A few years back, my friend Norm told me that when he was growing up in northern New Mexico in the 1950s and early ‘60s, his family often drove up to the La Plata Mountains in southwestern Colorado. F...

The arrest and federal indictment of former Escalante Middle School teacher Ben Smith – now facing 48 felony charges related to the enticement of minors and possession of child pornography – is one of...

Asa Vermette won and lost at the 2025 USA Cycling Gravity Mountain Bike National Championships. The Durango downhill star finished ninth in the elite men’s downhill national championship at Big Bear ...

When Bayfield High School football head coach Glenn Wallace’s child entered the world, he had a decision to make. Should he stay and help foster the growth of the program, particularly after overseei...

Construction began last week on the College and Eighth Road Diet safety project, which aims to reduce College Drive from four lanes to three lanes, add improved pedestrian crossings and transit stop p...

EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — Harrison Smith, just like anyone approaching middle age, has learned to accept the realities of getting older. The joints, for one, don't quite move as effortlessly as they once di...

BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Shedeur Sanders didn’t have time to be sad while his father battled bladder cancer during the spring. Instead, Deion Sanders’ message was clear and direct as his son prepared for hi...

Durango Police Department July 28 8:21 a.m. Officers responded to a trash truck that caught fire on U.S. Highway 160 east near Golden Equipment. July 29 7:11 a.m. Someone reported that a man ...

About 50 Durango residents lined the sidewalks on the 1700 block of Main Avenue on Saturday for “Rage Against the Regime,” Indivisible Durango’s latest protest against the Trump administration. The na...

Firefighters are working to gain control over several lightning-caused wildfires that by Tuesday morning had burned across nearly 21,000 acres in northwestern Colorado. The fires sparked over the week...