In the next year or so, the Mancos Creative District plans to raise enough money to purchase the historic opera house in downtown Mancos. The district has long been interested in the space, and in usi...

Its time for Durango residents to polish up on their state history because Snowdown 2026 will be celebrating 150 years of Colorado. Keeping with tradition, the theme for Durango’s annual winter carni...

Recently, at a New Year’s Day football game watch party, I was asked by someone what I wear to fly fish when the air temperature is 32 degrees. The answer to that question was a golf shirt, sweatpant...

I experienced a wake-up call this past week when I had an abnormal imaging study. I was referred to CommonSpirit Mercy Hospital Breast Care Center in Durango for a procedure. I was given an appointmen...

After 31 years greeting customers at Albertsons, Mike Rustad punched the clock one last time on Thursday, not to work, but to enjoy his goodbye party. At 65, Rustad has been in Durango for over 40 ye...

Thank you, Kathy Fackler for your column, “The Inflation Reduction Act invests in energy, water, and rural America,” (Herald, Jan. 24). After the inauguration, President Donald Trump signed an execut...

The words from Trump at his inaugural address will truly ring true. He may have just said, “the Gilded Age begins now,” as that is what is ahead. Greedy, insatiable tech barons seated at his throne i...

According to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s book, “The Real Anthony Fauci,” Dr. Fauci has altered the study protocols to give his pet drug “remdesivir,” which RFK states has proved worthless against COVID-19...

Here’s another update from the Capitol! It’s been a cold January, but there’s been snow on the ground here in Denver that’s needed on the Western Slope. Every year, legislators spend the first three w...

Recent letters by John Gallup (Herald, Jan. 17) and Ian Root (Herald, Jan. 17), got me to thinking, and wondering why the American flag is so prominently displayed in so many U.S. churches. While Cath...