Guns are ubiquitous here. For shooting prairie dogs and rattlesnakes. For hunting deer and elk. For putting down a suffering animal. For deterring predators. For fun.
Free sandbags and sand are available for Dolores and upriver residents who are experiencing flooding from recent rain and snowmelt.
Empty sandbags are available at Dolores Town Hall Monday through Fri.
Tim Lanier, a longtime Montezuma County rancher and public servant, has died.
Lanier, of Pleasant View, a candidate for the District 1 seat for the Montezuma County Board of County Commissioners but l.
Emergency crews responded to a house fire Sunday morning on Road 29.1 east of Cortez.
The two residents escaped unharmed, but two dogs died in the blaze, said Battalion Chief Charlie Borden of the Cor.
A surge of pressure that stirred up sediment in a Cortez water line also stirred up inmates at the Montezuma County Detention Center on Thursday night, city and county officials said.
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