City of Cortez

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.

As it has in previous years, the Cortez City Council last week passed a proclamation declaring June as Pride Month for LGBTQS+ people. This time, however, the proclamation drew objections from two council members.

Governor Polis signs a bill to protect educators from pressure to remove books from school libraries, while Cortez renews its Urban Forestry program. Other updates include health-related resignations in Arizona, a proposed tobacco tax delay in the Navajo Nation, and wildfire mitigation efforts across the West.

The beauty of trees is now on the minds of many of Cortez’s residents and library patrons, as a beloved willow just outside the library is set to be removed.

The Independent Log Company got the go-ahead Tuesday night for its proposed wood-processing operation near the Carpenter Natural Area in Cortez.

The skate park in Cortez’s Parque de Vida is physically unsafe. That was the message several people gave the Cortez City Council at its regular meeting Tuesday night.

An owner of the Independent Log Company gave a tour Saturday morning to 15 citizens concerned about the company’s proposed project in Cortez.

The city of Cortez has released its draft Safety Action Plan.

Just 1 percent of all the traffic crashes that happened in Cortez during the five-year period from 2018 through 2022 involved fatalities.

By a margin of just three votes, former Montezuma County Commissioner Larry Don Suckla has officially won the Republican primary for state House District 58. And the City of Cortez and Cortez Police Department have launched a project to improve safety for all forms of transportation in the city.