NEW YORK – Never say never! Justin Bieber surprised fans Friday by releasing “Swag,” his seventh studio album, hours after he teased it on billboards and social media posts. It is his first album sinc...

Three wildfires were likely to blame for the smoky conditions Friday across Southwest Colorado, according to the National Weather Service in Grand Junction. One of those fires was the Deer Creek Fire ...

Nearly 150 runners. Almost 33,200 feet of vertical climbing. A grueling 102 miles through rugged terrain and extreme altitude of the San Juan Mountains. The starting gun is set to go off at 6 a.m. to...

I have lived in Colorado for 42 years now, 37 of those in Durango after an initial five-year stop in Colorado Springs. Not a native, but not bad. We’ve all heard of people in Durango who were actually...

In spring 2010, I sat down with friends at Alpine Bank, and we hatched a plan: What if we brought the music of the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College to the heart of downtown Durango? What i...

The abomination that is the Florida detention center is a clear misnomer. Alligator Alcatraz? The prisoners of Alcatraz were give due process; they had the right to counsel and a trial by jury. A mor...

In January, Donald Trump declared war – not on a foreign adversary, but on the institutions that make American democracy work. With the stroke of a pen, he laid off tens of thousands of neutral civil ...

With all the confusion and unverified claims flying around the so-called “Big, Wonderful Bill,” as President Donald Trump calls it, I’m hoping Hope Scheppelman or someone from the La Plata County Repu...