Lifestyle - The Durango Herald

Americans are drinking more ‘gourmet’ coffee. This doesn’t mean they’re drinking great coffee.

The National Coffee Association USA recently dropped its annual survey results, and, as usual, there’s a wealth of information to sift through to better understand the state of coffee drinki...

DATE: Apr 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Action demanded after 1,100 dead dolphins wash up in France

PARIS – The dolphins’ bodies were horribly mutilated, the fins cut off. But what shocked French marine researchers wasn’t just the brutality of the deaths of these highly intellig...

DATE: Apr 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Let good-quality canned tuna anchor this crunchy Mediterranean salad

While making this salad for lunch recently, my umpteenth time over the years, it dawned on me that I should share it with you. I suppose I had not thought to do so before because it never se...

DATE: Apr 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Above-average snowpack expected to fill McPhee Reservoir

Strong runoff increases chance for boating on Dolores River

DATE: Mar 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

For Native Americans, U.S.-Mexico border is an ‘imaginary line’

Immigration restrictions were making life difficult for Native Americans who live along – and across – the U.S.-Mexico border even before President Donald Trump declared a national emergency...

DATE: Mar 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Once sanctuaries, houses of worship struggle with security

DETROIT – A rabbi who packs a gun. A church installing security cameras. A police car protecting a mosque. Houses of worship have traditionally been places of refuge where strange...

DATE: Mar 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Religion

BLM seeks volunteers to build Sand Canyon trail

Trail will link to Sand Canyon

DATE: Mar 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Arizona Sen. McSally promises swift action on drought plan

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – U.S. Sen. Martha McSally vowed Wednesday to take quick action on a plan to preserve the drought-stricken Colorado River, which serves about 40 million people in the U.S. W...

DATE: Mar 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Four Corners Back Country Horsemen to host tack sale

Four Corners Back Country Horsemen will host a tack and horse equipment consignment sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 6 at the La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave. Admissio...

DATE: Mar 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Apple tree grafting workshop to be held in Hesperus

The Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project will offer a grafting workshop from 10 a.m. to noon April 6 at the historic Old Fort Library, 18683 Colorado Highway 140, in Hesperus. T...

DATE: Mar 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Archaeology talk in Cortez to address kivas

As a part of the Four Corners Lecture Series, Chuck Riggs will present “Secular and Sacred: Evaluating Kiva Function in the Mesa Verde Region” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the First United Methodist...

DATE: Mar 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life