A coalition of community groups and the Boulder County District Attorney's office has been handing out free gun safes to residents. The idea is to encourage safe storage and have productive conversations about gun safety.

Students may be out of school, but the Mancos School Garden keeps growing. Volunteers help maintain crops that support education and local food banks.

Southwest Memorial Hospital in Cortez has been honored nationally, even as it faces financial struggles that are being shared by many hospitals across the state and nation.

Mystery awakens as the sun sets over the vast emptiness of the Mojave Desert.

Colorado has issued emergency animal movement rules for New World screwworm, while researchers say the Four Corners’ dry climate and cold winters make a local infestation less likely.

Monument plants are blooming in the San Juan Mountains and La Platas, sending up tall flower stalks in a short-lived display after years or decades of growth.

The Montelores Coalition’s first Strike Team projects will support cleanup at Hawkins Preserve, Mancos River restoration and derelict fence removal near Rico.

Because of an enforcement order issued by the state, the Town of Dove Creek soon will be getting its water from a new source. That decision has led to a price increase that made some town residents so angry that the Town Hall has closed because of threats to staff.

Twenty-five years after the murder of Fred Martinez Jr. in Cortez, former Cortez Journal managing editor Gail Binkly reflects on the local reporting that followed and how language around Two Spirit and LGBTQ identity has changed.

Municipal supplies are protected, but Dolores Water Conservancy District says full-service supplies out of McPhee Reservoir are at extreme shortages this year.