Consider yourself warned: there’s a new dog sheriff in town. On Jan. 1, the City of Durango took over animal control and ...

Hillcrest Golf Course’s longtime Superintendent Will Herz is heading on to greener, uh, fairways. Last week, the course ...

“Governments – deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed – That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to ...

First, a quote from Ben Franklin: “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ...

It seems to many that the political climate in this country evokes in most citizens a feeling of discouragement, disdain or apathy. This is largely due to the fact that the issues that affect us all ...

Gary Watkins plays, 5:30-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. “Route Planning: How Mapping Tools Can Level Up Your Recreation,” avalanche and backcountry skills presented by Friends of the San ...

Where once a river ran, the Dolores River has all but disappeared in its lower reaches below McPhee Dam this summer, another causality of an intense drought that has gripped Southwest Colorado.

A local developer in Moab has broken ground on an Edward Abbey-themed subdivision, with street names paying homage to the iconic environmentalist’s works. But now, friends of Abbey say, that for a man ...

As communities across Colorado grapple with an onslaught of short-term vacation rentals through sites like AirBnB and VRBO, the city of Durango, oddly enough, is far ahead of the game when it comes to ...

Recently, you may have seen headlines in the news proclaiming that the small mountain town of Rico could become Colorado’s next major hot springs resort destination, á la Pagosa Springs or Glenwood ...

A coal shortage at a mine in Southwest Colorado has left some people who rely on the fuel to heat their homes scrambling this winter. “It’s just a bad situation for everyone involved,” Dan Huntington, ...

(Editor’s note: The following is the first in a new column written by students in Solana Kline’s upper-level Environment and Society course at Fort Lewis College. The column will focus on local ...