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Firewise offers chipper rental rebate

FireWise of Southwest Colorado is offering a Chipper Rental Rebate Program for residents needing to reduce the slash from wildfire…

Cortez Middle School staging ‘Jungle Book’

New play emphasizes importance of loyalty, relationships

Kinder Morgan to drill new well

Neighbor concerned about industrial impacts

Environmental Protection Agency proposes Superfund for San Juan County

Effort to address toxic leaks in wake of Gold King Mine spill

M-CHS prom king and queen

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Workshop to teach apple grafting Growing Partners of Southwest Colorado and the Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project will host a hands-on…

Cruz makes clean sweep of Colorado

Republican takes all pledged delegates

Snapshots from the Home & Garden Show

Four Corners Home & Garden show runs through Saturday

School attendance

Second trimester

Eclectic Aromas opens in Cortez

Three boutiques fill two shops downtown on just east of Market Street

Cortez Cleanup coming April 18

Is it time to clean up your yard, garage or shed? The annual Cortez Cleanup Week is April 18-22, and…

Beauty salon opens in Cortez

Brandee Simmons has opened a beauty spa at 37 E. Main offering eyelash extensions, facials, microderm abrasion, and tanning.Sam Green/The…

Little Loves Boutique opens in Cortez

Kayla Maynard, owner of Little Loves Boutique, stands in her store at 40 E. Main St.The Journal Little Loves Boutique…

Cortez parks users want softball, trail improvements

Dean Palmquist explains the results of a survey seeking input on a 10-year plan for the Cortez Parks and Recreation…

Four Corners Home and Garden Show underway

Jaynee Crockett sets up the information booth at the Four Corners Home and Garden Show with the help of 4-month-old…

Forest Service wants Purgatory to deal with hazardous trees

Removal of dead trees scheduled for this summer

In rural Colorado, outreach aims to reduce suicides

In many Western Slope counties, guns used 60 percent of time

U.S. Supreme Court to hear Colorado case

Defendant argues racial slurs deprived him of impartial jury

West braces for rise in mosquito-borne diseases

Aedes aegypti, the mosquito species known to cause Zika virus, fills up on human blood.U.S. Department of Agriculture Sammie Dickson,…

White-nose syndrome comes to the West

Researchers race to find solutions for deadly bat disease

Colorado Legislature kills fracking bill that would have given local control

Two Democrats join Republicans in opposition

Colorado legislative committee leaves teen sexting bill in limbo

Lawmakers deeply conflicted

Clean Power Plan overshadows state budget debate

GOP state senators strip funding for fed program

Giant wide screen

Ute Mountain Ute elder Emily Whiteman, center, officially turned on the new Ute Mountain Casino sign along with the tribal…