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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Saying her decision came “with a heavy heart and following deep reflection,” Cortez Mayor Rachel Medina announced her resignation at Tuesday’s meeting of the city council. -
The Montezuma County Sheriff’s Office honored a number of its employees for notable service at a ceremony Friday night in Cortez.
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About 150 people held a vigil in Cortez on Saturday in remembrance of Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old woman shot dead in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
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The Montezuma County commissioners are mulling the idea of putting a sales tax on the ballot this year.
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About 175 people protested on Cortez’s Main Street on Tuesday to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and attack on the Capitol. And the hike-able warm weather has a down side: lower snowpacks. -
Concerns about violence have prompted the Ute Mountain Ute tribal council to implement a nighttime curfew on the reservation.
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Will 2026 be the year that a national conservation area is created on the lower Dolores River? Proponents of the long-stalled effort are hoping it will.
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The involvement of a Colorado-based airline in immigration enforcement flights prompted a protest south of Cortez on Saturday morning.
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Re-1 school board hires law firm to review contracts; GOCO awards $2.6 million in Southwest ColoradoAfter a lengthy discussion during a very lengthy meeting, the Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 school board voted Tuesday night to engage a law firm to review contracts for the district’s new and departing superintendents. And GOCO, or Great Outdoors Colorado, has awarded $2.6 million to projects in Southwest Colorado.
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Two more people in Montezuma County have come down with the measles, bringing the total number of cases in the county this year to four.
