Author - The Durango Herald

Ryan Maye Handy

Position: Staff reporter

Southwest Colorado lawmakers queue up legislation for the year

Southwest Colorado’s legislators have begun the 72nd session proposing several bills that follow up on their mission to address a host of rural issues, including wildfire concerns, health ca...

DATE: Jan 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Purple Mountain Politics

Some Colorado Springs homeowners struggle against the abyss

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Rick Sisco’s home in the Skyway neighborhood has been riding a landslide for months. It started as a crack, became a chasm, then a 13-foot cliff. But bec...

DATE: Feb 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

South Park oil, natural gas prospects concern locals

ABOVE SOUTH PARK (AP) – In a small plane soaring thousands of feet above the expanse of South Park, Jara Johnson surveyed one of the richest landscapes in the state, an area home to endanger...

DATE: Oct 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Cripple Creek operators probe for gold

CRIPPLE CREEK (AP) – For the first time in more than two decades, the Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mining Co. is looking for gold underground, a tentative departure from its open-pit mining...

DATE: Apr 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life