About 80 people participated in last week’s quiz. Participants scored highest on a question about the name of the 19 steel panels that depicted iconic features of Durango, with 93% of respondents corr...

Holy moley frijoles! That was Ignacio football head coach Alfonso ‘Ponch’ Garcia’s assessment Wednesday of the Bobcats’ first football foe in 2023: North Fork. NFHS is a combination of Western Slope f...

A recent analysis done by La Plata Economic Development Alliance shows there may be skill-set gaps in Southwest Colorado’s workforce. Fort Lewis College and La Plata Economic Development Alliance hav...

According to 11th-year Bayfield cross-country head coach Josh Walton, just two runners managed to track their summertime training mileage. Both reached or exceeded 100 miles. And both are incoming fre...

Though many of her returning runners are familiar with features like ‘Yogi Hill’ and ‘Boo Boo Hill’ on the rugged, forested race route geographically north of, and topographically situated above Dolor...

Olde Tymer’s Cafe announced that it closed permanently earlier this month. The Durango restaurant, which first opened in 1981, on Aug. 5 put a sign on its door that it had closed. Facebook posts by th...

Brennan Buiso returned from the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships last week in Scotland with a bronze medal, but also a broken heel and bruised up body. The Durango BMX racer competed in both the ...

The Durango High School boys golf team on Tuesday got to compete on the course where the Class 4A state championships will be held this season, the Jack Nicklaus-designed Bridges Golf and Country Club...

Support for public lands and natural resource conservation in the West tends to eclipse political affiliation, with a steadily growing number of Colorado voters supporting increased federal protection...

Durango Police Department Wednesday 9:13 a.m. A person at Whitney Auto Sales, 907 Camino del Rio, was arrested on suspicion of trespassing. 12:26 p.m. A two-car side swipe crash near the inte...