The Montezuma County commissioners are mulling the idea of putting a sales tax on the ballot this year.

Community organizer Rebecca Busic has entered the Montezuma County commissioner race, adding a Democratic candidate to a field previously made up of Republicans.

The City of Cortez is holding an information session for residents considering a run for City Council, as nomination deadlines approach for the April election.

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.

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.

The involvement of a Colorado-based airline in immigration enforcement flights prompted a protest south of Cortez on Saturday morning.

After 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.

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.

Trustees on the Dolores Library Board agree on some issues but continue to argue about others.