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 ...

Speaking of Trails 2000, the local trail fairies have been hard at work re-aligning the popular Mike’s Trail in Horse Gulch. Along with the rest of the Gulch, Mike’s sustained heavy damage in the ...

Mark Redwine was booked into the La Plata County Jail at 4:56 p.m. Monday following extradition from Whatcom County, in northwestern Washington. La Plata County Sheriff’s deputies took custody of ...

After seven years with the Fort Lewis College Environmental Center – five at the helm – Executive Director Rachel Landis is moving on. “I, in true Millennial form, am embracing my next phase of ...

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 ...

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, ...