The Mesa Verde Writers Conference will take place in September this year after organizers cited summer crowds and heat in southwest Colorado.

Severe drought across the Four Corners is raising irrigation concerns for farmers, while high fertilizer prices and dry wheat fields add pressure nationwide.

In this Water Wednesday report, Jay Loshert explains current river flows on the Dolores, Animas, and San Juan, and describes how federal emergency releases from Flaming Gorge and reduced flows from Glen Canyon Dam—intended to protect Lake Powell’s critically low levels—will significantly affect boating conditions on stretches of the Green River, Cataract Canyon, and the Grand Canyon, urging boaters to check local gauges before trips.

Some roads are more than just a way from one place to another.

KSJD speaks with veteran local reporter Gail Binkley about turnout, council turnover, campaign controversies, and what happens next.

Widespread drought and fears of a power crisis is forcing the Interior Department to start sending billions of gallons of water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir downstream to prop up Lake Powell.

The Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 school board voted to end ties with ERBOCES and CLAS, continuing governance changes under its new majority.

As conventional funding methods become more uncertain, and the Trump administration's hostility towards scientific research continues, geologist Jonathan Stine decided to try crowdfunding as a way to pay for the cost of his research in Southeastern Utah.

The Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 school district is cutting ties with a highly controversial attorney who has worked for the district for the past four years.

A Colorado State Patrol trooper used what’s called a tactical vehicle intervention, or TVI, on April 8 east of Cortez to halt a Jeep Gladiator traveling the wrong way along Highway 160.