[1] The Herald then fell dormant until 1969, when it was revived by Joyce Jorgensen and renamed the Ouray County Plaindealer, which has remained its name.
[2][4][5] In January 2024, the Plaindealer published a story alleging a violent sexual assault against a teenaged girl at the home of the Ouray police chief.
Press reports indicate that "nearly every copy" of the issue was stolen from 12 of the 13 news racks in the county.
[7][8][9] The Plaindealer is a frequent winner of Colorado Press Association awards in its class,[citation needed] and in 2007 publisher David Mullings received the state's "Service to the First" (Amendment) award for initiating legal action against the Ouray County Board of County Commissioners that resulted in an open process of selecting planning commissioners.
[2] In 2021, co-publishers Mike Wiggins and Erin McIntyre jointly received the "Keeper of the Flame" award of the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.