As Colorado prepares for summer tourism, visitors planning trips to rural communities might assume that if they have a medical emergency, they will receive the same level of emergency care they would at home. However, that’s not always the case. Rural communities may lack a hospital or even a fully staffed emergency response team. For example, the rural Hinsdale County Emergency Medical Services recently lost its only paramedic. That’s left the county’s EMS system in a pinch ahead of its peak tourism season.

With post-2026 negotiations deadlocked and legal tensions rising, the Colorado River's emergency actions buy a year at best, leaving the basin's deeper challenges unresolved.

The iconic, controversial structure becomes Colorado River’s biggest water chokepoint.

A hillside failure shut down the Fire Mountain Canal last week. Repairs are now underway. Plus: a cooler, wetter April has extended spring runoff by nearly a month. And two routine lead tests in Fruitland Mesa are a reminder that your public health system is working.

The Montrose School Board voted to hire Miller Farmer Carlson Law, a controversial law firm whose founder has faced accusations of asserting a far-right agenda on school boards

Experts weigh in on what we learned during the region’s worst drought on record, and how those lessons might help us this year

A group of North Fork Valley women are hosting a community grief series in Paonia — creating a structured, ritual space for people to process loss, uncertainty, and the pressures of this moment. Two events remain.

Democrats Dwayne Romero and Alex Kelloff will face off in Colorado's Third Congressional District Primary in June.

Kelloff will face Dwayne Romero in the June Democratic Primary

A hillside slippage has forced a full shutdown of the Fire Mountain Canal, cutting off irrigation water to nearly 500 water users on the North Fork of the Gunnison. Superintendent Steve Fletcher says repairs — involving 200 feet of eight-foot pipe — could take two to three weeks.