Towaoc

On Friday, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold visited Towaoc and met with officials from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe to discuss automatic voter registration for the state’s tribal communities. The Colorado Votes Act passed by the legislature earlier this year means some enrolled tribal members in Colorado will be automatically registered to vote. It’s the first instance of automatic voter registration for enrolled members of tribal nations in the U.S., and is part of a broader election reform package by the Secretary of State’s office. Griswold says that since she was elected in 2019, her office has been considering ways they could try to reverse the historical voter suppression of Native American people in Colorado. And the funeral for the Cortez police officer who was killed in the line of duty last week takes place on Wednesday morning.

The Range of Motion Project is on a mission to provide prosthetics to amputees across the globe. One of their awareness and fundraising initiatives was…

Crews quickly contained a small brush fire near the Ute Mountain Casino late Wednesday afternoon.According to Ute Mountain Fire Chief John Trocheck, the…

More than 200 solar LED lights have been installed along U.S. Highway 160 near the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation.In a release, the Colorado Department of…

The Ute Mountain Housing Authority will receive more than $870,000 from the state Department of Local Affairs for a housing project in Towaoc on the Ute…