Cortez Journal

Local News

Downtown Cortez road project includes medians, crosswalks

unveils plan to close some turn lanes

January 12, 2017

Local News

Cortez preservationists seek to restart Montezuma Avenue Historic District

Proposed changes to city’s land-use code slowed project

January 9, 2017

Local News

Cortez Fire District hires 4 full-time firefighters

Fire District hires full-time employees

January 2, 2017

Local News

Gas, propane prices to rise in 2017

in oil prices hits Southwest Colorado hard

December 29, 2016

Local News

Cortez capital projects to be completed in 2017

improvements, street repairs continue

December 29, 2016

Local News

Regional banks to finance Southwest Memorial construction

Construction moves forward

December 28, 2016

Local News

Cortez’s Christmas Bird Count turns up new feathered friends

Christmas Bird Count turns up new species

December 28, 2016

Local News

Local institutions to finance hospital construction

Construction moves forward on hospital

December 23, 2016

Southwest Life

An audio tour of the Trail of the Ancients is coming in 2017

will fund podcasts about regional landmarks

December 21, 2016

Local News

Cortez council rejects marijuana grow in industrial park

council votes 4-3, cites extra police cost and need for new excise tax

December 16, 2016

Local News

GOCO grant will fund Manaugh school garden

Jayden Evans and Tristan Joe break ground for a water line for the Mesa Elementary School garden in June. A…

December 14, 2016

Nation & World

How Ignacio turned its failing school district around

But when the spring 2015 test results were released this fall, the district became one of only two in the…

December 2, 2016

Local News

Landowner puts bike park in conservation easement

Landowner provides access from North Mildred Road

November 27, 2016

Local News

Election shows internet a priority in Montezuma County

opens door to county proposal for a tax-funded broadband utility

November 17, 2016

Local News

Standing Rock protesters share stories in Cortez

help out in effort to stop pipeline

November 16, 2016

Local News

Cortez high school demolition moving forward

approved use of $1.8 million for project

November 16, 2016

Local News

Cortez church prepares for annual Thanksgiving dinner

Volunteers serve up a Thanksgiving Day dinner at St. Barnabas Church in 2013. From right are Jazmon Clark, Christie Berner,…

November 16, 2016

Local News

Protesters ask Wells Fargo to stop funding pipeline

Demonstrators oppose Dakota Access Pipeline

November 15, 2016

Local News

Cortez council approves solar panels for new City Hall

Durango company will install array

November 11, 2016

Local News

Dolores County elects new commissioners

also pass ambulance mill levy, opt out of SB152

November 10, 2016

Local News

Hospital construction project begins

Construction has begun for the Southwest Memorial Hospital remodel and addition. The current hospital improvement plan includes a new 20-bed…

November 6, 2016

Local News

Centuries of reckoning at Standing Rock

to understand the pipeline protests? Start with the Founding Fathers

November 3, 2016

Local News

When truancy laws don’t work

A New Mexico principal ponders a tougher approach

October 24, 2016

Local News

Kemper Elementary jumps to top state rating

‘Everyone was on board, and we gave it 110 percent’

October 21, 2016