Recently, O.D. Perry celebrated his 90th birthday. His family hosted a party. I was unable to attend. Yet, I would like to celebrate O.D. and Betty Perry. Now retired, they are very important to Fort ...

In the coming weeks, nearly 60 volunteers are fanning out all over the city of Durango in a citizens’ initiative petition for a Durango ordinance that prohibits masking of law enforcement officers, re...

I care about local government working well, openly, accurately and with collaboration between jurisdictions. As someone who served as a Bayfield town trustee and mayor pro tem for seven years and depu...

Lt. Ron Bakken, EMS coordinator for the FLMFPD, was one of the most capable and professional leaders this district has ever seen. Ron single-handedly saved the district from losing its state EMS licen...

A second consecutive year of below-average snowfall and above-average temperatures has firefighters across the Western United States concerned. In La Plata County, fire departments are anticipating a...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota and federal authorities are investigating the alleged beating of a Mexican citizen by immigration officers last month, seeking to identify what caused the eight skull frac...

LONDON (AP) — Fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files has landed on the gilded wood and plush red benches of Britain’s House of Lords. Parliament’s upper chamber is in the spotlight after former U.K. a...