Montezuma County News

The death of a La Plata County female in her mid-20s was associated with H1N1 flu.

CORTEZ The Montezuma Community Economic Development Association, or MCEDA, has some legs under it only a year after launching itself.

Share + Sep 27, 2009 1:53 pm US/Mountain CORTEZ, Colo. A 22-year-old man accused of killing and dismembering his sexually abusive father will spend three years in prison after pleading guilty in an agreement with prosecutors.

As part of his six town hall meetings, State House District 58 Representative Scott Tipton included a Sept.

Make no mistake, Guy Drew is an optimist. Anyone who would choose to make wine at a mile high in a sagebrush-filled canyon where temperatures hover above 100 degrees in August and plunge below zero in February has to be.

If there has been a trend in food and wine this summer, it would be farm-to-table al fresco dining in vineyards.

An armed robbery suspect who held Four Corners officers at bay for several hours was found dead Tuesday after an all-day standoff.

A Montezuma County deputy sheriff was shot during an 18-hour standoff with a man suspected of robbing a liquor store Monday evening.

Colorado authorities say a suspected robber in a 17-hour standoff during which a sheriff's deputy suffered a minor gunshot wound has been found dead in his home in Cortez in Southwest Colorado.

A southwest Colorado sheriff has assigned a deputy to work with farmers and ranchers on disputes over water rights, boundaries and other issues.

A southwest Colorado sheriff has assigned a deputy to work with farmers and ranchers on disputes over water rights, boundaries and other issues.

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Brent Jeffs, a nephew of Mormon fundamentalist Warren Jeffs, was ejected from the church in his teen years.

Affordable-housing projects across Colorado are stalled because the investor market for low-income housing tax credits has dried up.

Montezuma County's commissioners have turned down a proposal to build a disposal facility for oil-and-gas drilling waste adjacent to a national monument and irrigated farm fields.

An Arizona woman has died after her inflatable raft overturned in high water on the Upper Dolores River in southwest Colorado.

In the tidy green swaths of alfalfa, beans and wheat carpeting western Montezuma County, it is easy to overlook a sagebrush-studded field along the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument.

A Cortez woman attacked by two pit bulls survives. The Montezuma County Sheriff's Office said Nancy Thomas went to visit her friend, Jonathan Wilson, on CR 29 outside of Cortez Wednesday morning.

A 45-year-old man is presumed dead after his canoe capsized in the Dolores River on Friday evening.

Hundreds of mountain-bike enthusiasts will converge on May 9 for the 3rd annual "12 Hours of Mesa Verde" bike race, which will take place on the increasingly popular trail system in Cortez known as Phil's World.