Ouray News

The snowfall overnight was minor compared to last week's big snow storm, but it was still enough to create slick and icy roads Saturday morning.

All right Colorado, take two. Lawmakers - and film buffs - are taking another crack at boosting Colorado's incentives for film production companies, saying the state is missing out on helping its local economies because it lags behind other states in giving more lucrative deals to the movie industry.

Bighorn sheep had their own agenda just north of Ouray on Hwy. 550. Traffic was reduced to one lane because, well, the bighorn had the other lane.

Harmonica-packing Ouray native Gertrude Perotti, one of the last of a pioneer ranching generation, died last week at 95.

Gertrude Perotti, of Ridgway, Co., born March 17, 1916 in Placerville, CO, died January 23, 2012 at Valley Manor in Montrose .

The day the lights went out last week at Allonhill's Denver offices sparked a mega-wattage of ingenuity from the suddenly idle staff.

In the interest of getting the snow totals from yesterday and last night out as quickly as possible, there won't be much of a preamble, and there will be a follow-up report shortly with five-day totals, terrain updates, a forecast and road conditions Three highways are closed: Loveland Pass, Highway 550 between Ouray and Silverton , and Highway 285 ... (more)