Lifestyle - The Durango Herald

Alaska university taking PB&J as payment for parking tickets

ANCHORAGE, Alaska â€“ What a lip-smacking offer! Anyone with unpaid parking fines at the University of Alaska Anchorage campus has the option to reduce or cover the cost of their ...

DATE: Nov 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Proposal seeks to modernize campgrounds at national parks

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Food trucks. Wi-Fi. Hot showers. Those campground upgrades could be coming to a national park near you. The Interior Department is reviewing recommen...

DATE: Nov 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

New Mexico farmer, writer starts a global garlic war

Dixon author and farmer takes on international spice firm

DATE: Nov 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Utah taps out on low-alcohol beer sales

SALT LAKE CITY – The first change to beer alcohol limits since the end of Prohibition nearly a century ago just came to Utah. The state became the next-to-last in the country to s...

DATE: Nov 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Tastes great, less land-filling ... beer in a paper bottle

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Danish brewer Carlsberg says it is developing a paper beer bottle made from sustainably sourced wood fibers. The Copenhagen-based company earlier this month ...

DATE: Nov 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

This pasta dish combines the best elements of a fall cheese plate into every bowl

Fruit adds something special to savory dishes: a generous dose of seasonality. We can get so many fruits year-round, but when they’re at their in-season peak, there’s nothing like, say, citr...

DATE: Nov 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Colorado fossil trove shows life’s fast recovery after massive extinction

NEW YORK – A remarkable trove of fossils from Colorado has revealed details of how mammals grew larger and plants evolved after the cataclysm that killed the dinosaurs. The thousa...

DATE: Nov 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Mesa Verde National Park license plates now available

Money will help maintain, improve park

DATE: Nov 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Fundamentalism turns 100, a landmark for the Christian Right

These days, the term “fundamentalism” is often associated with a militant form of Islam. But the original fundamentalist movement was actually Christian. And it was born in the U...

DATE: Nov 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Religion

Family members of Navajo uranium miners find remnants of old home sites

SLICK ROCK (AP) – Across the gravel road from the Burro No. 7 Mine in Southwest Colorado, the Dolores River rolls by, framed by the tall reeds overgrowing her banks. Waste material from the ...

DATE: Nov 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

When Halloween’s over, don’t pitch your pumpkins

To reduce landfill waste, compost that holiday gourd

DATE: Oct 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

San Juan Mountains Association seeks volunteers for Christmas tree lot

San Juan Mountains Association is seeking volunteers for the Christmas tree lot and local tree cutting on Nov. 22. Volunteers will cut and haul 220 white fir trees along the Junct...

DATE: Oct 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life