The Montezuma County commissioners on Tuesday defended their support for creating a national conservation area on the Dolores River.

A Dollar General store proposed at Highway 145 and Road N got yet another thumbs-down from Montezuma County on Tuesday.

The impacts of President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” to health care will be devastating. That was the message delivered by one Colorado senator, four Colorado congresspeople, the state’s governor, and some members of the health-care industry during a Zoom press conference Wednesday.

Fire restrictions are being implemented throughout the local area as residents hope for monsoon rains to arrive soon. On Tuesday, the Montezuma County commissioners reinstated a fire ban across all unincorporated areas of the county, starting Wednesday at 6 a.m.

Cortez officials are not planning a highway bypass around the city. That message was emphasized Wednesday night at an open house about the city’s new Transportation Master Plan.

A controversial proposal to place a Dollar General store between Cortez and Dolores got a second chance before the Montezuma County commissioners Tuesday.

Southwest Memorial Hospital in Cortez is one of six hospitals in Colorado that could wind up closing if the federal budget reconciliation bill passes in its current form.

Could the popular Phil’s World bicycling trail system east of Cortez be put up for sale in the near future? The answer appears to be yes, if the federal budget reconciliation bill in its current form becomes law.

Approximately 750 people joined in a peaceful rally Saturday on Cortez’s Main Street to protest the policies of the Trump administration.

More than 3 million acres of federal public lands in the West could be put up for sale under the latest budget reconciliation proposal put forth by the U.S. Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee.