La Plata County appears ready to end its 30-year agreement with the city of Durango to hold municipal inmates at the La Plata County Jailafter 30 years of cooperation. La Plata County commissioners wi...

It’s Colorado tradition for folks to head to the mountains and national forests for their Christmas trees around this time of year. But for some others? Well, they look no further than their own backy...

Forget the pandemic boom in marijuana sales – Colorado now collects fewer marijuana tax dollars than it did in 2018. About half the country now has joined Colorado in legalizing recreational marijuana...

It’s such a bother when politicians have to go and complicate your clean narrative about why they’re succeeding. Last week, I spoke to Jared Polis, the Democratic governor of Colorado. Polis’ state wa...

Colorado U.S. Rep.-elect Jeff Hurd, who will represent Colorado’s sprawling 3rd Congressional District when he’s sworn into office in January, is ready to help return the Bureau of Land Management hea...

True: Fluoride is a naturally occurring mineral. False: The fluoride used in Durango is natural. In Durango, we add the toxic, unpurified, industrial waste product from aluminum manufacturing plants i...

As a retired 9-R educator with 30 years of elementary teaching experience, I write in support of a policy prohibiting the display of political symbols in 9-R schools, except at authorized events. This...

I heard a comment that Trump and MAGA are the new normal. In every way, 100%, no. I aim to defy them at every step. The corporate media equivocate and normalize, a monstrous disloyalty to everyone. We...

I found the opinion piece by the former chairman of La Plata County Democrats tone deaf in the extreme. The first half detailed all the accomplishments of the Biden administration that the majority of...