Durango residents who need to get rid of any unused or expired prescription medications can safely do so next weekend. The Drug Enforcement Agency and the Durango Police Department will accept medicat...

At 75 years old, J.C. Trujillo can still feel the moment he became a rodeo cowboy. He was 6. He remembers his first calf-riding competition for kids “as clear as day,” he said. “I was scared as you co...

A decade ago, Jim and Daphne Myers opened a small grocery store in Bailey, about an hour west of Denver, just off U.S. Highway 285. Business was slow from the start. Foot traffic was hard to come by i...

The Durango Demons started dominating the Eagle Valley Devils soon after the opening whistle blew. Just two plays in, to be exact. On that second play, quarterback Tyler Harms threw a beautiful deep b...

There is an old adage that says for every problem, there is a solution that is simple, easy – and wrong. And there is a lot of truth to that. It does not follow, however, that all valid solutions must...

A 27-year-old man who was speed flying, a form of paragliding, crashed Friday morning on Smelter Mountain near downtown Durango. The man, identified as Sean Englund, was complaining of severe back pai...

If you directly message Anton Hjalmarsson, don’t expect a quick response. It wasn’t too long ago when the Fort Lewis freshman forward had a totally different path set up. After Hjalmarsson graduated h...