Every weekday, more than 25 million children across the United States ride the bus to school – and before long, environmental advocates hope, most of them will be riding in battery-powered, zero-emiss...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS – When Smartwool announced plans to leave its founding headquarters for Denver in 2018, it left a lot of people scratching their heads. Not from the company’s merino wool, but for th...

As Durango grows, it places higher demand on city services, including streets, water and sewer. It also increases demand for city recreation amenities. In some cases, it creates competition over which...

Inflation is being felt everywhere. But for many, its bite is sharpest at the grocery store. Rising prices on food have forced shoppers to cut back, substitute, or even completely forgo certain items....

Rattlesnakes slithered out of their dens near Durango a little earlier this year than in previous years, and with an extended rattlesnake season, Riverview Animal Hospital has treated more bites from ...

Ricardo Trejo, a senior on Fort Lewis College’s cross-country team, said he didn’t know what to expect when he entered the Narbona Pass Classic 10K, a Native-centered race in New Mexico. The race, w...

Colorado’s U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper is pushing legislation that aims to make federal funding available to pay farmers and ranchers to voluntarily use less water by leaving their fields temporarily ...

The lawmakers who write Colorado’s budget are preparing to pare back some capital projects in the coming months as they contend with inflation straining a budget capped by the state’s Taxpayer’s Bill ...

Friends tell each other all kinds of things. So, this summer when a friend of San Miguel Sheriff Bill Masters remarked offhandedly that he’d get his department a helicopter, the sheriff dismissed it a...