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San Juan Mountains Association to host Cross Canyon volunteer project

San Juan Mountains Association and Canyons of the Ancients National Monument will host a National Public Lands Day event at the trailhead to the Cross Canyon Wilderness Study Area from 7:30 ...

DATE: Sep 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

CBD vapes spiked with dangerous drugs for sale across U.S.

Jay Jenkins says he hesitated when a buddy suggested they vape CBD. “It’ll relax you,” the friend assured. The vapor that Jenkins inhaled didn’t relax him. After two pu...

DATE: Sep 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

No new measles cases reported in fading U.S. outbreak

NEW YORK – The nation’s worst measles epidemic in 27 years could be in its final stages as a week went by with no new reported cases. “To get to zero is tremendously encouraging,”...

DATE: Sep 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

La Plata County Farm Bureau to celebrate 100th anniversary

The La Plata County Farm Bureau will celebrate the Farm Bureau Federation’s 100th anniversary with a “Boots and Blossoms” celebration of agriculture at 6 p.m. Friday at Sky Ute Casino. ...

DATE: Sep 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

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DATE: Sep 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

Discover authors’ favorite haunts on London Literary Pub Crawl

LONDON A bartender asks Gavin Smith whether he fancies a citrus pale ale or Kolsch-style lager at the Newman Arms – a London pub dating back to 1730. The 47-year-old Liphook, Engl...

DATE: Sep 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Mountain Studies Institute to host Falls Creek site tour

Mountain Studies Institute invites the public to tour what the Animas River Community Forum has done to reduce risks from flood and fire in the Falls Creek subdivision. A carpool ...

DATE: Sep 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

U.S. officials revise vaping illness count to 380 in 36 states

NEW YORK – The U.S. government has refined how it is measuring an outbreak of breathing illnesses in people who vape, now counting only cases that are most closely linked to electronic cigar...

DATE: Sep 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

A gene-editing first: Scientists tried CRISPR to fight HIV

Scientists are reporting the first use of the gene-editing tool CRISPR to try to cure a patient’s HIV infection by providing blood cells that were altered to resist the AIDS virus. ...

DATE: Sep 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Report says airlines’ carbon emissions are growing fast

U.S. airlines are increasing their emissions of climate-changing gases much faster than they are boosting fuel efficiency, according to an environmental group’s report. The Intern...

DATE: Sep 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

50 years ago, they thought an atomic bomb would lead to a natural gas boom

On Sept. 10, 1969, 6½ miles south of Rulison, a 40-kiloton nuclear bomb exploded in the subterranean depths of the Piceance Basin. The device, more than twice as powerful as the w...

DATE: Sep 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

High Noon Rotary to meet

High Noon Rotary will meet at 11:45 a.m. Thursday at DoubleTree Hotel, 501 Camino del Rio. Dr. Don May will discuss the Fort Lewis College Village Aid Project in Nicaragua. ...

DATE: Sep 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Community