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Dutch ovens, cowboy hats and biscuits: Chuckwagon dinner returns to La Plata County

Cattlemen's association hosts 23rd annual community cookout

DATE: Aug 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

There are more angry drivers on Colorado’s roads – and experts see a lot of things to blame

More than half of all calls made to Colorado State Patrol are tied to hostile conditions on the road. In 2024, the organization’s emergency dispatchers answered 54,956 total calls. Fifty-six...

DATE: May 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: Regional News

How the food pyramid is sabotaging your weight and health

Are you working hard to lose weight and get healthy – but not seeing results? Well, listen up: It’s not your fault. The problem could be the old advice you’re still following. For years, the...

DATE: Apr 14, 2025 | CATEGORY: Strength in Well-being

Temperature, energy and the light spectrum

Greetings, stargazers. Spring is galaxy season for many amateur astronomers. However, when looking through an eyepiece instead of a camera for astrophotography, you might think of this as th...

DATE: Apr 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: What's up in Durango Skies

Argentines flock to budget-friendly beaches in neighboring countries

VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile – On a recent hot summer day in Chile, the beaches of Viña del Mar, Concón and Reñaca are packed with holidaymakers sharing yerba mate teas and playing ball. Others mill ...

DATE: Mar 19, 2025 | CATEGORY: Travel

What makes a Colorado park a park?

Colorado has a lot of well-known national parks. Mesa Verde, Rocky Mountain, Great Sand Dunes. And it has dozens of state and regional parks. They’re all easy to find on a map. But then, the...

DATE: Mar 19, 2025 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

A Southwest Colorado town has carved itself into a snowboarder’s paradise

Silverton Mountain's stable of guides have proved their boards are efficient guiding tools, defying decades of ski-only history.

DATE: Mar 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Into the Amazon: Savage universe of unfathomable Beauty

“If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.” ...

DATE: Mar 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Travel

From goals to habits: How SMART goals can transform your health

The New Year is already in the rearview – are your health goals keeping up? I’ve heard the same thing repeatedly from clients: “I know what to do, but I just don’t do it.” Sound familiar? We...

DATE: Mar 10, 2025 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Charles Hakes: Practicing astronomy in the time shift

Greetings, stargazers. Today we can all say a fond farewell to Mountain Standard Time while we spend at least the next few months living in the Central Standard Time zone. Or at least that i...

DATE: Mar 9, 2025 | CATEGORY: What's up in Durango Skies

Historic Hubbell Trading Post

In 1878, a decade after Navajos returned from the Long Walk and their forced imprisonment at Fort Sumner, John Lorenzo Hubbell established a trading post at Ganado, Arizona. He would come to...

DATE: Mar 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Seeds, seeds, everywhere seeds!

You must forgive me for getting ahead of myself, but when the sky is this blue and the air is over 60 degrees, all I want to do is sit on the porch in sandals and peruse the seed catalogs th...

DATE: Mar 4, 2025 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office