Some 45 people turned out at Thursday night’s meeting of the Montezuma County Planning and Zoning Commission to voice opposition to a proposed “glamping” development near Mancos. At the end of the two-and-a-half-hour hearing on the proposal, the commission voted 3 to 2 to recommend denial.

The Montezuma County commissioners want to hear from the public about the idea of placing a temporary moratorium on major solar-energy developments in the county.

The Four Corners saw a little more moisture than usual falling from the sky last month. But the area remains in moderate drought. There’s hopeful news, though. Snow has fallen in the mountains for the past few days, with at least a foot reportedly dropping on Wolf Creek Pass, Red Mountain Pass, and Coal Bank Pass in southwestern Colorado.

Concerns about impacts to ranching and tourism following federal budget cuts voiced by demonstrators at local events at Mesa Verde National Park and the Dolores Public Lands Office.

The Mancos Conservation District is working to deal with the abrupt pullback of a $630,000 grant it had received from the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Montezuma County is already feeling the impacts of sweeping cuts to the budgets of federal agencies

Hundreds of people waited in vain Monday for an aide to U.S. Representative Jeff Hurd to show up at a meeting in Dolores.

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.