SILVERTON – The streets of Silverton buzz with summer tourists in late July. Passengers disembark from the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, duck into gift shops, sip beers at saloons and sna...

Colorado has gradually been subsumed by leftists from blue states, most heavily along the front range and in Southwest Colorado. The now Democrat-controlled state Legislature has voted woke and anti-g...

The editorial “War on History” (Herald, July 16) calls out an alarming trend: efforts to erase or rewrite difficult truths about our nation’s past. President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Restoring...

The tragedy earlier this year involving an unleashed dog and a cyclist has led to new signs along the Animas River Trail, and hopefully to more thoughtful usage of that shared space. How about applyin...

When I was elected to Congress, I promised to bring rural Colorado’s voice to Washington and to make sure our communities – especially those often overlooked – would be heard. That’s why I’m honored t...

When I caught The Durango Herald’s story on the Elkhorn fire, I was blown away by Jerry McBride’s photos documenting the fire and our firefighting heroes who face the danger on our behalf to save prop...

Everything I was brought up to be has been insulted, sneered at, and trashed by the current Trump-MAGA-GOP. They seem to aspire to evil: “Tell the truth” – Ha! The amount of lying from Trump and h...

I would like to comment on the article, “In American life, a growing and forbidding visual rises: The law-enforcement officer in a mask,” (Herald, Jul. 18). It's about immigration enforcement agents w...

Unless we’re pulled over, have an emergency, or get lost in the mountains, most of us rarely interact with local law enforcement, EMS workers, firefighters, or Search & Rescue volunteers. We’re glad t...