A vacancy on the Montezuma-Cortez School District Board may continue indefinitely.

A Cortez man facing federal charges for allegedly making online threats against public officials has pleaded guilty to one count of transmitting interstate threats.

The U.S. Forest Service is working diligently to see that the issue of who owns a 1460-acre parcel in the San Juan National Forest near Mancos is resolved.

A question about a mill-levy override for the Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 school district is missing from the ballots mailed to a portion of voters in the school district.

Proponents for a public safety sales tax in Montezuma County made their case Tuesday at a League of Women Voters presentation in Cortez.

The Colorado Department of Transportation is planning to designate a new school zone on a portion of U.S. Highway 491 and Main Street at the west end of Cortez.

A chunk of a controversial barbed-wire fence around some 1,400 acres on the San Juan National Forest north of Mancos was taken down Thursday afternoon.

Bark beetles are devouring trees in the San Juan National Forest, and this may ultimately mean less shade for recreationists in the popular Boggy Draw area near Dolores.

Cortez’s monsoon season ended, as the saying goes, not with a bang but a whimper. Cortez Animal Shelter kennel supervisor Jennifer Crouse says the shelter has been inundated with cats.

The Cortez Planning and Zoning Commission on Tuesday gave a unanimous thumbs-up to a proposal for a log-home-manufacturing operation near the west entrance to the Carpenter Natural Area off Lebanon Road.