Cortez

A house fire in Cortez early Tuesday morning was attributed to an improperly vented wood-burning stove. Cortez Police Lt. Andy Brock said two people were in the home, on North Edith Street, when...

About 80 percent of households that were surveyed about internet services say they are unhappy with their internet speeds. Telecom specialists at CCG Consulting, of North Carolina, conducted a...

Local waste haulers told Montezuma County commissioners and a landfill manager that a recycling program and steep increase in disposal fees will be a challenge for their businesses. In October,...

Four partners have a plan to subdivide and sell eight lots of lakefront property on Lake Totten to prospective homebuilders. The proposed lots would be the first homes directly on the lakefront....

A 22nd Judicial District judge ruled Thursday that a Dolores man is no longer required to register as a sex offender. Dustin Ray Wall, 30, pleaded guilty in June 2014 to sexual assault and...

Jim Candelaria received two items of good news on Tuesday night. In addition to winning the election for Montezuma County Board of Commissioners, the Cortez Planning and Zoning Commission...

Republican Rep. Marc Catlin, of Montrose, has been elected to represent the 58th District House of Representative seat in the Colorado Legislature. Districtwide, he got 62.97 percent of the vote...

Voters in Montezuma and Dolores counties have retained 22nd Judicial District Judge Todd Jay Plewe and Montezuma County Court Judge JenniLynn Lawrence. Based on incomplete results as of 8:30 p.m.,...

Preliminary results in the election for District 1 of the Montezuma County Commission show it is a close race between Republican Jim Candelaria and Democrat MB McAfee with about 1,376 ballots to...

Montezuma County is seeing high turnout for the 2018 midterm elections, according to the Colorado secretary of state and the Montezuma County clerk. By 7 p.m. Tuesday, 10,800 ballots had been...