Saying her decision came “with a heavy heart and following deep reflection,” Cortez Mayor Rachel Medina announced her resignation at Tuesday’s meeting of the city council.

The Montezuma County Sheriff’s Office honored a number of its employees for notable service at a ceremony Friday night in Cortez.

About 150 people held a vigil in Cortez on Saturday in remembrance of Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old woman shot dead in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

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.