Regional News https://www.durangoherald.com/feeds/regional-news/ 2026-05-11 11:49:47 -0700 en-us https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/colorado-wolf-restoration-at-a-tenuous-time-amid-high-mortality-rate-federal-pressure/ It’s been more than two years since Gov. Jared Polis opened metal crates in northwest Colorado, kicking off a voter-mandated effort to restore wolves almost a century after hunters and trappers eradic... 2026-05-10 03:00:00 -0700 93503789-7bb0-41a2-817c-29365fb484d4 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/frontier-plane-hits-kills-person-on-runway-during-takeoff-at-denver-airport/ A Frontier Airlines plane taking off from Denver International Airport struck and killed a person on a runway Friday night, airport authorities said, sparking an engine fire and forcing passengers to ... 2026-05-09 11:46:29 -0700 d83a8479-2e55-4aa4-b54f-a0194f58031b https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/colorado-democratic-gubernatorial-candidates-face-off-in-first-televised-debate/ Democratic gubernatorial candidates U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser faced off in their first televised debate ahead of the June 30 primary election Thursday evening.... 2026-05-08 02:29:51 -0700 ae29b368-82cc-4d16-96b9-33da2da4b841 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/effort-to-attract-data-centers-to-colorado-with-tax-incentives-fails/ Colorado lawmakers have pulled the plug on a bill to offer steep tax breaks for data centers, the energy-hungry facilities behind the artificial intelligence boom and other cloud-based software produc... 2026-05-08 12:58:08 -0700 2b2397e0-f8b0-4178-afd4-e41c766a94d0 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/boulder-firebomber-pleads-guilty-gets-life-in-prison/ Mohamed Soliman will spend the rest of his life in prison. All that’s left to determine is how long that life will be. If he gets his way, it may be short. Soliman, 46, pleaded guilty Thursday to more... 2026-05-07 04:29:27 -0700 04eec75f-dde7-4b65-b4ec-55154f59f5ea https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/fuel-spill-from-train-truck-collision-highlights-dangers-of-moving-oil-by-rail/ A fuel spill after a tanker-truck, passenger-train collision in Rifle on Wednesday morning put a spotlight on the dangers of transporting fossil fuels in and around Union Pacific’s train tracks that f... 2026-05-07 01:52:51 -0700 ba85a21f-fb97-4cd6-a389-534dc9ced959 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/1876-marked-the-start-of-colorados-decades-long-free-silver-crusade/ The special cargo arrived on the evening of May 3, 1876, on a westbound express train to Denver, where it was watched carefully and wheeled in through the side door at the Colorado National Bank. The ... 2026-05-06 01:59:50 -0700 0990f811-63c0-414b-ae94-6b1e43fb2f88 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/its-been-a-very-deadly-year-so-far-for-colorado-motorcyclists/ Colorado is seeing its deadliest start to a year for motorcycles in almost a decade. Fifteen motorcyclists were killed on Colorado roads between January and March, according to the Colorado Department... 2026-05-05 02:38:18 -0700 cfabd624-8c8e-4977-9859-3b521f745cce https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/states-across-the-wildfire-prone-western-u-s-are-using-ai-for-early-detection/ On a March afternoon, artificial intelligence detected something resembling smoke on a camera feed from Arizona’s Coconino National Forest. Human analysts verified it wasn't a cloud or dust, then aler... 2026-05-04 01:49:49 -0700 5e036b83-bdc3-4871-8b91-976705db1182 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/exemptions-to-colorados-right-to-repair-laws-shot-down-in-house-committee/ A bill that would have carved out exceptions to Colorado’s right-to-repair laws was voted down 7-4 in a House committee Monday. The proposal, Senate Bill 90, arrived after three consecutive years of l... 2026-05-01 03:00:00 -0700 155a5c7c-63f6-4bca-aafe-090140f662e7 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/two-colorado-parks-and-wildlife-commissioners-resign/ One governor-appointed commissioner to the Colorado Parks and Wildlife board was confirmed by the Senate on April 24 and two will not be confirmed after they withdrew their nominations just before the... 2026-04-30 06:15:31 -0700 a3587171-6440-4085-ba60-2e5a53987d7a https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/amid-budget-cuts-legislators-and-statewide-officeholders-set-for-pay-increase-next-year/ The winners of elections for legislative seats and statewide offices in November can expect to receive larger paychecks than elected officials get now. A set of pay increases that resulted from a 2024... 2026-04-30 05:39:19 -0700 40396537-6eed-4c05-94a9-8e43af909954 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/the-blotter-april-24-26/ La Plata County Sheriff’s Office Friday 10:04 a.m. Someone contacted deputies to say they had camera footage of a police chase that occurred in Nighthorse Circle. 1:50 p.m. Campers on County R... 2026-04-29 09:22:55 -0700 df23a05e-9ce9-43c9-a04b-7e600c2a77d4 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/proposed-ban-on-sports-prop-bets-dies-amid-state-budget-woes/ Proposition bets are popular in Colorado – too popular (and lucrative) to kill. State lawmakers voted Tuesday morning to remove a proposed ban on prop bets from Senate Bill 131, a larger sports gambli... 2026-04-22 04:04:33 -0700 eca6b306-09a2-4b3b-82b4-bfab475995fa https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/crossword-test/ ... 