Gail Binkly
News ReporterGail Binkly is a career journalist who has worked for the Colorado Springs Gazette and Cortez Journal, and was the editor of the Four Corners Free Press, based in Cortez.
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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.
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The Montezuma County commissioners have discarded the idea of adopting an ordinance regulating rubbish in the county.
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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.
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Monsoon rains have so far delivered little help with moisture across the region.
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A former member of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Council and of the Montezuma-Cortez School Board has been sentenced to life in prison.
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Montezuma-Cortez School Superintendent Eddie Ramirez has resigned.
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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.
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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.
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A contempt hearing regarding long-running concerns about the Ironwood property south of Dolores has been delayed.
