With 14 fourteeners, the San Juan Mountains are the third-busiest in the state behind the Front Range (Pike’s and Long Peak) ...

Booker Brenneman inside the newly re-opened Graze Colorado, off the alley on 7th Street between Main and E. 2nd. The local ...

Move 1: He demonized the undocumented by declaring that undocumented border crossings represented a threat to democracy, and he promised to institute “police state” programs to curtail them. He made ...

It’s happening earlier and earlier every year. At the start of the new millennium, the black bears living around Durango typically started emerging from their winter dens around mid-April. Today, ...

America’s richest family is getting into the mountain biking biz. Walmart heirs Sam and Ben Walton – both avid riders – are breaking ground on a new bike park in Pitkin County. The 4.7-mile trail ...

The Durango-La Plata County Airport just opened a new wing, complete with a sparkly baggage carousel, local artwork and new sitting area. If we have to wait for our luggage, may as well be comfy. La ...

In regard to the upcoming primary election for La Plata County Treasurer, I would like to make the important distinction between speaking “negatively” of an elected official versus holding one ...

(Editor’s note: The following is a response from the La Plata County Farm Bureau and La Plata County Cattlemen’s Association on the Durango Wolf Symposium Nov. 29 at Fort Lewis College. The piece was ...

LPEA’s new 10-year deal to buy hydro power from Vallecito Dam is being pitched as a win for local clean energy. In reality, it’s a small, unreliable and likely expensive gesture that does little to ...

Between Elon Musk’s brief, disastrous tenure with the misnamed “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) and the Republicans’ mad rush to gut health care and food assistance for millions of ...