On Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel said there’s no clear evidence that a reformulated version of the painkiller OxyContin designed to discourage abuse…
The Eli Lilly corporate headquarters is pictured April 26, 2017, in Indianapolis. A drug company says that adding an anti-inflammatory medicine to a drug already widely used for hospitalized COVID-19…
On Sept. 29, 1908, a fire started in Lamb’s Grocery on Main Street in downtown Cortez. It quickly grew, and besides the grocery, it consumed a butcher shop, the Clifton…
The first comes from Snoop Dogg, the rapper, who joined the cavalcade of celebrities slapping their names on wine labels earlier this year with 19 Crimes Snoop Cali Red, a…
Scientists say climate-connected disasters expected to worsen in coming decades
Children play “pin the mask on Gov. Gary Herbert” on Sept. 5, 2020, during a “Trash Your Mask Protest” rally hosted by the Utah Business Revival at the Utah State…
A researcher holds vape pens in a laboratory in Portland, Ore. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released on Sept. 9, 2020, vaping rates among U.S.…
Brittany and Rodney Bird, Farmington, Lincoln James, 7 pounds 3 ounces, 10:40 p.m. June 2. Jessica and Daniel Valdez, Pagosa Springs, Quinlyn Grace, 4 pounds 13 ounces, 1:40 p.m. June…
The Powerhouse will plant a tree that local astronaut Stuart Roosa took with him around the moon and back at 11 a.m. Saturday on The Powerhouse plaza and virtually on…
Registration is open to all. To sign up, visit Durango Elks Lodge, 901East Second Avenue. Nonmembers may ring the buzzer for admittance. Tee times begin at 9 a.m. and cost…
Needed items include warm boots, socks, blankets or sleeping bags and tarps. For more information or to schedule a pickup, call 799-1465.
Lake Powell is viewed behind Glen Canyon Dam near Page, Ariz. Six states in the U.S. West that rely on the Colorado River to sustain cities and farms rebuked a…
Fried Green Tomatoes.Laura Chase de Formigny/Washington Post That’s how I felt about fried green tomatoes. Despite having lived most of my life in Virginia, the Southern staple was not something…
Genetic researcher He Jiankui arrives for the Human Genome Editing Conference in Hong Kong. A new report from an international commission of scientists sets criteria for when altering genes in…
“There are always people. Always,” De fauw said. That morning? “Nothing. Nobody is on that large square” at the heart of one of Europe’s most picturesque cities, he said. Six…
Just seven years before this picture was taken, the 13-year American experiment of Prohibition ended. The National Prohibition Act banned the manufacture, storage, transportation, sale, possession and consumption of alcoholic…
Marylou Ligier takes a to-go order to a patron at her family’s restaurant and pastry shop Clafoutis on Aug. 24 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. An outdoor tent, seen in…
So, turn off your television and radio for a while, pour yourself a glass of your favorite vino and curl up with one of these beauties. Ever dream of living…
Kudos to the promoters, and all of the staff at the location. Everyone working the event was super friendly, super nice and it was very well organized. Just an overall…
The Community Foundation amplified regional generosity with some amazing partners that provided matching gifts, including the Ballantine Family Fund, Alpine Bank, Bank of Colorado, Bank of the San Juans, First…
Because of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s material quarantine regulations, the library must quarantine everything entering the library for three days. Logs must be turned in by Sept.…
All candidates running will be invited. For more information, contact Dorothy Porter at 565-8640.
The library will host these virtual events in September: 6-7 p.m. Sept. 11: Author talk with Bruce Berlin. He will discuss his book “Breaking Big Money’s Grip on America.” The…
Events were organized by the Southwest Colorado Humanities Roundtable, a regional collaborative of nonprofit organizations that produces public humanities programs. The programming lineup includes: PIVOT: Skateboard Deck Art: Center for…
Tune will discuss “recent developments in the settlement of the Americas.” He will review controversial research published over the last 12 months and its implications for understanding the early human…
But foresters say it should still be a good show
Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies during a House Subcommittee hearing on the Coronavirus crisis, Friday, July 31, 2020 on Capitol Hill in…
A bottle and box for dexamethasone in a pharmacy in Omaha, Neb. New studies confirm that cheap steroid drugs improved survival for severely ill COVID-19 patients, cementing this as a…
