San Juan County News

Sean Simpson was celebrating the Fourth of July in Silverton on Saturday when he learned that one of his best friends from college had drowned in Chicago.

Three years ago, Floyd Bowman, an amateur or "HAM" radio operator from Cedar Hill, received a message via HAM radio from a man in Durango, Colo.

The town of Silverton and San Juan County have filed a motion to withdraw their complaint claiming they have been neglected by Qwest in a state project to link all county seats with fiber optics.

Qwest has filed a motion to dismiss a complaint from the town of Silverton and San Juan County that they have been unfairly left out of a decade-old state project to link all county seats with fiber optics.

More than 1 billion sheep roam fields, mountains and valleys throughout the world, affording ample opportunity for professional and amateur photographers to capture the woolly animals on film.

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the Grand Junction area jumped from 7.8 percent in March to 8.2 percent in April, according to numbers released Friday by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.

Annual Meeting Set for June 6 in Ouray OURAY - " San Miguel Power Association's power-purchasing members who reside in the cooperative's District 7 can expect an election ballot in the mail for the available seat on SMPA's Board of Directors.

" When the San Juan County Historical Society took control of the Silverton Standard & The Miner last month, it was with the idea that a vital local newspaper contributes to the health of the entire community.

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"Draw not nigh hither; put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground," said God to Moses in Exodus 3:5 on "the mountain of God, even to Horeb" . Today Christians primarily tend to associate sacred places with churches, temples, cathedrals, cemeteries or burial sites.

Colo. teens plot school shooting; arrested in San Juan County after stealing firearms: 2 teens accused of shooting plot at Colo.

DOVE CREEK, Colo. - Authorities say two teenagers arrested in New Mexico on suspicion of burglary and theft planned a shooting spree that was to have begun at a southwestern Colorado high school.

Locals want bus service to Durango and its airport, according to a survey, but officials say high cost and federal law may prevent buses from running there anytime soon.

San Juan County sheriff's deputies have identified a Colorado man who was killed after a tire came loose from a southbound trailer and struck the windshield of an approaching SUV.

Plaindealer staff report A Ouray man charged with vehicular homicide will face a sentencing hearing on April 17 at the San Juan County Courthouse in Silverton.

Drilling rights in San Juan County were sold with little contention in recent months, but acreage of public land in Southwest Colorado is being deferred from lease to oil and gas developers.

Southwestern Colorado District Attorney Craig Westberg broke his neck and was fighting for his life as a result of a mountain biking accident last weekend in Arizona, members of the local legal community told ...

Authorities say La Plata County District Attorney Craig Westberg was injured in a mountain biking accident in Arizona last weekend.

Silverton continues to feel aloof from the rest of Colorado and, for that matter, the world.

I am very concerned about the care at the San Juan Regional Medical Center. On Nov.