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Estimated population of endangered squirrel plummets after wildfire in Arizona

PHOENIX – An endangered squirrel species’ estimated population has plummeted since a major wildfire burned much of its habitat atop a southeastern Arizona mountain last summer. An...

U.S. vaccine panel to discuss waning effectiveness, new shots

NEW YORK – Two years ago, George Green got stabbing pain and bad blisters around his right arm. It was the worst case of shingles his doctor had ever seen. “I said, ‘Wait a minute...

Gay rodeo draws cowboys, drag queens to Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS – Chris Tobin leans on a fence and ices his face after riding a bull and a steer minutes apart. A pad on his helmet somehow smacked his face, leaving him with a black eye, one of t...

And the West is History

100 years ago: In response to the “plenty of water on hand and no limit as to hours” in Durango, all water consumers were “earnestly requested to sprinkle the street in front of their pr...

And the West is History

100 years ago: A shortage of gasoline was reported, and “there seemed to be a rustle on the part of several to stock up.” 75 years ago: A dance at the Long Lane school was ...

Brutal conditions challenge workers on Manitou Incline

COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) – With both feet planted firmly so as not to slip and tumble down into the clouds, Hugo Benitez glanced over his shoulder, down to the shrouded ties and water-diverting...

FDA approves better vaccine against painful shingles virus

U.S. regulators have approved a new, more effective vaccine to prevent painful shingles, which is caused by the chickenpox virus. Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said the Food and Drug ...

Farm Service Agency reminds farmers, ranchers of loan opportunities

Jenny Peterson, executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Colorado Farm Service Agency, reminds farmers and ranchers that the agency offers farm-ownership and farm-operating l...

Pine beetle poses threat to Southwest Colorado forests

3 species combine to kill ponderosa trees near Vallecito

What haunted houses tell us about ourselves and our past

What do they tell us about ourselves, our past?

Ultra-personal therapy: Gene tumor boards guide cancer care

SAN DIEGO – Doctors were just guessing a decade ago when they gave Alison Cairnes’ husband a new drug they hoped would shrink his lung tumors. Now she takes it, but the choice was no guesswo...

Taking selfies with llamas? Leaning out of a helicopter? Photographer Gray Malin has done it all

Winter is coming, but you wouldn’t know it flipping through Gray Malin’s new book. “Escape,” Malin’s latest collection of travel photographs, can transport you from the sun-drench...
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