New research may help tens of thousands of women each year avoid being overtreated for breast cancer by reducing the reliance on chemotherapy and radiation.Associated Press file The research is…
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Information on this photograph said “Charles Naegelin and his blacksmith and wagon shop. Came to Durango in 1874.”Courtesy of Animas Museum 75 years ago: “‘Pneumonia Control’ will be the topic…
Coy Mathis, left, a transgender girl, plays with her sister, Auri, 2, at their home in Fountain. In June, the Colorado Division of Civil Rights ruled that a suburban Colorado…
75 years ago: “Work on the manual training room addition to Smiley Junior High School will begin Dec. 19, the WPA regional authorities at Fort Worth, Texas has approved the…
The Durango Herald will publish a schedule of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services in its Dec. 21 edition. Churches should submit their schedules by 5 p.m. Thursday. Email Ann…
Chaz Stevens, an athiest, erected a Festivus pole made of beer cans at the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee to protest a Nativity scene there. Florida considers the Statehouse rotunda to…
75 years ago: “Business in Durango is booming, with a surge of Christmas buying bringing the daily volume above that of the same period in 1937, a survey of Durango…
75 years ago: An advertisement for La Plata Motor Inc. read: “Our Christmas gift to you free with each car sold for $100 or more 20 gallons of gas. See…
“You’re so nice,” said Heidi Moy, 20 and an occupational therapy major from Stony Point, N.Y., as she patted one of the therapy dogs brought to campus last week as…
Treat your holiday guests to Cranberry-Mint Infused Margaritas that are sweetened with agave nectar instead of cane sugar.Matthew Mead/Associated Press As festive as it is to offer a delicious cocktail…
Topher Webb, owner of Mezzo Chocolate, is a rising star in Utah’s burgeoning chocolate industry.Tom Smart/The Deseret News “It is almost like being on a roller coaster,” he said. “Clack,…
Italian sisters Francesca, left, and Elisabetta Grillo, right, former personal assistants to English broadcaster Nigella Lawson and her former husband art collector Charles Saatchi, leave the Isleworth Crown Court on…
75 years ago: “Animas City, practically a residential portion of Durango, is absolutely without a sewer system, and well neigh without a water system. Yet when opportunity to remedy such…
75 years ago: “Arthur C. Fassbinder passed away. In 1975, still six years before the founding of the city, Art, a 14-year-old boy, came to the present site of Durango…
Since mid-November, four students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have contracted the dangerous type of bacterial meningitis known as strain B, and one of them had to have…
A Durango Veterans Acupuncture Clinic will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Mondays and from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursdays at 635 East Fifth Ave. This is a free,…
Ken and Abigail Ernst conceived their 2-month-old daughter, Lucy, using only one embryo through in vitro fertilization. Now that about half of all babies born using advanced fertility help are…
The decision was in response to a warning letter sent by the agency two weeks ago saying that the genetic test was a medical device that requires approval. “We remain…
The number of babies born last year only slipped a little, and preliminary government figures released Friday indicate that trend continued through the first six months of this year. U.S.…
Texas man’s life transformed after surgery
75 years ago: “Raymond B. Whitlock of Colorado Springs was the low bidder on the project for building an addition on the new Smiley Junior High School. The contract has…
Aspen Art Museum The Aspen Art Museum hosts a steady rotation of exhibits of contemporary art from around the world, and it doesn’t cost a thing to see them. The…
