With the third week of January underway, local athletes are finally settling back into the groove of their sports after winter break. Many winter sports are coming up on the halfway points of their se...

After fierce winds whipped fire out of brush-covered hills on Jan. 7, entire Los Angeles neighborhoods burned down. Within a few days, more than 12,000 homes and businesses had been destroyed as flame...

GEM VILLAGE – The famed Billy Goat Saloon along U.S. Highway 160 – 2½ miles west of Bayfield – closed its doors in August. But it has made a quick return under a new name with familiar faces. The Lost...

The Durango High School boys and girls basketball teams finished the nonleague part of their schedules with wins at Pagosa Springs on Tuesday night. The similarities ended there. Durango’s girls squa...

SAN MIGUEL COUNTY – With 6:28 remaining in the second quarter Saturday afternoon, Bayfield girls basketball head coach Ben Martinez faced a predicament in which no head coach enjoys being pickled. Wit...

COLORADO SPRINGS – The Pikeview Quarry, barely outside of the cul-de-sacs and two-car garages of the Mountain Shadows subdivision, seemed like an odd place to find one of Colorado’s most intrepid spec...

Some high school and college athletes have a sophomore slump. Bayfield High School sophomore Abigail Robertson had a sophomore surge. Robertson was voted the top Wolverine fall athlete on durangoheral...

SAN MIGUEL COUNTY – If it appeared Saturday evening that Lincoln Williams was spending more time than usual playing defense … well, he may have been. That’s because he often didn’t have to run Bayfiel...

Durango’s overnight emergency warming center – a place where almost anyone can go for the night, but not technically to sleep – closed Friday after someone broke into the facility. Despite what the n...