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Mountain bikes and wilderness: ‘Must we get everything in the outdoors?’

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.” — Wallace Stegner The goal of the Wilderness Act, now celebrating its 60th birthday, wa...

DATE: Jul 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Room assignments unclear for ‘throuple’

DEAR ABBY: My 25-year-old son lives with his two girlfriends, who are also romantically involved with each other. They share a single bedroom. One of them has a baby due this week, and the o...

DATE: Jul 23, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Action Line’s e-bike trail primer

Dear Action Line: I am ecstatic to finally get an e-bike and continue to ride all the beautiful trails in Durango. But I was sadly disappointed that I cannot actually ride my pedal-assis...

DATE: Jul 22, 2024 | CATEGORY: Action Line

No time can mean the best time

Time in rodeo and life is what you make of it

DATE: Jul 21, 2024 | CATEGORY: Sports

‘Far better ways to gather, sort’ mustangs

An enduring symbol, the mustang, symbolizes the largely mythological vision of the West as a place that is wild and free, similar to the eagle and the bison. The word comes from the Spanish ...

DATE: Jul 21, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Dad’s new wife offers sketchy advice

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I had a baby right around the time my father remarried. I didn’t know my new stepmother very well when she started giving me parenting advice. The issue is, her con...

DATE: Jul 20, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

When the cards you’re dealt aren’t great, hedge your bets

During the growing season of 2021, things got a little dicey here in Southwest Colorado. The winter prior, snow levels were slightly below average, which is not that unusual anymore. “Abnorm...

DATE: Jul 19, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Advocates urge Dolores River review

Before the completion of McPhee Dam in 1984, the Dolores River was prized for its whitewater recreation. River advocates called the Dolores “a national treasure that ought to be preserved,” ...

DATE: Jul 19, 2024 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

Learning about the Milky Way

Greetings, stargazers. The Milky Way is a barred-spiral galaxy about 100,000 light years in diameter, but only about 1,000 light years thick. It contains more than 100 billion stars, and som...

DATE: Jul 19, 2024 | CATEGORY: What's up in Durango Skies

Our schools are shabby here, across the nation

Have you ever cleaned your home’s carpets and been shocked by the gunk that comes out? Now, imagine hundreds of little shoes stomping on the same school hallway carpet, year after year. Try...

DATE: Jul 19, 2024 | CATEGORY: Columnists

Your dog is talking, are you listening?

Humans often rely on verbal communication, but to truly understand our dogs, we must learn to interpret their nonverbal cues. Dogs communicate their thoughts and emotions through body langua...

DATE: Jul 19, 2024 | CATEGORY: From the Humane Society

Troubling memories about dad haunt daughter

DEAR ABBY: When I was young and even as I grew older, my father touched me inappropriately. It made me uncomfortable even as an adult. I feel like when I was very small, something more may h...

DATE: Jul 19, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Photos: Durango High School basketball teams lose to Montrose High School

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday