Author – The Durango Herald

Colorado wolf attacks continue; rancher fights for compensation, and hazing fails

Walden rancher says he’s lost three calves. He’s tried wild burros, fox lights, flags and cracker shells

DATE: Jun 6, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado’s controversial public guardianship program scrutinized in legislative budget battle

Lawmakers are concerned about deaths of 14 wards in two years and a lack of oversight

DATE: Apr 6, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Fed-up conservative moms are winning in Colorado, and they don’t plan to stop

After two years of pandemic frustrations, new conservative groups are sprouting across Colorado as women lead the GOP ballot

DATE: Mar 16, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado lawmakers want to spell it out: It’s legal for kids to play outside alone

A bipartisan measure would clarify that it isn’t child abuse for children to play outside or stay home without parents

DATE: Feb 18, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado ranchers who have lost livestock to wolves want to know if anyone hears them

Cattlemen say lethal force needed to get rid of the problem

DATE: Jan 31, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Advocates to push for overhaul of Colorado’s youth residential centers

Facilities are closing, staff is quitting and children are getting worse – not better

DATE: Dec 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Former youth corrections campus eyed for homeless center east of Denver

WATKINS (AP) – On the treeless flatlands east of Denver, in a field of yellow-brown weeds that feels like the middle of nowhere, sits an empty campus with seven dormitories, 500 beds, a cafe...

DATE: Nov 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Northwest Colorado wild horse roundup ends with 70% of the herd removed

About 100 fewer horses than expected were rounded up via helicopter after national outcry, plea from governor

DATE: Sep 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Homeless campers in Colorado’s national forests increase during pandemic

Ranger sees illegal sites proliferate in the Pike National Forest

DATE: Sep 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

BLM to remove 80% of wild mustang herd from Sand Wash Basin in Colorado

733 horses from northwestern Colorado targeted despite protests from Polis, advocates

DATE: Sep 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Methadone clinics in Colorado have doubled in 3 years

Most counties in state lack help for people addicted to opioids

DATE: Feb 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver-area students organize social media blackout

Movement draws attention to recent suicides

DATE: Oct 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News