A Farmington elementary school teacher was placed on administrative leave after being charged with battery of a fourth grade student. Kathleen Kern, 33, of Aztec, was charged with a misdemeanor batter...

The Silverton Standard and The Miner – a bastion of local news in San Juan County – has been sold. DeAnne Gallegos, a third-generation Silvertonian, purchased the weekly periodical for an undiscl...

With rural newsrooms nationwide struggling, a push to fund local news infrastructure comes from Press Forward, a coalition of national funders, including foundations like the MacArthur Foundation and ...

Durango High School winter sports teams are more than halfway through their seasons. League play is underway and playoffs will be here in no time. Therefore, it’s a good time to look at where the girl...

The city of Durango suffered a legal setback Wednesday after a judge ruled against the city on a motion that would have forced La Plata County Sheriff Sean Smith to accept municipal inmates in the cou...

The Durango boys and girls wrestling teams continue to prepare for the regional and state championships with tough competition. Last weekend, the Demons went to the Doc Wright Invitational, one of the...

The city of Durango has filed a second lawsuit over its jail dispute with La Plata County and Sheriff Sean Smith, this time naming county commissioners Clyde Church, Marsha Porter-Norton and Matt Salk...

Start counting that Monopoly money because it’s time for Snowdown, the Board Game edition. Beginning Friday, people will have the opportunity to beat the winter blues as Durango’s annual winter carni...