The No. 3 seeded Durango High School girls basketball team trailed No. 30 Bear Creek 24-20 heading into the fourth quarter in the first round of the Class 5A state playoffs on Tuesday at DHS. In the ...

A new, statewide office is seeking justice for Indigenous victims of violence in Colorado. In November, Arron Julian became the director of Colorado’s Office of Liaison for Missing or Murdered Indigen...

All of the snow we got in January sure has been a sight! Perhaps you’ve watched your dog happily run out into the white wonderland, only to promptly drop from sight in fresh heaps of powder. Have you ...

Fruita Monument is one of only two teams that managed to beat the Durango High School girls basketball team this season. On Saturday at DHS, with the 5A/6A Southwestern League title on the line, the D...

SILVERTON – By 11 a.m. Saturday, Silverton appeared, in part, to have regressed a century. Wrangler-clad riders on horseback rode up and down the streets of the historic mining town. At the south end ...

Every great story begins with a hero. In this story, our hero wears a pocket watch, vest and bow tie. He plays ragtime piano until the strings ignite the very air above it. And his superpower? Keepin...

This Valentine’s Day, The Durango Herald played Cupid. We contacted people from opposing viewpoints on controversial topics to see if the leaders of those movements could come together in a reasonabl...

News literacy is ​the ability to recognize the standards of fact-based news in order to trust, share and act on accurate information. In this digital age where information spreads like wildfire, it is...

HESPERUS – Chuck Hare recalls grabbing the rope tow and being pulled 30 mph up the snowy slope – about as fast as he’d come down it. In those days, the rope tow ran off the rear axle of a Chevrolet pi...