Southwest Life

Photo: Downtown Football & Marching Band –1934

In the 1930s, football was played at this municipal field in downtown Durango. The field was located approximately where the…

Group to host food, clothing drive

There will also be drop-offs from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday at the same location. With winter coming, warm clothing,…

Free community education classes offered

Classes aim to provide residents knowledge and skills for safe practices during outdoor adventures or at home. Classes will be…

Cafe au Play opens toddler play areas

Hosted by Liza Tregillus from 9:30 a.m. to noon weekdays, and by volunteer parents Saturday mornings, parents and children are…

Too much candy: Man dies from eating bags of black licorice

A Massachusetts construction worker’s love of black licorice wound up costing him his life. Eating a bag and a half…

Finland deploys coronavirus-sniffing dogs at main airport

Sniffer dogs named K’ssi, left and Miina react with trainer Susanna Paavilainen at the Helsinki airport in Vantaa, Finland, on…

CDC changes, then retracts, web posting on how virus spreads

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield puts his mask back Sept. 16 after speaking at a…

Photo: Lucky Drive Inn – 1954

Look closely at this building that still exists in Durango today. Do you recognize it? If not, don’t feel too…

When will tourists return to Africa? Continent must guess

He’ll have to wait for the cows to have calves and for the calves to be old enough to sell…

CDC drops controversial testing advice that caused backlash

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield speaks Sept. 16 at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing…

Road Apple Rally mountain bike race goes virtual on 40th anniversary

While normally held the first Saturday in October, participants in this year’s race will need to use an app such…

Animas Valley Grange to host talk about fruit gleaning

This is a presentation by Good Food Collective and Table to Farm Compost. Good Food Collective will discuss its gleaning…

Durango Farmers Market to continue through October

The market is held every Saturday in the parking lot of TBK Bank across from the city of Durango Transit…

Cider collaboration to be released

Southwest Colorado Apple Heritage and Fort Lewis College The Old Fort will host a cider release of their collaboration, Old…

Study hints antibody drug may cut COVID-19 hospitalizations

Drug company Eli Lilly & Co. said Wednesday that partial results from a study testing an antibody drug in mild…

MGM Resorts adopts smoke-free policy for Vegas Strip casino

One of the last Las Vegas Strip resorts to reopen after coronavirus closures will be the first to be smoke-free,…

Experts: Revamped OxyContin hasn’t curbed abuse, overdoses

On Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel said there’s no clear evidence that a…

Anti-inflammatory drug may shorten COVID-19 recovery time

The Eli Lilly corporate headquarters is pictured April 26, 2017, in Indianapolis. A drug company says that adding an anti-inflammatory…

Photo: Cortez Fire Aftermath – 1908

On Sept. 29, 1908, a fire started in Lamb’s Grocery on Main Street in downtown Cortez. It quickly grew, and…

Virus throws theme park attendance for a loop

Across U.S., attendance lags

Study: Kids infected at day care spread coronavirus at home

Children play “pin the mask on Gov. Gary Herbert” on Sept. 5, 2020, during a “Trash Your Mask Protest” rally…

Big drop reported in vaping by U.S. teenagers

A researcher holds vape pens in a laboratory in Portland, Ore. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

Customer grateful to employees

Centura Health-Mercy Regional Medical Center announces June births

Brittany and Rodney Bird, Farmington, Lincoln James, 7 pounds 3 ounces, 10:40 p.m. June 2. Jessica and Daniel Valdez, Pagosa…