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

Of the five counties in Region 9, Montezuma County is the least expensive for a family of four to live in.

“You can look at a piece of brush and just yell ‘fire’ and it will start.” That’s how Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin described current drought conditions to the county commissioners at their workshop on Monday.

Hovenweep National Monument on the Utah-Colorado border is one of ten monuments in the Southwest that are at risk of losing federal protections.

Following a lengthy executive session with their attorney, the Montezuma County commissioners on Tuesday delayed the continuation of two public hearings on applications for after-the-fact variances. And it’s warm and dry in the Four Corners, and those conditions are likely to continue for some time.

The future of three national monuments in the Four Corners area is now highly uncertain.

Proposed after-the-fact land-use variances prompted concern among the Montezuma County commissioners at their meeting Tuesday.

A recently announced award of $25.6 million to the Southwestern Water Conservation District to mitigate the effects of drought has been put into doubt by an executive order from the Trump administration.

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More than a hundred people braved the bitter cold in Cortez on Saturday morning to take part in a rally and what was called the People’s March.