajo Nation has passed legislation designating the confluence of the Colorado and the Little Colorado rivers near the Grand Canyon as a sacred site.
The Montezuma County commissioners have discarded the idea of adopting an ordinance regulating rubbish in the county.
The District Re-1 School Board named Montezuma-Cortez Middle School Principal Andrew Pearson as interim superintendent for the district at a special meeting Thursday night.
Monsoon rains have so far delivered little help with moisture across the region.
A former member of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Council and of the Montezuma-Cortez School Board has been sentenced to life in prison.
Montezuma-Cortez School Superintendent Eddie Ramirez has resigned.
SCYC served 353 students in Mancos last school year through federally funded before- and after-school programs. The program is free and has no waitlist, but transportation home remains a significant barrier for some families.
Elementary-school teachers in the Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 School District have been left scrambling to fill in some lessons after the school board dropped a controversial curriculum from its K-5 materials.
After a lengthy discussion, a divided Cortez City Council on Tuesday passed an ordinance that sets the language for a November ballot question. The measure will ask city voters to approve an increase in the lodgers’ tax from the current 2 percent to 6 percent.
A contempt hearing regarding long-running concerns about the Ironwood property south of Dolores has been delayed.
Extreme drought, limited irrigation water and rising production costs are reducing crop yields as Southwest Colorado enters harvest season.
The 2025 measles outbreak in New Mexico cost that state an estimated $5.4 million. That’s according to an analysis in the Annals of Internal Medicine published on Aug. 3.
District officials say temporary cooling measures will be used at three elementary schools while longer-term replacements remain unresolved.
More than 330 organizations and businesses have sent a letter to the Trump administration protesting the drastic reductions in two Utah national monuments.
Cortez native Jadon Cruzan will conduct the world premiere of his new Cortez Overture during a free Four Corners Community Band concert Aug. 15.
Monsoon storms have improved surface moisture in southwest Colorado, but low streamflows, dry deeper soils and weak snowpack impacts remain.
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the City of Cortez over a road closure.
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the City of Cortez over a road closure.
