Lifestyle - The Durango Herald

City gardens, public produce stands ease ‘food desert’ woes

Large cities across country taking multipronged approach to bringing healthy nutrition into neighborhoods

DATE: Jan 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

How to choose the right type of salt for your recipe

In a world history of food and cooking, salt is the most universal ingredient. Sweet, savory, meat, vegetable, in the background or in your face, there is salt. “Salt is the singl...

DATE: Jan 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Bighorn sheep research project to continue in Weminuche Wilderness

To gain a better understanding of wild Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in the Weminuche Wilderness, Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the U.S. Forest Service will continue their efforts on a five...

DATE: Jan 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Wildlife officials find evidence of wolves in Colorado

DENVER – Wildlife officials have discovered evidence of wolves living in northwestern Colorado after hunters reported a suspected pack and residents found a scavenged elk carcass. ...

DATE: Jan 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Check out these nostalgic flavors from the San Luis valley

Antonito High School cookbook evokes Southern Colorado flavors

DATE: Jan 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Methodists propose split in gay marriage, clergy impasse

Conservative churches would form new denomination

DATE: Jan 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Religion

New device in New Mexico turns back clock on astronomy

SANTA FE – A newly forged steel instrument that can pinpoint the path of stars and planets across the night sky using the naked eye is a throwback to the years just before the advent of tele...

DATE: Jan 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Lake Nighthorse changing the game for annual bird count

New body of water affects birds’ behavior

DATE: Jan 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

5 worldly ways to beat a hangover, from pickled herring to Scotland’s famous soda

So much of the human experience is universal: love, loss, joy . . . and hangovers. Mankind all over the globe has grappled with the morning-after effects of booze since our ancest...

DATE: Jan 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Cool camping for just $18 night at Mancos igloo

Parks and Wildlife builds structure for winter campers

DATE: Jan 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Year-end violence highlights danger of worshipping

NEW YORK – When a machete-wielding attacker walked into a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, during Hanukkah and a gunman fired on worshippers at a Texas church 14 hours later, the two congre...

DATE: Jan 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Religion

San Juan Basin Archaeological Society to meet

The public is invited to the next meeting of the San Juan Basin Archaeological Society at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College. There will be a social be...

DATE: Jan 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life