The town of Mancos is issuing citations as mandatory watering restrictions continue amid drought and heavy demand on the town’s water system.

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.

The Montezuma County commissioners have discarded the idea of adopting an ordinance regulating rubbish in the county.

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.

Monsoon rains have so far delivered little help with moisture across the region.

A former member of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Council and of the Montezuma-Cortez School Board has been sentenced to life in prison.

Montezuma-Cortez School Superintendent Eddie Ramirez has resigned.

SCYC served 353 students in Mancos last school year through federally funded before- and after-school programs. The program is free and has no waitlist, but transportation home remains a significant barrier for some families.

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.