DENVER (AP) — Xcel Energy expects to pay about $640 million to settle lawsuits alleging it was responsible for starting Colorado’s most destructive wildfire that killed two people and destroyed nearly...

Flutist Rochelle Mann will add something special to the annual Fort Lewis College Faculty Showcase on Sunday. Professor emerita and former chair of the music department, Mann carries with her the long...

After more than a year of work behind the scenes, it’s official: The mountain bike world championships are coming back to Durango. The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the cycling world’s governi...

The White House is telling agencies to prepare large-scale firings of federal workers if the government shuts down next week. In a memo released Wednesday night, the Office of Management and Budget sa...

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses world leaders at the United Nations on Friday, it will be at the helm of a country that is increasingly being treated as a pariah, even by some...

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court on Thursday sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance his 2007 campaig...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's first radar images from a new Earth-mapping satellite show the Maine coast and North Dakota farmland in incredible detail. The pictures, released Thursday, are from ...

Starbucks said Thursday it's closing hundreds of stores in the U.S., Canada and Europe and laying off 900 nonretail employees as it focuses more of its resources on a turnaround. The Seattle coffee gi...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel struck houses and tents in central and southern Gaza Thursday, crushing families inside and killing at least 17 people, including 10 children and three women, l...

A Durango man arrested earlier this year on suspicion of firing a gunshot through a window at the Durango Community Recreation Center was released from custody after being found incompetent to stand t...