2026-04-21 11:27:42 -0700 ab773ada-7422-421f-b79c-ea89101be575 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/jury-finds-that-ticketmaster-live-nation-had-anticompetitive-monopoly-over-big-concert-venues/ A jury has found that concert giant Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary had a harmful monopoly over big concert venues, dealing the company a loss in a lawsuit over claims brought by dozens of... 2026-04-20 02:14:49 -0700 389604b9-394f-4d0a-a08c-fb05be9b80ed https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/jared-polis-says-colorado-needs-a-new-prison-asap-how-did-we-get-here/ A dramatic decrease in the number of people in prison being granted parole and a slew of recent laws that lengthen sentences is causing Colorado’s adult prison population to balloon, experts and advoc... 2026-04-16 04:18:07 -0700 de492334-f071-472e-9218-bc177f47b519 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/olathe-sweet-corns-most-famous-grower-scales-back-operations/ Roughly 40 years after farmer John Harold introduced Olathe sweet corn to the world, he and his family are scaling back their growing plans for a crop that’s become a symbol of the Western Slope. The ... 2026-04-16 04:17:00 -0700 9f7353a7-8a91-4fdb-97fd-1f91654b3a03 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/the-blotter-april-10-13/ La Plata County Sheriff’s Office Friday 8:03 a.m. Someone on Edgemont Highlands called deputies because they wanted to shoot their neighbor’s cat for antagonizing the caller’s dog. 8:11 p.m. ... 2026-04-14 04:53:14 -0700 3ed5cf9f-a9a1-4e43-8414-46ed3d17b44e https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/early-colorado-brewers-celebrated-the-centennial-with-a-commemorative-bock-beer/ By early 1876, Lake City, one of the mining boomtowns, recently sprung up in the Colorado Territory’s San Juan Mountains, was home to an organized school district, a dance hall and an amateur theater ... 2026-04-13 04:20:12 -0700 7eab02c2-f800-4b2f-a883-30222e3aed7c https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/elon-musks-xai-sues-colorado-over-ai-consumer-protection-law/ An artificial intelligence platform that generated messages last year describing itself as “MechaHitler” while highlighting individuals’ Jewish surnames says Colorado has no legal basis for protection... 2026-04-13 12:19:17 -0700 89186834-80aa-43fa-be98-098f85e7498c https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/the-blotter-april-3-10/ La Plata County Sheriff’s Office April 3 4:59 p.m. Someone found a lost dog and reported it to deputies on County Road 321. 8:11 p.m. Someone reported a car passed them on a double-yellow lin... 2026-04-10 07:25:32 -0700 6490d331-c35f-4e51-b9d7-25810e4d3962 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/tina-peters-attorney-says-team-is-weighing-options-in-light-of-appeals-court-ruling/ The legal team for former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters said they are weighing next steps after a Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that she was improperly sentenced in 2024 and should receive a new sen... 2026-04-06 05:10:12 -0700 d8b10c89-8f3c-47eb-87fa-d1dfd28d84ba https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/democrat-will-run-unopposed-in-primary-seeking-to-unseat-boebert/ Eileen Laubacher will be the sole Democrat on the June primary ballot in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District race, according to the results Thursday of the Democratic assembly for the district. A pr... 2026-04-03 05:32:45 -0700 df78a441-7fe5-42c5-af4e-9aaeb0cbdfda https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/colorado-appeals-court-orders-resentencing-for-tina-peters/ DENVER ‒ A Colorado appeals court ruled Thursday that a former county clerk convicted in a scheme that sought to prove fraud in the 2020 presidential election should be resentenced because a judge wro... 2026-04-02 10:32:44 -0700 bf351bee-3bf1-45db-8f93-9579242f431d https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/gov-polis-loses-again-in-case-about-his-attempted-compliance-with-ice-subpoena/ A lawsuit filed against Gov. Jared Polis after he attempted to comply with a subpoena from federal immigration officials will continue despite the governor’s efforts to get the case dismissed, a Denve... 2026-03-30 08:57:31 -0700 ba139e15-939a-4277-8575-d399745dfd2f https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/hickenlooper-investments-raise-questions-amid-push-to-ban-congressional-stock-trading/ John Hickenlooper, the junior senator from Colorado, has left management of his stock portfolio to a third party to avoid conflicts of interest since he became mayor of Denver in 2003. But since being... 2026-03-30 02:10:35 -0700 186450ca-7213-4ed8-a245-7f3840ae43d3 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/health-care-costs-in-colorado-will-grow-under-federal-policy-patient-advocates-say/ Patients and health care providers in Colorado on Tuesday expressed anxiety around high health care costs as a result of the Trump administration’s policies. At a virtual roundtable hosted by Healthie... 2026-03-30 02:04:41 -0700 eb9a344a-4769-4a12-9cba-972a9d6d1c68 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/as-the-blm-in-moab-opens-hundreds-of-miles-of-trails-to-e-bikes-colorado-land-managers-also-weigh-e/ Brian Martinez recently went out for a pedal near his home in Moab. He was on his mountain bike and saw a grandfather on an e-bike pedaling alongside his son and grandson. “They had found that fleetin... 2026-03-30 02:03:16 -0700 b5263743-46f8-407a-a275-f3f5fd7f5bbd https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/the-blotter-march-13-24/ La Plata County Sheriff’s Office March 13 6:54 a.m. A man was being combative on East Animas Road (County Road 250). 11:13 a.m. Someone was putting stickers with hateful messaging on a light... 2026-03-24 04:16:56 -0700 8e329311-6aa5-425c-93c5-981c42d48487